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Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

Wednesday, April 1, 2009
15 years ago3,312 views

Reddit is showing in a Digg layout:
http://www.reddit.com/

Via Tony, Yahoo is introducing a new API limit calculation:
http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2009/04/considering_an.html

JEShack [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

Did you know that Wikipedia now has information about everything?

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

Can you explain?

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

Opera's face gestures... also posted in the other thread:
http://labs.opera.com/news/2009/04/01/

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

Opera face gestures: http://labs.opera.com/news/2009/04/01/

JEShack [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

http://blogoscoped.com/forum/152708.html#id152709
It was one of the Did you know's in Wikipedia on this day.

Search Engine Roundtable also welcomes you with BSOD or Kernel Panic:
http://www.seroundtable.com/

JEShack [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

We also had Kodak eyeCamera
http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=2/6868&pq-locale=en_US&_requestid=3207

Warner Brothers love PirateBay
http://thepiratebay.org/

Guardian will kill their prints and bring their articles to Twitter
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/apr/01/guardian-twitter-media-technology

WebSonic.nl [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/01/april-fools-youtube-flails-amazon-cloud-computing-in-a-blimp-3d-chrome-browsing-google-master-ai/

James Xuan [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

Is it just me or is blogoscoped making a "bing" noise every once in a while?

Feels like I recognise that bing to...

mbegin [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

[put at-character here]James:
Didn't see this, but yes every time you load the page... See here: http://blogoscoped.com/forum/152739.html

Nice annoying April Fools joke :-)

George R [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

I found a number of "news" stories at Google News.
I hope they are jokes.

http://www.google.com/news?q=microsoft+bailout&num=100&gl=us&complete=0

Here are a few.

Microsoft asks feds for a bailout (InfoWorld) http://www.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct2=us%2F0_0_s_0_-1_t&usg=AFQjCNGyuNQ-FmazrhGHjaFrvO-GxFhldA&sig2=LPK85-NbSj-C5-c8VShJwg&cid=1324085177&ei=JSLUSYD8KtSfmAfM8budAg&rt=SEARCH&vm=STANDARD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.infoworld.com%2Farticle%2F09%2F04%2F01%2F13NF-microsoft-April-Fools_1.html

Recession Hits Microsoft, Apple; Government Stepping into Twitter (TMCnet) http://www.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct2=us%2F0_0_s_1_-1_t&usg=AFQjCNEgCl-eAzZVThuk8szTLKnqJqt2aw&sig2=7dFDXC6m0dj05tEf3SejgA&cid=1324247999&ei=JSLUSYD8KtSfmAfM8budAg&rt=SEARCH&vm=STANDARD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcolocation.tmcnet.com%2Ftopics%2Fcolocation-solutions%2Farticles%2F53420-recession-hits-microsoft-apple-government-stepping-into-twitter.htm

A bridge to Microsoft HQ: Critics slam $11M in federal stimulus ... (Computerworld) http://www.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct2=us%2F0_0_s_3_-1_t&usg=AFQjCNGPvTfglhrN2rt5tiu29aZhmPpWKw&sig2=QPQlKyUXReQ4_-tgXvwDRg&cid=1323595270&ei=JSLUSYD8KtSfmAfM8budAg&rt=SEARCH&vm=STANDARD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.computerworld.com%2Faction%2Farticle.do%3Fcommand%3DviewArticleBasic%26articleId%3D9130833

Eric Schmidt Interview: Google Buys Microsoft AND General Motors (ITworld.com)
Schmidt: “Am I the only one who noticed GM is asking for far more bailout money than the total price of 51 percent of their stock? ...
http://www.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct2=us%2F0_0_s_4_-1_t&usg=AFQjCNHOlKLgPCBoQ3ObXhVWwRRnvsCl6g&sig2=Hq9IKKL7q2aR8Zz-qndfgQ&cid=0&ei=JSLUSYD8KtSfmAfM8budAg&rt=SEARCH&vm=STANDARD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.itworld.com%2Fsmall-business%2F65581%2Feric-schmidt-interview-google-buys-microsoft-and-general-motors

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