Found my first Prank on the internet… and well its not a surprise its GOOGLE with Google Glup . Oh looks like that was a prank from 2005 or is it really??

Found the following on google since last post

Voice Notifications on Google Wave
Google Docs

and i think this years best is from wikipedia. Homepage has an article about wife selling and how it all started. ( A bit anti-feminist but.. its April fool’s day… who cares)

More finds on google:
Google Romance again doubt if this of this year
Animal Translator
this is the vid of the same:

and Starbucks has this (actually never knew Starbucks even does this)
Sizes

Guardian has this stroy

Economist has this story

More from google:

3D viewing on google books.
3D viewing of street view on google maps

both of the above are indicated by the small glasses icon

Changing the name of google from google to Topeka

Search time is measured by different time units… for example the following are what I got: icrofortnights, microweeks, nanocenturies, epochs, femtogalactic years, parsecs, 23.00 skidoo, jiffies, shakes of a lamb’s tail, gigawatts, hertz, Planck times, centibeats, centons, warp factors and “times the velocity of an unladen swallow”

Youtube logo looks strange donno what thats about

GAG is a google annotation lib for programmers.

Virgle has more updates (gosh I shouldnt have missed this out yest)

Well more as I find them

One of India’s Leading newspapers and my personal favorite for Indian news has finally launched a new, and much better content management system. I, was among the very first to congratulate the editor. I will list a few nice things about the system and some negative points that I as a web developer, and an ardent online news reader ( I read “The Hindu’, ‘The Guardian’, ‘The NY Times’ and ‘The Economist’ regularly) observed, while browsing through the site. Well first things first… here are the screenshots

The Hindu - Beta - Courtesy the Hindu

The Hindu - old

As you can see, there is a lot of improvement, the CSS (styling) and code has tremendously improved. News is more visually accessible. The 3 column index page layout and 2 column news page layout is a nice spread. There are lots of added functionality like comments, tags, etc. Latest news and Todays news sections of the old version seem to be combined into one system. That’s really great. The top menu bar (which resembles NY Times top menu a bit) with sections are perfect. Somehow, I feel at home with the website. Well complements apart, there are a few things;  Really minor ones which if implemented would make a difference…

First of all the News Flash section seems out of place. The font doesn’t seem to matchthe  rest of the layout. This is really a subjective choice, but I geninely feel there is  room for improvement here.

Second. After every comment there could be a horizontal rule i.e. is a line which would help separate it from the comment. I am sure that will make it easy to read.

Third. The Textual Google ads looks out of place. If the CSS of the ads were to be tweaked, I am sure they would fit perfectly into the site.

I am still exploring the site will definitely post any suggestions here… if there are any.. meanwhile… I email this post to the editor.

Ah there are more: to my surprise the site failed the CSS test by 10 errors by w3c. The error report is here

It shows up a lot of errors (36 for HTML 5 and more for XHTML transitional and even more for XHTML strict) in the markup test by w3c. The error report is here

Dear editor,

Hope these suggestions helped. Once again thanks and do keep the news coming.