I must admit it – Google’s two April fools jokes may be lame, but they got me – both Google TiSP (BETA) and Gmail Paper.
TiSP (BETA) was simply too good to be true, and still I fell for it. It claimed that TiSP (BETA) was a free broadband service working “by connecting your commode-based TiSP wireless router to one of thousands of TiSP Access Nodes via fiber-optic cable strung through your local municipal sewage lines”. If I “signed up” they would send me the installation kit free and after a lot of dirtying my hands connecting it to my commode, I would have free wireless broadband internet. I clicked the “get started” link and got to the install page, which got me nowhere, except the FAQ page. The FAQ page had links to the custom install page and list of (water) companies that support TiSP, and they all 
ended up at the not found page. They even set up a support group, which already has over a thousand messages. And a blog post to boot, to announce the service.
In the meantime, my wife was swooning over the new free photo-printing service from Gmail. It said it could print our emails and mail them to us, supported by advertising, and also..
Photo attachments are printed on high-quality, glossy photo paper, and secured to your Gmail Paper with a paper clip. MP3 and WAV files will not be printed.
Why wouldn’t they print MP3 and WAV files I wonder?
Tags: april fool, Google, joke
