Internet News Video April 1st

This week was a crazy busy internet news week! Not only that but it made things worse by having so many dang April fools jokes on the internet!

Though I am about 95% sure Caffein didn’t get renamed by google to Kaffein I can’t verify this quite yet. However, it is no joke that this update is quite possibly live everywhere which will change some SEO factors. I will keep you posted on my findings! Dang Google for making this time of year so difficult! ;)

Hope you enjoy the vid!

Wolfram Alpha: http://www.wolframalpha.com/

(This search engine thingy for my iphone is pretty dang cool. You can use it more like a reference or quick information guide for searches. If there is a specific piece of information you need this tool will be faster than loading safari an doing a search on Google. Also it’s affordable now since it dropped from like $49 to $2. If you already purchased this along time ago for the full price ask for a refund to the cheaper price as they are honoring that!)

Apple builds their own search engine in the next 5 years?: http://www.businessinsider.com/70-chance-apple-builds-its-own-search-engine-in-the-next-five-years-2010-3

See my new training video of the new YouTube layout:

FourSquare set to hit 1 million users! Check it out: http://foursquare.com/

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LIST OF APRIL FOOLS JOKES

Google Docs let’s you upload anything, really, anything you want, including your sofa
Google AJAX let’s you define evil API requests from legit ones with the &evil=true parameter
Google Maps Australia does Australian speaking directions
Google Maps does 3D street views. Go to the maps, and go down to a street level and you will be able to see the man with 3D glasses.
Google AdSense adds wingdings font to the ads
YouTube lets you watch videos in text only mode.
Google building a nuclear project according to TechCrunch
Google Books go 3D
Google gets into building jails for municipalities
Google launches Google Translate for Animals
Google voice does standard voicemail capabilities
Google’s search results summary bar shows results in something else then seconds (try it with any Google search)
Google launched Google Romance
Google Reader’s ReaderAdvantage miles program
Picasa’s life size image view
Google Chrome extension to unmute the web
Gmail vowel outage

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On April 1st Google honored Topeka Kansas and changed their name to Topeka for a day. During Google’s “Super Fast Internet” contest Topeka Kansas tried to get the attention of Google and renamed their city for an entire month to Google Kansas. This really got the attention of Google and on April 1st 2010 Google returned the favor and officially renamed them selves to Topkea for a day!

Topeka Kansas now Google Kansas

Topeka Google

Doing something crazy like this can really get the attention of those big fish that you want to attract. If you are in a position with a really good product but are finding your self lacking any connections do something BIG to stand out among the crowd! I am not huge fish in the midst of all the big corporations out there but even I get people coming to me day in and day out wanting to sell me something, get me to sell something or help them! I try my best to sort through the rift and help all I can but it is difficult. Doing something large can really help you stand out and get a guru’s attention or potential business partner.

Below is a wallpaper I designed back in 2008. Sure I had to spend time designing it and then spend a few hundred bucks to have a nice artist put it all together…but the end result was me throwing that in every forum I could find and eventually one of the guru’s in the picture contacted me. It formed a relationship that took my career to new heights. Doing something like this can help you stand out in your niche, but not only that it let’s the guru’s know you mean business and that you have the income and persistence to be serious and are quite possibly worth listening too! ;)

Funny Wallpaper of the 30dc crew

Catch you next week with the next internet news video!

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