[img src="" caption="" credit="" alt=""]The big holiday story this week was that Meneame and CoRank, two Digg-like sites, were set to be acquired by Digg. Mashable brought the story to the English-speaking blogosphere thanks to a tip-off from a Spanish reader, but mails to both companies confirmed that Digg was not involved. And today, the two sites announced a merger to form "Menearank". Except that it's all a big joke. Here's a mail I received from CoRank yesterday, with the request that I kept things quiet until the joke played out:
Pete,
You may get tips that the news Meneame and coRank were to announce is that the two companies have merged. Don't write anything about it.
Why? Today is December 28th (in the US is still 27th but in Spain it's already 28th). Why is that significant? This day Spain celebrates the equivalent to April 1st in the US.