Lists Top 10 Places to Get Fooled on April 1st Observing April Fools Day has become a time-honored tradition for many web companies. Much like changing your logo to celebrate holidays, pulling a fast one on your users on April 1st is something that many web services and applications have really taken to heart. But keeping creative year-after-year is tough, and some companies have learned… Josh Catone View comments
Search April 1st, The Annual Day Without Google - Can You Live Without It For One Day? Our network blog has just announced an annual 'Day Without Google', starting tomorrow April 1st. ASE editor Charles Knight writes: "All were asking is that for One Day you try one of the Top 100 Alternative Search Engines". He implores us to "Choose one, choose several, but for One Day give the Alternative search engines a fighting chance and see… Richard MacManus View comments
Analysis Hi5 Launching OpenSocial Platform Today Popular social networking site Hi5 is launching its implementation of the OpenSocial platform today, the first apps go live at noon PST. The company is rolling out the apps very slowly, 1% of users will be able to access them at noon, 10% by the end of the day. The first 100 approved apps (there are 53 approved for launch today) will receive 1… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Product Reviews Last.fm to Sponsor New Music Category for "Extend Firefox 3" Contest Today, social music site Last.fm announced that they would be sponsoring a new music category in Mozilla's Extend Firefox 3 contest. The contest, which encourages developers to build add-ons for the Firefox browser, began on March 17th, 2008 and will continue until midnight on July 4th, 2008. This cycle of the contest will reward apps that take… Sarah Perez View comments
Social Networks Facebook to Crowdsource Chinese Translation - China Launch Imminent? Following on from our Q&A with Benjamin Joffe about how Facebook compares to top Asian social networks, Kaiser Kuo from Ogilvy China Digital Watch reported today that Facebook users in China "received a message on their main pages this morning asking them to help out with the translation of the site into simplified Chinese". Kaiser calls this a… Social Richard MacManus View comments