Dark Porcelain and Sloof Lirpa Center - Google
The April Fools Jokes are ‘flying’ for April 1, 2007 as the Google machine has cranked out a couple of current, web favorites including one regarding Dark Porcelain which is covered by Gizmodo:
Always the witty pranksters, Google has released yet another new beta product: TiSP (Toilet ISP, we believe). They send you some fiber optic and a pair of gloves. Then what do you do? (more)
BloggingStocks goes on to document the prank suggesting that:
Customers will be able to connect that murky and disgusting waste channel to airwaves all around their homes, apartments and condos to receive that free dose of WiFi wireless Internet.
ZDNet and - even - Michael Arrington at TechCrunch were impressed by the execution. Mr. Arrington noted this about the entire April Fools project:
Google takes a lot of time with its April Fools jokes, and they generally center around new products.
Meanwhile, at the Sloof Lirpa Center, the tone was decidedly more urgent where a vulnerability in Google AdSense code has been discovered. The SLC announced that publishers would be advised to sign up for ContextWeb’s beta program for its coming ad exchange.
No comment yet from the Googleplex.
Other discussions on April Fool-ery: PC World: Techlog, Jeremy Toeman’s LIVEdigitally, Gizmodo, The Next Net, Download Squad, CyberNet Technology News, Search Engine Land, michael parekh on IT, I4U News, Clickety Clack, Google Operating System, GigaOM, broadbandreports.com, gSpy, NevilleHobson.com, Can Erten, Google Blogoscoped, Startup Meme, Alice Hill’s Real Tech News, Mashable!, The Software Abstractions Blog, Information Overlord, PalmAddicts, Paul Mooney, parislemon, Licence to Roam, Search Marketing Gurus, Googlified, InsideGoogle and Connecting the Dots.
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