How top Techies celebrated April Fool's Day

April 1st is celebrated as April Fool’s Day or All Fools Day in many countries. People usually play prank on others and celebrate it. Tech companies also have celebrated April fools Day and, here is a list how the have done it this year.

BMW: ROYAL BABY CARRIAGE

BMW said today that “we are proud to announce the launch of our limited edition BMW P.R.A.M. (Postnatal Royal Auto Mobile)” to coincide with the birth of Prince William and Kate Middleton’s first child

THE GUARDIAN: GUARDIAN GOGGLES

Playing on Google Goggles, The Guardian newspaper released its own set of smart frames.

Google: Closing of YouTube, Treasure layer in Google Maps, Google Nose, Gmail Blue, Add emotions to Google+ pictures, Levity algorithm
Google is the master of humorous tech pranks for April Fools’ Day. We clearly don’t believe anything Google tells us on March 31 and April 1, but here’s a roundup of Google’s pranks:

Closing of YouTube

Treasure layer in Google Maps

Google Nose

Gmail Blue

Levity algorithm

Google+ emotions

Finally, the Google+ team added the ability to add “emotions” to pictures.

IKEA: FLAT-PACK LAWNMOWER

IKEA launched a “brand new, fully flat-pack GRÄSSAX lawnmower.”

NOKIA: TOUCHSCREEN LUMIA MICROWAVES

If you can’t win the people with Lumia Windows Phones, maybe it’s time to try pitching them onsmart microwaves?

RUNKEEPER FOR IPAD

Runkeeper brings its iPhone app for tracking your exercise to the iPad.

SPHERO: PEACEKEEPER EDITION

The Sphero robotic ball that can be controlled from your phone has been modified to help crush objects and trip runners. It costs $10,000.

SONY: PET TECHNOLOGY INCLUDING CAT HEADPHONES AND TVS FOR DOGS

Sony launched a set of technology for pets including Cat Cans, speakers for your hamster, andTVs for dogs.

THINKGEEK: PLAY-DOH 3D PRINTER AND EYE OF SAURON DESK LAMP

3D printing is super hot. Why not a 3D printer that works with Play-Doh? Oh, and how about a sweet “Eye of Sauron Desk Lamp” while you’re already ordering?

TWITTER: CHARGING TO USE VOWELS

It’s now going to cost to use vowels on Twitter, no more “LOL” for you freeloaders. You’ll just have to use smiley faces.

VIRGIN ATLANTIC: GLASS-BOTTOMED PLANE

Maybe the most scary sounding prank we’ve heard today is Virgin Atlantic’s proposed glass-bottom plane.

LET US KNOW WHAT WE MISSED

Other companies will surely have their own April Fools’ pranks today. Let us know in the comments what we missed or what you found particularly funny.

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Google celebrates April fool's day

Google Celebrates April Fool’s day with some amazing features such as ‘Treasure Layer’ in Google Maps and a video suggesting YouTube will close tomorrow.

First up, as you can see in the photo above, a Google Maps look at San Francisco has a much different look that hearkens to old pirate tales. To see the Treasure Map layer, go into Google Maps and tap the Treasure option in the top right corner.

Google also released a three-and-a-half-minute April Fools’ video from the YouTube team (watch it below) saying that YouTube will close tomorrow and has actually been a massive contest to find the best video in the world. The company says it will review every video that has ever been uploaded and will delete everything else but the winner.

The search giant has also pushed out another practical joke called Google Nose, a program that lets you search by scent. This year Google’s flagship fake product is Google Nose. Nose purports to let you search for scents in Google search and use Android devices to smell objects and tell you what they are. Google says Nose can help you identify the smell of “a new car”, “the inside of an Egyptian tomb,” or “a ghost.”

“Our task as designers is to get our users the information they are looking for as quickly and beautifully as possible,” a Google user experience designer says in the video. “But until now we couldn’t give users what they are looking for — because sometimes they’re not looking at all.”

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Top 10 websites of 2013

Another year has passed by lest see which site tops the list.

