Google unveiled an exciting new project today - the TiSP project (aka Project Teaspoon). In typical Google tradition, they're pioneering a truly innovative use of basic infrastructure that already exists in every home to provide free wireless access for everyone! How cool is that?
The Project TiSP home page describes this wonderful new product as follows:
Google TiSP (BETA) is a fully functional, end-to-end system that
provides in-home wireless access by connecting your commode-based TiSP
wireless router to one of thousands of TiSP Access Nodes via
fiber-optic cable strung through your local municipal sewage lines.
This brand new project was announced by Michael Krantz and Marissa Mayer today, April 1, 2007, on the official Google blog. Here at Software Abstractions, we applaud Google for this fascinating new initiative that combines the concepts of organic, recycling and multi-tasking in a whole new way!
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Update: Speaking of April Fool's jokes, there's another interesting one going around. ContextWeb's press release today talks up the idea of web publishers wasting their ad dollars by "flushing them down the toilet" (interesting coincidence with Google TiSP) by not demanding higher prices for the ads that run on their site. You can find the press release here, complete with references to the Sloof Lirpa Center for the Study of Long Tail Profitability and MoreMoneyThanAdSense.com . :-)
(There's also an accompanying photograph, which you can find here. )
Jokes aside, I think ContextWeb has an interesting message - if you're a web publisher, it seems well worth your while to check out their Ad Network, especially with their guaranteed CPM Rates approach.
[Disclaimer: I haven't personally tried them out, this comment is based simply on what I read on their site.]
A good
April Fools joke can be an effective marketing tool.
