April Fools Day

Just to clear one thing up for those of you that received an SMS from me yesterday just to let you know I was having a bad day, and had quit my job.... It was the 1st of April - and if you believed me "April Fools!".

On that note, thought I would also mention that Google have outdone themselves this year. Each year Google seem to have some really out there April Fools, and this year they went all out.

For their blogger site (blogger.com) they have announced a new blogging service that will order your blog posts not by date, but by what is most interesting. The new service also promised to highlight anything you say that it considers interesting, plus if you don't know what to blog about, there will be a "I'm feeling lucky" button, that will actually write an interesting blog post for you.

Google Calendar announced a new wake up call reminder service that will sms you a wake up call, and if you do not respond to that will use more drastic measure to awaken you.

On the general Google search site, they announced 2 things. First was gDay, which is a new revolutionary search and analysis algorithm that will display web pages and sites 'as they will look tomorrow'. This includes news sites and blogs, so you can see blog posts and news articles before they are even written.

The second major Google April fools, was the announcement that Google and Virgin have partnered to create Virgle... a new initiative that will shortly be setting up the first colony on Mars, which was looking for people to register for their place on the red planet.

With all these great services announced this year, I can't wait to see what Google will do next year!