• Facebook


• Google


• Youtube


• Yahoo!


• Baidu.com


• Wikipedia


• Windows Live


• Amazon.com


• QQ.com


• Twitter

“Ranking powered by alexa.com”

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Fact for the day: 27-06-2012

Every minute 35 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube.

35 hours of video every minute. 2100 hours of video every hour. 50400 hours of video every day.

Total number of Instant Messaging users by 2010 is 2.4 billion !

That includes all the instant messaging tools usage, like Google Talk, Yahoo messenger, Skype etc.

Total number of Twitter users by 2010 = 175 million !

Which means 175 million people are involved in random talk and tweeting in 140 characters. Now, who’s denying ?

250 million New people registered on Facebook in 2010

Imagine, if every year, 250 million people added up ?

70% of Facebook’s user base is outside the U.S

Facebook has become truly a global phenomenon now. Isn’t it ?

By 2010, there are more than 5 Billion mobile connections in the world !

Mobile applications, anyone ?

The average number of videos an Internet user in U.S watches on the internet = 186

This is pretty much close to the rest of the world, but what’s more interesting is that the source is Facebook and YouTube.

The average number of photos uploaded on Facebook per year = 36 billion.

That’s very less compared to Flickr, but its interesting to see Facebook eating up to other specialized social media channels like YouTube and Flickr with its content.

Number of new users on Twitter in 2010 = 100 Million

Clearly, after Facebook, Twitter is the most fast growing website on the internet today.

The most popular browser on the internet today is Internet Explorer, despite fierce competition from Firefox and Chrome.

Another true fact: we cannot download other browser without IE.

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Fact for the day: 26-06-2012

The average YouTube user visits the site 14 times per month

The average user spends an average of 25 minutes on the site each time they visit.

The average user spends 5 hours and 50 minutes per month (not as much as Facebook)

Together, we spend 2.9 billion hours on YouTube in a month. That’s 326,294 years.

More than 13 million hours of video were uploaded during 2010 and 35 hours of video are uploaded every minute.

The amount of video uploaded in 2010 is the equivalent of 150,000+ full-length movies in theaters each week

More video is uploaded to YouTube in 60 days than the 3 major US networks created in 60 years

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Fact for the day: 24-06-2012

The number of advertisers using display ads on YouTube increased by 1,000% in the last year

YouTube has more HD content than any other online video site

10% of YouTube’s videos are available in HD

Automated Content ID (which detects duplicate content to prevent copyright infringements) scans over 100 years of video every day

More than 1000 partners are using Content ID, including every major US network broadcaster, movie studio and record label

Over a third of YouTube’s total monetized views come from Content ID

Over 4 million people are connected and auto-sharing to at least one social network

An AutoShared Tweet results in 6 new youtube.com sessions

Over 5 million people have found and subscribed to at least one friend on YouTube using friend-finding tools

Millions of subscriptions happen each day. Subscriptions allow you to connect with someone you’re interested in—whether it’s a friend, or the NBA—and keep up on their activity on the site.

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Fact for the day: 21-06-2012

More than 50% of videos on YouTube have been rated or include comments from the community

Millions of videos are favorited every day

YouTube mobile gets over 100 million views a day

The YouTube player is embedded across tens of millions of websites

YouTube says that on average there are more than 400 tweets per minute containing a YouTube link

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Fact for the day: 20-06-2012

Total number of Instant Messaging users by 2010 is 2.4 billion !

That includes all the instant messaging tools usage, like Google Talk, Yahoo messenger, Skype etc.

Total number of Twitter users by 2010 = 175 million !

Which means 175 million people are involved in random talk and tweeting in 140 characters. Now, who’s denying ?

250 million New people registered on Facebook in 2010

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By 2010, there are more than 5 Billion mobile connections in the world !

Mobile applications, anyone ?

The average number of videos an Internet user in U.S watches on the internet = 186

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The average number of photos uploaded on facebook per year = 36 billion.

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Number of new users on Twitter in 2010 = 100 Million

Clearly, after Facebook, Twitter is the most fast growing website on the internet today.

