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Google Talk April Fool?

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

Tuesday, April 1, 2008
16 years ago2,863 views

<< In honor of Earth Day (3 weeks from today: April 22, 2008), on that day our Google Talk servers will start automatically sending your conversations using IM-speak instead of normal words. But you can help save some computing power (and more wasted energy!) by shortening your conversations yourself. >>

http://googletalk.blogspot.com/2008/03/google-talk-goes-green.html

(I think the IM bot is actually based on technology they *need* if they're ever going to successfully translate IM messages though)

Colin Colehour [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

A great April Fool's joke for Google Talk would be the announcement of a mac client for GTalk.

Mrrix32 [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

OMG tht scks

It's not that good :-(it doesn't even understand "wtf"!

Rohit Srivastwa [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

BTW how many April fool jokes are there today

Gtalk
Google AU
Book search
Virgle
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Jérôme Flipo [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

bot's translation for Google: Gooooooogle. Why Google want Google to destroy my planet?? All those "o" for nothing but carbon!

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

> BTW how many April fool jokes are there today

Also:

Gmail: Custom Time
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/customtime/index.html

Google Docs: Airplane
http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dftvhrcj_285ccgzh4tq

Google Calendar: Google Wake Up Kit
http://www.google.com/googlecalendar/new_wakeup.html

(I guess we should have created one thread for April Fools but it would be too much work to merge them all now...)

Rohit Srivastwa [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

> Google Docs: Airplane
I wont call it an april fool
it can be any just-for-time-pass doc created by anyone.

Can we list all the April fool jokes at one place :)

Rohit Srivastwa [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Apologies for Google docs
didn't read it in detail, its nice though

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