As you may have noticed the Internet was almost drown in April Fool Jokes this year and some of us noticed it directly while others got angry about the ideas or stories. Some even said some of the stuff where good ideas and innovative products/services. Here are some of the April Fool jokes I found this year:

Domain Tools

Jay Westerdal from domain tools told a story about a new service from Domain Tools. This new whois tool will let Intellectual property attorneys track down offenders of trademarks in domain names in a new and innovative way Jay says in his blog:

Our technology has gotten so good we believe we can predict what people will registered about 36 hours before they commit the crime.

Read the full story in Domain Tools blog

Google

Searching stuff from the future seems like a popular thing this year since Google Australia launched gDayâ„¢ with MATEâ„¢ search function where you can search content 24 hours before it’s created

Google spiders crawl publicly available web information and our index of historic, cached web content. Using a mashup of numerous factors such as recurrence plots, fuzzy measure analysis, online betting odds and the weather forecast from the iGoogle weather gadget, we can create a sophisticated model of what the internet will look like 24 hours from now.

Google also created a new email function in Gmail where you can send emails back in time. The emails you send end up in the mail box of the recipient in chronological order and you can select to have the emails marked as read . Imagine how this would have been abused it it was for real

Some other Google jokes:

• Build Your Very Own Google Airplane
• Google Wake Up Kit
• YouTube RickRolls Users
• Google And Virgin Team For Human Settlement On Mars

Problogger.net

Problogger wrote that he’s starting a new service called PayPerTweet where you get paid to Tweet about stuff You can also get extra cash by re-Tweeting stuff. This could actually have been true since there are services like PayPerPost already. You can also find an explanation of the joke here

JohnCow.com

John Cow did something really ugly (but at the same time funny ). I’m not going to spoil the fun for you so just go to the post and read it for yourself. At first it didn’t look like any joke at all…..but have a look at the links in the bottom of the post

Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that companies are sending their IT people to hacker-camp to keep up with the hackers Read the full story here.

Wired

This story about Deutsche Telekom could have been an early April Fools joke, but I guess it’s not since DT wanted to sue Swedish TeliaSonera some time earlier for using the color magenta in their logo . Read it for your self and let us know what you think: Deutsche Telekom to Engadget: We Own The Color Magenta

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