I put this post off until the end of the day - just to try and round as many up as possible. Here’s a rundown of announcements from today that we have identified as fiction:
Google’s GMail Paper allows you to send paper copies of your email to anyone and TiSP turns your toilet into a WiFi hotspot.
Yahoo launches the Underground. There’s not a real explanation of what this sites’ intent is and the it looks like as if was designed by a blind paraplegic. Pete Cashmore has pointed out some comments that might make this announcement a fact - for the sake of people payed to do design work, we hope this is fiction.
Eventful switches to an all Twitter powered back-end. The Eventful folks have already claimed this April Fools’ joke but just in case you were wondering - try to visit Twitter’s site and time how long it takes to load. Now, who in their right mind would power anything from that? It’s like running your car on snails in a rodent wheel.
Facebook has announced Live Poke - a service in which they actually send someone to poke your friends. The logistics of this make it an apparent joke.

Slashdot launched a new feature called Slashdottit. Of course, the thanks for voting takes you to a new page (not very user friendly) and the text is… well, it clearly makes fun of digg.
I’m sure you all have spotted others - be sure to point them out in the comments.
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