Robert Scoble's announcement that he was leaving for Google was followed by an amusing string of changes. The best was when Yahoo blogger Jeremy Zawodny announced he was also moving to Google while Google blogger Matt Cutts said he was joining Yahoo. "Anyway, to lessen the confusion (or maybe increase it), I'll be blogging on his site from now on and he'll be here," wrote Zawodny, Then there was a Matt Cutts blog post, Working at Google is full of surprises, signed "Jeremy".
Elsewhere on the web, a lot of sites decided to appeal to girls by going pink -- including Slashdot. Ask did a nice job of launching RhymeRank, "an innovative search technology capable of producing related search results that rhyme with a searcher's original query." MSN brought back its popular My MSN Search spoof.
I particularly liked the newslist at MacRumours.com which included:
03/31 : Apple renames Bonjour to Aloha and drops French Language Kit 03/30 : New Apple Ad Features John C. Dvorak 03/30 : iPod Sock Benchmarks 03/29 : Mac OS X 6 to be named Felix 03/29 : Apple Merges iTMS Classical/Country Genres to Save Disk Space 03/29 : Press Ignores Apple Media Event 03/28 : iPod Pro to include bottle opener, screwdriver, scissors, nail-file, corkscrew, and toothpick
As usual, Urgo.org compiled a huge list of web-based pranks. Wkikipedia also has a round-up of web, TV, radio and other spoofs, including stories that turned out to be serious after all.
