YouTube TEXTp : Google April Fools Day 2010 Pranks

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We have had many hilarious and innovative Google’s April Fool’s Day Pranks till now.And I have been so curious to know what Google will do for this Aril Fools Day 2010 and this time Google has planned it in YouTube as well as the new blog post in YouTube official blog suggests.

YouTube’s TEXTp (YouTube ASCII video filter) :

Yeah, TEXTp according to fellows at YouTube is similar to video quality mode (like 1080p HD), but the difference being it doesn’t contain any picture in the video other than text, lol Smile

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!

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If you want to see letters dancing in air like how Dyslexia patients see them dancing Smile, just head over to this page and select “TEXTp” from the pull down menu in the video.

And do remember always to use text-only mode because :

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By using text-only mode, you are saving YouTube $1 a second in bandwidth costs.

[Hmm..Really ?? ]

To see how it looks like in action, watch this video

To fool your friends, append “&textp=fool” to the YouTube video URLs and share with them.

Ok then we will change YouTube’s name to TexTube from this time around, (of course fun :P)

This year’s other Google April Fools Day Hoaxes include :

 

  • Google Books available in Anachrome 3D
  • Store anything on Google Docs
  • Google Street View available in Anachrome 3D
  • Google Maps OCCA
  • Search results generated in different times
  • Animal Translator BETA
  • Topeka

Finally, this TEXTp is just ok Thumbs down, but didn’t reach my expectation though, something on the lines of Pigeon Rank (my favorite Google April Day Prank till now) would only have satisfied me Wink.And ya, Google fellows consider my advice: Textube sounds good Thumbs up, isn’t it??

Is this fun, what do you guys think ? Happy Fools Day, BTW Hot

R.I.P Internet Explorer 6 !

Funny :

A Denver based design group is conducting funeral for Internet Explorer 6, the 8 year old browser.

The design group is even conducting mass funeral for IE 6.IE 6 sustained major injuries from its rival browsers and is not in a position to compete with them, according to the design group.IE 6 was born on August 27, 2001 and died on March 1, 2010 🙁

[It’s also noteworthy that YouTube is going to stop IE 6 support from March 13, 2010].

Event organisers has started a new website http://ie6funeral.com/ and a brand new Twitter account http://twitter.com/ie6funeral to promote this mass funeral event.

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The most interesting part of this funeral is the flowers sent by Microsoft ( pic )

So on this historic occasion, let us recall the sweet memories of our grand ma IE6, comment your moments with IE6.

R.I.P IE6