The world will get a chuckle out of Google’s April Fools prank, “TiSP.” But unless you’ve been following their plans with Earthlink to develop a citywide wifi program pretty closely, you might have missed the element of mockery.
You see, a competing plan proposed by San Francisco Supervisor Tom Ammiano proposed building out a municipally owned network by laying fiber-optic cable alongside the city’s underground sewers.
Local columnist Matt Smith called Ammiano’s plan a “boondoggle” in this weeks San Francisco Weekly, though also complained that Gavin Newsom’s lack of political skill is what’s keeping Google from giving away “what amounts to free beer.”
Touche, Google. Touche.
…takes “bathroom humor” and “potty jokes” to a whole new level…happy April Fools day, GigaOm team!
Thanks Steve. Since everyone is doing the April Fool’s Joke thing today, I think we are going to sit back and enjoy the whole thing by reading other people’s funnies.
Sounds kind of crappy to me. I wonder if it will require a new kind of packet sniffer? Ha! Ha!
April Fools everyone!
Google also has another prank going.
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/more.html
As far as I remember, Google has been pulling pranks for the last 3 years keep it’s corporate humor kicking and alive on April Fool’s day.
Surprisingly, Microsoft hasn’t yet copied this April Fool concept :-)
Along those lines, the Sloof Lirpa Center has announced a vulnerability in Google’s AdSense code:
http://www.slooflirpacenter.com
It is apparent that funny rules the Web for sure! I tend to be the more serious type, but you have to be able to laugh.
Next we will have Google scratch and sniff ads called Adsnifs.
Keeping the April 1st’s tradition alive, here is an interesting post from Scobleizer’s blog:
http://scobleizer.com/2006/04/01/announcement-im-going-to-google/
Just wanted to share…
want to share this site:
http://www.chatany.com
A virtual community, and it seems as a fools day present.
Just not funny.
Pathetic!
just shows there are too many geeks in the company with less work.
- thinking about toilets
- bringing dogs to work
- eat free food
- roller hockey
- sleep at work
Google shows its ugly corporate side where people will email this link around and everyone who visits will generate a hit to Google site, maybe a % of them will search on Google and a fraction of this % will generate $$$ via Ads.
yeah pretty boring…
Gmail Paper was much funnier
I think they have too much free time on their hands..
Most idiotic spoof !!
certainly not expected on google standards, if they plan to set one !!
At first I thought this might explain Google’s recent purchases of the ‘dark fiber’. Afterall, they would need the fiber to support the bandwidth for the free wireless internet connection they are offering. Unfortunately this is just an april fool joke but Google becoming ISP is not that far off.
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At first i thought it was real but i remembered it was april fools day. If any company can pull this off it is google w/ this high speed internet lol. http://t1buyersguide.com