Ded, or Dustin Diaz, is another such Google employee who has defected himself to Twitter and twitted this:

I think it’s too early to tell if Twitter will be the next Google or not but certainly if Twitter keeps employee-napping Googlers, Twitter just might become the next Google.

According to Googlers:

“It’s kind of shocking we couldn’t keep him,” another Googler tells us, calling Diaz “one of the best frontend developers around.” But of course, Twitter is the hot new company, just like Facebook was months back when it was stealing employees left and right from larger companies — like Google.

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I don’t think this paper Twitter comes close enough to mimicking the real Twitter but heck, this is the best Paper Twitter I’ve seen one so far, it even comes with “tags”…which is weird.

Don’t forget to check out the Paper E-mail too, hilarious.

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You can see an example of it working on Twitter here.  You will find interesting messages such as “URGENT water me.” and “Thank you for watering me”.

I can see how this Botanicalls device and Twitter can both benefit remote control of all your garden plants and maybe there will be similar devices for lawns.

Twitter, sorta medium between e-mail and IM, serves as the perfect communication medium for monitoring stuff including the garden, your home applicances, and probably more to come.

This $99 Twitter gadget might be just what you need to monitor your plants while you are traveling so you can tell your spouse or your kids to “WATER THE DAMN PLANTS!”.

Here’s a video of the demo:

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To date, Hartman and Faludi have sold nearly 100 of the Botanicalls kits for $99 each with the device needing to be assembled from basic parts which Faludi said can be challenging but worthwhile in the end.

“Actually receiving a message from a plant is just very engaging, and I think kind of unexpected. There’s a magic to it that people really enjoy,” said Faludi.

via eco blog

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