This is clearly some kind of April Fool’s Joke by Robert Scoble: Apple Collaborating with Amazon, Google, and Cingular on a new iReader; but it’s odd that a) he wrote it on March 31st and b) he broke his very serious silence two days early with a long, drawn out, not very believable April Fools Day joke.

In other possible April Fools day news, Google Operating System is claiming that Google is getting set to launch a new closed beta product dubbed ‘Google Writer’. Maybe I’m a moron, but part of me thinks this actually sounds kind of interesting: Google trying to cure writer’s block.

Is March 31st the new April Fool’s Day?

[UPDATE]: And here’s Google’s own prank this year for April Fools: Gmail Paper!

[UPDATE 2]: usr/bin/geek’s hot tip on Apple launching multi-touch on Apple monitors, iMacs, and MacBook Pros.

[UPDATE 3]: As Mr. Scoble was nice enough to point out in the comments, Mike Arrington of TechCrunch did in fact kick-start the early April Fools Joke-a-thon with his announcement of buying FuckedCompany.com…

[UPDATE 4]: The frontpage of Digg is already in full April Fools Day mode with at least 4 of the current top stories being obvious jokes (Pirate Bay to be hosted on North Korean servers in Sweden after lengthy discussions with Kim Jong-Il, ha.)

[UPDATE 5]: Yahoo Underground? Is this a joke? I sure hope so.

[UPDATE 6]: The HDMI-enabled, 160 GB hard drive all black Wii-volution! Why would you even need the HDMI since the Wii doesn’t support HD graphics?

[UPDATE 7]: Bungie announced Halo Zero. The role-playing Halo.

[UPDATE 8]: Google’s other prank, Project Teaspoon. Google TiSP (Beta): wireless broadband through your house’s plumbing.

[UPDATE 9]: Slashdot has perhaps the ugliest Digg-style voting system ever. Have they ever heard of padding-right?

[UPDATE 10]: Technorati has some crazy new names on page reload: chinaoTter, haterTonic, niceThroat, etc.

[UPDATE 11]: Microsoft’s Penguin Adoption 2007. “A year ago, nobody would have expected Microsoft to have a penguin program in place. But my innovative and envelope-pushing work is changing all that”

[UPDATE 12]: Skype for Cows 3.2. Has a nice grass theme.

[UPDATE 13]: Reddit installs censors for their site, or as they call them: “memory holes”. Sounds like they’re poking fun at the recent Internet comment melee: “Then we got fed up seeing comments about things we didn’t want discussed.”

[UPDATE 14]: CrunchGear is looking like a MySpace page. And all of their posts are fake: iTunes Subscription service – RIAA to drop all lawsuits, finds Jesus – Sony concedes that the Wii is better…

[UPDATE 15]: This one is really evil. The “Official Google Drive Blog” announcing the launch of Google Drive. Do not tease us so. Love the slogan: “Backup your data daily to ensure they are available when needed”…data is now a ‘they’?

[UPDATE 16]: Leo Laporte is reporting that G4 television has bought TWiT…which is humorous of course because G4 did take over Laporte’s old stomping ground, TechTV, a few years back. “The synergy between G4’s smokin’ babes and classic TV series, and the TWiTs high end tech knowledge will allow us to reach a vast audience of teenage boys and disaffected computer programmers.”