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Here’s my ranking of this year’s Top 3 April Fools’ jokes related to technology:

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Google Translate for Animals

More than likely you already know that Google has changed its name to Topeka, but there is a news that is even cooler than that (at least in the opinion of one given linguist, and animal-lover).

While being extremely anti-machine-translation, I love Google Translate. It is obvious how much effort has been put into creating this quality product. But guess what?! Now there’s also a Google Translate for Animals, a new Android application which “translates animal speech into human vernacular”. Here’s how it works:

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YouTube Goes Text-Only

On March 31 YouTube announced a revolutionary development: you may now choose to switch from HD to text-only (or TEXTp):

TEXTp is the result of months of intense transcoding efforts by our engineers, who toiled for weeks to ensure that a large chunk of videos on the platform could be reduced to their most basic elements. By replacing the images in the video with a series of letters and numbers, the videos are far less taxing on our system — and have the added benefit of promoting literacy! …For every person who selects TEXTp and keeps it on while you watch a video, you save YouTube $1 a second, resulting in potentially billions of dollars of savings for us. So if you care about YouTube, you’ll use TEXTp today

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Toshiba Introduces TubeTop

The world’s first  inflatable laptop is here! Thanks to Toshiba’s latest development “in aquatic computing”, affiliate marketers can now work right in their jacuzzis, the pool, or even in the ocean. More here:

Have I missed your favorite April Fools’ joke? Please post about it in the comments area below.

We’ve received 20 entries for the 400th Day Contest: Computer & Internet Jokes. It’s time to choose the winners, and I need your help with this. I’m posting a public poll below, and inviting you to vote for your favorite joke(s).

The poll will be open from now until 02/25/2010, and it is a multiple options poll — so please check all of the jokes that you like before hitting that “Vote” button:

Best of luck to all the participants, and looking forward to announcing the winners!!

It seems like this has been just yesterday, but another 100-day period has passed, and since in the course of it I have consistently blogged at least once a day, I feel like it’s a good time to celebrate. Yes, we’re gonna have another contest!! This time we have over $1,000 worth of prizes from 7 different sponsors, and I would like to thank them all for contributing.

On this 400th day of my non-stop blogging I think it is good to have some laughing fun, and the contest I’m starting now is going to be about jokes. The details, rules, and information on prizes may be found below…

– CONTEST RULES –

1. Topic: computer & Internet-related jokes (jokes about developers, webmasters, online marketers, web analysts, and anyone related to computers or e-commerce qualify!)
2. Restrictions and details: 1 joke per comment, no more than 3 jokes per contestant
3. Deadline: to participate in the contest, post your jokes by February 19, 2010
4. Further process: once all entries are in, I will post a poll so that people could vote for their favorite jokes. The poll will run from 02/19 till 02/25/2010 which is when the winners will be announced
5. Prizes: we will have three prizes (details below)

– PRIZES –

1st Place

• Gold Pass (~ $280 value) to Affiliate Summit East 2010 [affiliate program: on ShareASale]

and:

• Course of your choice (value $249-269) from Legacy Learning Systems [affiliate program: on ShareASale]

2nd Place

• $100 gift certificate from JensonUSA.com [affiliate program: on ShareASale]

and:

• $100.00 gift certificate from UpscaleLighting.com [affiliate program: on ShareASale and Google].

3rd Place

• $50 gift card from DaySpring [affiliate program: on Commission Junction]

and:

• $25 gift card from LCI Paper [affiliate program: coming up]

Additionally, each of the above three winners will also receive an Estrella Journey ring (~$90.00 value + free shipping) from TopJewels.com [affiliate program: coming up].

Looking forward to reading your entries!