Laughing at Travel Tech - April Fool roundup

Another year, another round of April Fool's Day efforts, many agonised over and tinkered with for weeks and weeks beforehand (seen the emails many, many times).

Here is a selection of some of the better offerings from the travel and tech worlds [updating as they come in...]:

• Travel between time zones to be taxed from 2012 [TimeAndDate.com]
• Google inadvertently classifies Google Places as a "Content Farm" and removes from search index [TechCrunch]
• Insurance for independent & adventurous travelers in the next life [WorldNomads]
• Groupon patents April Fool's Day [Groupon]
• Top 5 viral pictures of 1911 [YouTube]

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• British Airways to celebrate Royal Wedding with special liveries [FlightGlobal]
• 25 amazing new destinations (including ObeCity) [Wanderfly]
• Mr & Mrs Smith appointed by UK government to fund hotel vouchers to help save marriages [Mr & Mrs Smith]
• Child free flights from October 2011 [Ryanair]
• North Korea blog trip announcement [501 Places]
• Oxford English Dictionary overhauls travel words [WHL Group]
• Rolling online travel agencies back to the 1990s [Sunshine.co.uk]
• Hobo caravanning holidays (tramping) take off [PitchUp]
• iPhone5 to feature scent recognition [MacWorld]
• Air New Zealand pay-per-weight tariff [Air New Zealand]
• Spotify announces US launch, closing European service to fund it [TechCrunch]
• Ewetravelcom.com, comfortable and affordable travel for sheep [Youtravel]
• 3D wireframes, the future of wireframing today? [CXPartners]
• Search for "Helvetica" in Google search [Google]
• Planet of the Apps [The Sun]
• 3D digital radio [BBC Radio 3]
• Launch of child-only carrier Urchin Airlines [Skyscanner]
• GMail add motion feature [Google]

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