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I’ll be staying up late tonight to watch the beginning of April 1st 2011 and have some fun looking at all the great April Fools Days pranks on the web.
Be on the lookout for updates but I think you can expect something from a few repeat offenders:
Woot.com, Thinkgeek.com, and even Google.com
It’s been a few years since I’ve covered April Fools Day web pranks but you can check out a few older posts and you can also rank this year’s pranks at aprilfoolsdayontheweb.com
Updates – Here we GO!
> Google Romance: “… you’ll live happily, and contextually, ever after.”
> ThinkGeek’s products are up! – Get an “I, for one, welcome our new computer overlords” shirt with $15 purchase. My favorite of the bunch – Angry Birds Pork Rinds:
> All YouTube videos can now be played in 1911 silent mode – about time, the talkies ruined everything! Maybe not available on all of them though.
> Looking for some good pranks? Looks like you can change someone’s Google’s language preference to Elmer Fudd or their Facebook to Pirate-English! Details@ USAToday.com
> Update 12:47am EST – Time to head over to see what Woot! has coming up at 1am EST! Usually there is a bag of crap around – read carefully! Get your credit cards ready!
> Ok So Woot is making you complete game levels as their smart post snail delivering Bags of Crap to earn your April Fools Day bag of crap- I think I grabbed one but the site is acting funky for me so we’ll see. Avoid the obstacles and shoot the packages with your spacebar, but only shoot into the houses wondering where their BOC has gotten off to!
- Looks like they are trying to fix the funky, as an FYI you the BoC are broken into segments, one allotment per game level. Looks like I got off easy and snagged a level 1 Crap, keep playing and level up to get the higher level craps… and let me just say HAHA that snail is sloooooowwww :-p
-And it’s back – you’ll need flash to play if you are having problems make sure you are up to date and flash is not blocked!
- Get your Crap? Brag about it over in the Deals.Woot Community Section ( I’m Tygerdave – say hello!)
> Kodak is touting their new app, Relationshiffft! - “Status change? Don’t delete…Relationshiffft! Photo and video person purge helps you move on.”
> Nerd Comic xkcd goes 3D – The joke will be on you when you puke after the 45 seconds… (also seems to have broken image linking on newer comics so you’ll have to go yourself)
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Check out the celebration post and get some stats here.
Wondering what the big deal was?
Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth for $14.46 – A recently published book about the future of our planet by Carl Stager
Congratulations to the Deals.Woot team on hitting this milestone and congrats to Deals.Woot superuser heymo for posting that very appropriate deal!
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The name speaks for itself so the website doesn’t have to, freeing me up to have a little extra fun. I hope you will enjoy it and I hope you will try to do something unexpectedly nice on Friday well!
http://www.dosomethingunexpectedlyniceforsomeonejustbecauseday.info
March forth on March fourth and do good things!
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Maybe you’re like me and didn’t see the Superbowl this year but still would like to be part of the conversations tomorrow? Well, everyone knows that the post Superbowl conversation breaks down into 3 major categories:
10% – The Game
15% – The half-time show
75% – The commercials
Want to join in on the conversation? You can surf on over to USA today’s site and catch up on all 60 of the Superbowl ads on your smartphone or tablet and see what everyone is talking about. The ads are listed in popularity order by default so you can even be sure that you see the best ads first if you have limited time, use the two finger scroll method to move down the list.
If you ever wonder why Superbowl advertising is so expensive, look no further – I just actively sought out something that i normally go to great pains to avoid. Happy watching!
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Deals.Woot Top Reputation Leaderboard
This was a much needed to boost to traffic and user activity, more than making up for the brutal attack on the site’s most active users a few months ago. Segregation of the site’s more social area and excessive, at times stalking and shockingly personal, moderation of users caused many of the sites most active users to fade into the shadows or abandon the site altogether.
These changes to the reputation system have been in the works for quite a while, but the deals.woot programming team used the time well and the enhancements have been well received.
Deals.Woot Reputation Dashboard
The new dashboard is the center-piece of the changes, it details how the users rank in all the categories of activities that earn reputation. It also provides useful hints that inform users what they can do if they want to increase their reputation.
Some activity is bound to drop off after some of the novelty wears off, but this change has made a real difference in getting the users more involved and has given the site a much needed shot of energy.
What can you do to breathe a little life back into your site?
- Set the bar LOW: Once a month is a crappy goal when you were cranking out 5 posts a week, but better than once a year!
- Set a specific day: Put it on your calender, think about your post during your commute, type some notes on your break at work, have lunch at somewhere with wi-fi and crank out that post.
- Get a buddy: Know someone else that is still posting away or even that isn’t and wants to get back to it? Have lunch with them and talk about posting or even write together
- Reward yourself: Pick something small as a reward for yourself when you finish a post
I’m sure that there are a number of other things that people have done to get the ball rolling again and if anyone is still out there that has succeeded I’d love to hear about it.
- Image by jlori via Flickr
I have a few Google Wave invites available if anyone out there would like one, just leave me a comment and put make sure you put your correct e-mail address into the DISQUS commenting system.
Wave is pretty slick and if you need to do some online collaboration and don’t mind a fairly open environment then this is the perfect product for you. Wave is NOT a replacement for e-mail, instant messaging, or your online social networks, although it pulls in components from all of those types of communication.
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