{"id":556,"date":"2011-04-01T19:34:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T23:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/01\/what-were-reading-april-fools-edition\/"},"modified":"2011-06-15T16:47:01","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T20:47:01","slug":"what-were-reading-april-fools-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/what-were-reading-april-fools-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"What We&#8217;re Reading, April Fool&#8217;s Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With April Fool&#8217;s Day comes the myriad of jokes from the social mediasphere &#8211; some that were pretty good &#8220;gotchas&#8221; and others that I could tell were #aprilfools fodder a mile away. For today&#8217;s edition of What We&#8217;re Reading, I thought I&#8217;d share a few of those that tickled our funny bone:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt leaves a <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2011\/03\/31\/richard-rosenblatt-seriously-leave-my-yacht-out-of-this\/\">not-very-happy voice mail<\/a> after TechCrunch reporter Michael Arrington wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2011\/03\/31\/google-inadvertently-classifies-google-places-as-a-content-farm-and-removes-from-search-index\/\">joking post about Google Places<\/a> that mentioned Rosenblatt&#8217;s yacht, <em>The Adsense<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of Google, Gmail introduces a new product called <a href=\"http:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/help\/motion.html\">Gmail Motion<\/a> for writing emails using body motion. Actually, that would be very cool if it were real &#8211; dontcha think?<\/li>\n<p><center><object width=\"640\" height=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Bu927_ul_X0&#038;rel=0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;version=3\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Bu927_ul_X0&#038;rel=0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;version=3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"450\" height=\"283\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<li>From the Oops&#8230;April Fools?&#8221; Department: Hootsuite CEO Ryan Holmes accidentally (or &#8220;accidentally-for real&#8221;?) sends a &#8220;Confidential and Internal&#8221; email out to Hootsuite users that was meant for board members and investors. The email, which was about changing business models to something called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/hootsuite.com\/happy-owls\">Happy Owls<\/a>&#8220;, was actually in of itself an April Fool&#8217;s joke, but it turns out it wasn&#8217;t meant to be sent out to customers (or&#8230;<em>was<\/em> it?)<\/li>\n<li>Danny Brown posted on his blog that <a href=\"http:\/\/dannybrown.me\/2011\/04\/01\/twitter-bans-hashtags\/\">Twitter was banning hashtags<\/a> because of its &#8220;connotation with drug use.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>LinkedIn suggested fictional characters and dead famous people as people you may know (like <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.linkedin.com\/pub\/the-hatter\/31\/320\/353\">The Hatter<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/profile\/view?id=111268554&#038;authType=name&#038;authToken=Tmoz&#038;trk=nmp_pymk_name\">Groucho Marx<\/a>). Cute.\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What were your favorite April Fool&#8217;s jokes played out online?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With April Fool&#8217;s Day comes the myriad of jokes from the social mediasphere &#8211; some that were pretty good &#8220;gotchas&#8221; and others that I could tell were #aprilfools fodder a mile away. For today&#8217;s edition of What We&#8217;re Reading, I thought I&#8217;d share a few of those that tickled our funny bone:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,69],"tags":[166,128,159,70,20],"class_list":{"0":"post-556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-links","7":"category-social-media","8":"tag-april-fools","9":"tag-google","10":"tag-hootsuite","11":"tag-social-media-2","12":"tag-twitter","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":717,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions\/717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}