Being April Fool’s day, everyone around decided to have some fun, right from a ‘New Airplane’ in Google Docs to ProBlogger launching ‘PayPerTweet’! Check this list out and do add links to your own pranks using the comment box!
1. Virgle - Virgin founder Richard Branson and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will be leading hundreds of users on one of the grandest adventures in human history: Project Virgle, the first permanent human colony on Mars.
2. Dajare - Google Japan (google.co.jp), is on an attempt to “organize the world’s laughter.”
3. gDay - Search into the Future with Google gDay. Using technology right out of a fiction movie, Google has made it possible to search the internet as it would be 24 hours into the future.
4. Google Dialect Translation - Google aims at translating regional dialects of Korean to and from Standard Korean.
5. Gmail Custom Time - Dictate when you want Emails to appear in recipients’ mail boxes. You will never find yourself sending a late mail again.
6. Orkut is Now Yogurt
Wanna have some? 
7. Google Calendar is Feeling Lucky - Google added the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button to its calendar feature. When you tried to create a new event, you were given the regular option of entering the correct details and hitting “Create Event,” and also the new option of “I’m Feeling Lucky” which would set you up with an evening date with, among others, Matt Damon, Eric Cartman, Tom Cruise, Jessica Alba, Pamela Anderson, Paris Hilton, Angelina Jolie, Britney Spears, Anna Kournikova, Johnny Depp, George W. Bush, or Lois Griffin.
8. Google Wake Up Kit - Never miss a meeting again. Google helps you to get out of bed even from the deepest of slumbers. You can even sync with your Outlook.
9. New Airplane in Google Docs - A little easter egg was added, where a user can click the file menu and directly under new document is “New Airplane” which immediately opens a copy of a Google branded paper airplane. To reach the file menu, click the new menu, then “Document” then a new window opens.
10. Google Manpower Search - As a part of Google China, this new feature is powered by 25 million volunteers who do the searching around the clock. When the user entered a keyword, volunteers will search any possible answers from a mass of paper documents as well as online resources. The user is expected to get the search result within 32 seconds.
11. Google Books ‘Scratch and Sniff’ - A new section in Google Books allows users to ’scratch and sniff’ certain books. Users are asked to “…please place your nose near the monitor and click ‘Go’” which then ‘loads odours’.
12. Discounted airline fare by Virgin Blue - If you’re willing to stand! Yeah, you read that right, if you are willing to STAND!!
13. Yuvi & Deepika tie the knot - Finally the rumours about the sought after Indian Cricketer and Bollywood actress, come to an end. Or has it?
14. Tech2 Exclusive: India May Ban Facebook, Orkut and Foreign Social Networking Sites - India talks about banning popular Social Networking sites on grounds of Privacy and Security.
15. TechCrunch acquires Tiger Beat, will rename it CrunchKids - “Get ‘em while they’re young”, says TechCrunch’s Arrington
16. ProBlogger launches PayPerTweet - Online Marketing, Brand Building and of course Get Paid for Tweeting. Heard of Cost Per Thousand Tweets?? LOL!
17. No Bullet points on Slideshare - An unprecedented way in making presentations more effective: No bullet points and deceptive chart junk.
18. Google buys Truemors - In an all cash $5 Billion deal, Google takes over Truemors for its superior News gathering capability.
19. Mahalo Daily Steve Jobs Interview
20. Mood Technologies launches the MusicMask - Turn your face into a music instrument and play music by making different facial expressions.
21. WATSearch, The world’s first social search engine raises 3 million in funding - WATSearch empowers you with a tool to search for profiles across various social networking communities like Orkut, Facebook, Hi5, LinkedIn, MySpace.
22. Aviary Dodo, Turn the Clock on Images - What you’ll look like after 25 years. You can turn the clock back or forward in time and this tool generates an images based on the current one.
23. Time TravLR, Launch your website yesterday - Using a combination of Web 3.0 and 50% more AJAX, get websites done even before you know you need them.
24. Betamax to HD-DVD Converter - One Touch Recording / Conversion between the 2 Formats.
25. GoogleTalk goes Green - Google Talk servers will start automatically sending your conversations using IM-speak instead of normal words.
26. IRS Considers Tax Exempt Status for Bloggers - Bloggers need not pay tax for money earned through Blogging, as they provide a valuable public service by sharing information for free. Yaaaaahhhhhhhhhoooooooo!!
27. Flying Penguins - A promotional trail for the BBC iPlayer leads to the discovery of a colony of Flying Penguins.
28. Microsoft, Yahoo agree on buyout price - Microsoft takes over Yahoo’s datacenters, Web properties, and ad platform for $47.2 billion
29. Trust Banners, Guaranteed Brand Loyalty Advertising - Are your customers confused about buying your product? Use Trust Banners to help them to get decided and also stick to your brand.
30. Njection, Real Time Tracking of Police Officers - The information available on the Njection.com will give its visitors a detailed view of where police officers are in their area and how well they are responding to crime in their neighborhood.
31. eHarmony.com founder, finds his new love at Match.com - Dr. Neil Clark Warren, founder of eHarmony.com find a match of 27.3 out of 29 dimensions on Match.com
32. TechCrunch suing Facebook for $25 million - Tech Crunch’s founder Michael Arrington is suing facebook for statutory damages related to his picture being used in ads without explicit permission in Facebook.
33. DailyBlogTips Acquired for $168,000 - Daily Blog Tips founder Scocco sells the Daily network but will continue to work as an editor for the blogs.
34. John Chow Cola - The Official Blogger Drink - Post Ideas “POP” into your head, with special Neuro Enhancers!
35. Hummer giveaway at a Crazy internet Marketing Contest - A Brand New Hummer valued at over $58k has been added to the prize pool for a contest at Winningtheweb.com.
36. Chris Pirillo quits his job over a fight with his wife - LOL!
37. Joel Comm finds way to get rid of Spam completely - His new solution, Instant Whitelist assures 100% Email Deliverability.
38. Blogging Fingers finally crosses 23k RSS Subscribers - From around 1k subscribers to 23k in just 1 day, Blogging Fingers is now competing with John Chow over night!
39. Ades Blog is going fully on RSS - No more Ades Blog, Only Ades RSS. Please subscribe to still receive posts.
40. Google buys Microsoft for $1 Trillion - Hehe!!
Bonus Prank!: Kyle Kendrick gets traded to a team in Japan! - Baseball player Kyle Kendrick getting “Punk’d” by teammate Brett Myers. They tell him he is being traded to a team in Japan! This is a comcast broadcast of the video.
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