[via wronghands]
Category Archives: Web
Just as we did in 2011 and 2012, we will provide you with an overview of all the April Fools gags around the web. This post will be updated throughout the day.
Google Search
The Google Search team is excited to announce their newest addition to Search: Google Nose. What do wet dogs smell like? Google Nose! How about victory? Google Nose! Try searching on Google for “wet dog” and explore other smells that people sniffed for, or visit http://google.com/nose to learn more. Happy smelling!
Cleverbot.com has been touted as one of the most advanced artificial intelligences ever. The website allows users to chat with the A.I. Cleverbot. But how good is it, really? Chris Wilson sat down with Cleverbot and collaborated on a movie script.
[Via Youtube]
The Google Analytics team made a nice series of videos that shows what online shopping looks like in real life.
How popular is your favorite social network? It is important to know if it is on the rise or decline because well, what is the use of a SOCIAL network with no one on it? See which are on the rise and some interesting facts about who is on which social network with mashable.com’s Which Social Networks Take Home the Gold?
[Via coolinfographics]
When a squirrel chewed through a cable and knocked him offline, journalist Andrew Blum started wondering what the Internet was really made of. So he set out to go see it — the underwater cables, secret switches and other physical bits that make up the net.
[Via TED]
Blogger Neurosceptic is the first person to get a blogpost published into a peer-reviewed scientific journal. He posted an adaption of Dante’s Inferno, The Nine Circles of Scientific Hell, on his blog two years ago. Recently, the blog post he got published, under his blogger pseudonym, in the peer-reviewed journal Perspectives on Psychological Science. Below you find the illustration, which formed the basis of the paper. You can read the full paper/blogpost at Perspectives on Psychological Science.
