{"id":11875,"date":"2013-04-08T14:30:54","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T12:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=11875"},"modified":"2013-04-08T14:30:54","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T12:30:54","slug":"la-poste-parrot-deliver-april-fools-day-joke-that-us-bloggers-fall-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2013\/04\/la-poste-parrot-deliver-april-fools-day-joke-that-us-bloggers-fall-for\/","title":{"rendered":"La Poste & Parrot deliver April Fools Day joke that US bloggers fall for and subsequently declare April Fools Day dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Roflcopter\"Last week you may have heard a story about La Poste delivering newspapers using Parrot AR Drones<\/a>\u00a0– this of course was a hoax put on by the two companies<\/a>\u00a0in the spirit of April Fools day; however, despite the conveniently timed announcement, it seems several US & French blogs fell victim to the hoax, including VentureBeat, The Atlantic, Business Insider & others.<\/p>\n

The story came in a year when it seems tech bloggers have collectively decided that April Fools Day was no longer cool. With pranks like Netflix including a category dedicated to films where Nicolas Cage freaks out (a montage to this viral YouTube video<\/a> which compiles all the scenes in which cage “loses his shit”), and Google announcing a suite of fake features and products, to me it seemed like yet another year of good ol’ fashion fun.<\/p>\n

Sure, some companies are using it a bit more as a way to push their brand, latest product, or whatever – but isn’t that the spirit of almost every holiday? Shameless marketing born out of a sincere joy had by a few many years ago? I still find a simple pleasure in remembering XKCD’s terminal code a few years back, or Google’s great video about the guys who deliver search suggestions in real-time – what’s even more great is that more & more countries are getting involved.<\/p>\n

Parrot’s and La Poste’s prank was probably the first real Internet April Fools Day prank to get international attention, and hopefully it will build as a tradition in France and other countries. Moreover, let’s not forget one astonishing fact of this whole story: that the giant La Poste group managed to coordinate with a startup for a common purpose that didn’t involve sucking the\u00a0life force\u00a0out of the startup. I think that’s a win in and of itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week you may have heard a story about La Poste delivering newspapers using Parrot AR Drones\u00a0– this of course was a hoax put on by the two companies\u00a0in the spirit of April Fools day; however, despite the conveniently timed announcement, it seems several US & French blogs fell victim to the hoax, including VentureBeat,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":11877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}