This article was written on January 01, 2008 by CyberNet.
–March 2007–
Personalized homepages were spotlighted in March with Yahoo completing a huge redesign for My Yahoo! and Google launching a variety of dramatically changing themes for their Personalized Homepages. Additionally, it was a rough month for YouTube after Viacom sued them for $1 Billion dollars. They also had to deal with being banned (and then unbanned) in Turkey and Thailand. Let’s take a look at those headlines:
Personalized Homepages:
- Google Themes for your Personalized Homepage Change with Time and Weather
- Easter Eggs Appear at 3:14 AM on Google Personalized Homepage
- Yahoo Redesigns Personalized Homepage, My Yahoo!
YouTube Troubles:
- Viacom Tries to Purge Google’s Money Bank with $1 Billion Lawsuit
- Turkey is Offended, Bans YouTube
- YouTube Unbanned from Turkey, but Banned in Thailand
–April 2007–
The month of April started out with a bunch of fooling! Thanks to April Fool’s day of course. Several sites decided to have some fun with this notable day of practical joking including Google with their “Free TiSP (Toilet Internet Service Provider) Broadband Internet, and ThinkGeek who claimed they were shipping the iPhone nearly three months early. Then of course there was the launch of Joost which caused quite the hype as well. Here’s a look at those headlines:
April Fools Day:
- Google’s 2007 April Fools Joke #2: Free TiSP Broadband Internet
- Google’s 2007 April Fools Joke: Gmail Paper Unlimited
- Slashdot Takes on Digg with Slashdottit
- ThinkGeek Shipping the iPhone
- The Pirate Bay Finds New Home in North Korea
- The Google Drive is Real?
- Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 Supports Mac OS X
- Woot Sells $1 Million Bag of Crap
Joost:
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