Every calendar year, this day makes us all happy – being a part of pranks galore. It has become a trend these days to sing the B'day song for people picked randomly. I waited for Google to open their File > New > ... Google has been using the day to launch serious products! Seriously! ;-)
In 2000, it was "MentalPlex" (http://www.google.com/mentalplex/). I also recollect a fictitious drink (forgot its name though).The drink was supposed to increase a person's intelligence. In 2K7, it was the Google Paper. They would print out emails and send them via traditional post! One can never forget the Toilet ISP. It was the whackiest concept ever! Last year it was the funny way to view YouTube, where you have to turn your monitor upside down and tilt your head upside down and then move to Australia..wierd humor! I also remember Orkut had someother name given to it (yup! Forgot the name). I heard that the YouTube page was upside-down for a while, though it didn't check out for me. Also in the news was CADIE - Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity. Some of CADIE's new features include auto-replying to emails received in your Gmail account, add red-eye to your pix on Picasa and the funnier Brain Search for your mobile.
It was good that the economic slowdown didn't spoil people's sense of humor. Even the fear of the prowling Conficker worm didn't spoil things for the techie. The worm woke up in Asia according to reports on cnet news.
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