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This Week On The Internet #78

This week's highlights include:

x. A guide to today's nerdy April Fool's Day jokes

x. Skittles likes to be touched

x. The music and tech industries are feuding (again)

Enjoy!

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MEME/TECH: Your Guides to Nerd April Fool's Pranks

Google is hiring 'autocompleters', has launched 'gmail motion', is encouraging a new exercise trend called 'Chromercise' and is changing our browser font into comic sans (ew). A few other websites are also celebrating April Fool's Day today so to keep track of everything going on around the web check out the two guides below.

Gizmodo: http://gizmo.do/hbFatN

BuzzFeed: http://bzfd.it/g36NMa

Mashable: http://on.mash.to/hkfu62

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MEME: Touch the Rainbow

This week Skittles rolled out a new video campaign called 'Touch the Rainbow' in which viewers "interact" with each YouTube short by touching the screen. After the series of videos hit the web they became almost instantly viral. See what the fuss is about yourself at the link below.

YouTube: http://bit.ly/eFOFyv

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MUSIC: Amazon's Cloud Player Under Fire from Music Industry

The music industry is starting yet another feud- this time with Amazon.com which has just introduce their new Cloud Player. Allowing users to upload their playlists to Amazon's servers and then stream their music from any compatible device, the Cloud Player is rubbing music labels the wrong way.  

Mashable: http://on.mash.to/gTSrPV

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FASHION: Chanel Makeup Confidential Site Launches

To celebrate their beauty products and the launch of their spring 2011 beauty collection, Chanel has launched their 'Makeup Confidential' microsite. On the site, users can find out more about the collection, watch makeup tutorials, a video interview with Chanel's makeup creative director, download a Chanel screensaver and more.

Stylelist: http://aol.it/g3j3Cm