Real announcements do happen on April 1st. See for example gmail [1], perhaps one of the most important product announcements in the last decade. Though I admi

Real announcements do happen on April 1st. See for example gmail [1], perhaps one of the most important product announcements in the last decade. Though I admit, I sometimes expect them to announce that it was a joke all along and shut it down. [1] http://googlepress.blogspot.ca/2004/04/google-gets-message-launches-gmail.html http://googlepress.blogspot.ca/2004/04/google-gets-message-l...