Best April Fool’s Day Pranks of 2010

This year’s top April first New Media pranks are:

1. Topeka – perhaps the highest profile prank of the year goes to the search king; Google renamed itself “Topeka” after the Kansas City named itself “Google” in a bid to get Google’s attention for testing its planned high speed network.  Another Google prank was TechCrunch’s report that Google is going nuclear.
Topeka Google

2. Obama’s Seder Invite – Bob Tedeschi at the New York Times wrote a popular post on a fake invite he tried to create to Obama’s Seder dinner using smart phone apps.

3. Starbuckets – the coffee giant “introduced” ridiculous new coffee sizes using online user generated, “crowd-sourced” ideas.

Starbuckets

4. Justin Bieber or Die – teamed up with comedy website FunnyOrDie.com. Lame.

Bieber Or Die