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April 2, 2009

Twitter is for… Plants?

Filed under: News,Random Thoughts — Tags: , , , , — Kris @ 7:34 am
Pothos on Twitter

Pothos on Twitter

It seems that nearly every day someone is figuring out a way to plug another object of their into Twitter.  It’s pretty interesting to watch, because creativity can run wild when you put your mind to figuring out ways that an object can send a 140-character message to you.

This latest one is very simple, but pretty unique:

Meet Pothos.

Kate Hartman and Rob Faludi of New York University decided to make a system that allows a plant to tell its owner, via Twitter, that it needs water.

The idea is actually a continuation of an older idea from 2007, where Hartman and Faludi made a system that called its owner over the telephone:

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March 27, 2009

Google AdSense Now Officially Twittering @adsense

Filed under: News — Tags: , , , — Kris @ 12:03 am

Beginning on March 23rd of this year, the Google AdSense team registered their “Official” Twitter Account @adsense.

Their first post was a bit interesting:

Ads by 47 6F 6F 6F 6F 6F 6F 6F 67 6C 65

(For those of you interested, if you convert the hex codes to ASCII, it reads “Ads by Gooooooogle”.  This is the tagline that shows at the bottom of all AdSense ads)

So what does this mean, and why would Google AdSense officially take part in Twitter?  Are they going to start tweeting ads?

Thankfully, no.  At least, not yet.

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