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Fact for the day: 14-06-2012

Users of YouTube like Machinima, MysteryGuitarMan, Fred, collegehumor, and UniversalMusicGroup have millions of subscribers

More than 50% of videos on YouTube have been rated or include comments from the community

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Fact for the day: 13-06-2012

YouTube have signed over 10,000 advertising partners to date, including Disney, Turner, Univision and Channel 4 and Channel 5

Hundreds of partners are making six figures a year

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Fact for the day: 09-06-2012

The most watched music video in YouTube is Justin Bieber’s “Baby” which currently has over 536 million views

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Fact for the day: 9-05-2012

YouTube reached over 700 billion playbacks in 2010

They have signed over 10,000 advertising partners to date, including Disney, Turner, Univision and Channel 4 and Channel 5

Hundreds of partners are making six figures a year

There are over 7,000 hours of full-length movies and shows on YouTube

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Fact for the day: 8-05-2012

YouTube has more HD content than any other online video site

10% of YouTube’s videos are available in HD

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Fact for the day: 6-05-2012

Servey

Number of videos watched on Facebook is higher than YouTube. Approximately 2.5 Billion/day.

So, it’s clearly not YouTube that’s the leader in videos.

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Fact of the day: 4-05-2012

The average YouTube user visits the site 14 times per month

The average user spends an average of 25 minutes on the site each time they visit.

The average user spends 5 hours and 50 minutes per month (not as much as Facebook)

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Fact for the day: 3-05-2012

The domain name “Youtube” caused a huge misunderstanding for Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment. Its company domain, “utube.com,” was overwhelmed with traffic from people that tried to spell the video site’s name phonetically

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Fact for the day: 30-04-2012

YouTube was created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim in 2005 who were all employees of Paypal

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Fact for the day: 29-04-2012

 

The domain name YouTube.com was registered on Valentine’s Day in 2005

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Fact for the day: 28-04-2012

The first video on YouTube is of one of the co-founders Jawed Karim talking about elephant’s trunks titled “Me at the Zoo” shot at the San Diego Zoo.

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Experience Millions of Videos and Personalize on Dailymotion Video Streaming App for Android Devices

It is well known to all web users that YouTube has one of the widest networks in terms of video gallery. But if we talk about Dailymotion, you will be astonished with the statistics they have moved into and that now they have transformed all the great video watching experience into an android app so that now you can go on with your entertainment with daily motion videos on your android smart phones.

The new Daily motion app permits user to make a permanent account and to modify the dashboard to make a collective mixes of all their videos and channels much easily. The Daily motion app allows playing selected videos back to back like a playlist and easily tune to channels because this new feature will help in play selected videos more or less their priority the one selects which means that once a selected video finishes.

With the playback another related video or the video on the channel loop will automatically begin as this function enhances the uninterrupted streaming video service. This is the reason for many users who have found their fun it discovering this amazing app with the help of android market that comes with the source of getting this through free download. Therefore log in to android market and make blaze your way to stand against YouTube experience with all the redefined features.

Features:

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  The app has customized dashboard that has few swipes, edition modes for compiling songs, customize home screen that supports direct access to top channels, topics, content providers and single videos.


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  Here you can search all users, groups, videos and playlist in universal search that is provided with accurate search results.


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  The player has accelerometer that enhances the video and allows viewing vertically and horizontally and also has the ability to skip through videos while ensuring continues play.


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  There is a sharing option and can view video info by taping on the current video and comment while viewing the video.

Updatation in DailyMotion app:

1. 
   
   It has been updated to version 2.0.1.


2. 
   
   ‘No Internet Connection’ bug has been fixed.


3. 
   
   It’s completely different app where you can experience the immersive player, access your playlist, favorite users, and channels and add items to dashboard.


4. 
   
   Customize dashboard, new UI, universal search and follow users, playlist and more.

This is the leading app and has over 114 million visitors all over the world. You must download the video app and get fast and easy to use online services that automatically filter the infringing materials as notified by the content owner. Download the QR code to get the best possible entertainment experience.