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April Fools 2011 Roundup

April 1, 2011 By Stephen 1 Comment

I'd love to be greeted by this scene on April 1!

I love April Fools day. Like Halloween, it gives us all a chance to take ourselves a little less seriously and just have some fun. And the best April Fools pranks are those that point out real limitations in our thinking and mindset. That’s always been my April 1 goal: Why not combine Wi-Fi and PoE? And doesn’t the “giant iPod Touch” sound like a hoax?

I’ll be cataloging my favorite April Fools pranks from this year on this page. Check back as I update it!

  • Wireless Fun
    • Jennifer Huber takes on the proliferation of ugly wireless access points Making Wireless Sexy – HourglassAire
    • Narrowcom To Unveil Wi-FiBASE-T (by yours truly!)
    • Aerohive…Now with Rainbows – what a clever and well-made video!
    • Airesham Redefines Wireless Convergence – a really silly wireless networking spoof by Lee H. Badman
  • Enterprise Storage FTW!
    • From Storage Newsletter: NetApp to Acquire EMC for $9.5 Bilion
    • Seagate triples up heads/platter ratio
    • SNW to Offer Free Access to Press Room, Embrace Social Media, MORE!
  • Networking What?
    • Cisco and Brocade working together on interoperable TRILL products
    • Alternative to IPv6 in the Works
    • VMware’s vSphere 5 vStorage API for Token Ring Integration:
      • FCoTR To Take Over The World (Howard Marks)
      • vSphere 5 To Include vStorage API for Token Ring Integration (Me)
      • Storage Vendors Announce FCoTR and VATRI Support (Scott Boss)
  • Enterprise IT Funnies
    • From Debian, the Canterbury Project
    • From VMware comes Cloud City
  • In the Workplace
    • Computer Training for Moms
    • @Chyldofthebit upgraded his co-worker’s computer
  • Around the Internets
    • Nokia Microsoft deal falls through as Nokia merges with Google
    • Robert Novak outdid himself with GoDaddy announces new PKoIP protocol, innovates tying panties in knots over the Internet
    • CloudEra MapIncrease
    • Livedrive announces industry leading, game changing technology for online backup and data storage
    • Google brings us Gmail Motion, the Voice-alyzer, and is hiring 32,000 WPM typists as autocompleters
    • Google Inadvertently Classifies Google Places As A “Content Farm” And Removes From Search Index
  • More Fun
    • PLAYMOBIL(TM) Apple Store Playset
    • Okay, We Give Up (from Scientific American)
    • Officially Official: 420-HP BMW M3 Pickup hauls ass, nearly 1,000 pounds
    • Introducing the NWC Royale Membership
    • iPad colocation from MacMiniColo
    • Kodak Relationshiffft
    • B&H Double Takes
    • The best new iPhone/Android app: GreyScale
    • Introducing Starbucks Mobile Pour
    • Deals For Hipsters
    • A 3D monocle from Toshiba

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Filed Under: Personal Tagged With: Aerohive, April Fools, Debian, EMC, GoDaddy, Google, Jennifer Huber, Lee Badman, NetApp, Robert Novak, Starbucks, Storage Newsletter, VATRI, VMware, wireless

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