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http://members.dandy.net/~czg/search.html

Once the phone carrier is determined, add the relevant mobile email addresses to the phone number.

Alltel yourphonenumber@message.alltel.net
AT&T yourMmodeUsername@mymmode.com (changed from yourphonenumber@mobile.att.net)
Cingular yourphonenumber@mobile.mycingular.com
Nextel yourphonenumber@messaging.nextel.com
Sprint yourphonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com
SunCom yourmobilenumber.sms@tritonpcs
T-mobile yourphonenumber@tmomail.com
Telus Mobility yourphonenumber@msg.telus.com
VoiceStream yourphonenumber@voicestream.net
Verizon yourphonenumber@vtext.com

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A Japanese marine biologist and educator named Masamichi Hayashi has developed a new aspect of education. He has created some one hundred life-like, hand-made fish bots constructed from all kinds of recycled objects, including everything under the sun from discarded rainwear to windscreen wipers.

A few of the larger fish bot models can open and close their mouths and eat artificial “prey”!

Read more here: http://www.weirdasianews.com/2010/01/20/children-learn-sea-life-teacher-fish-bots/

Speak to your Moshi Alarm Clock with no training or programming!

Moshi Alarm Clocks are equipped with Technology that Listens™. Moshi's Technology that Listens™ or Voice Control (VC) Technology utilizes a unique blend of two speech recognition models resulting in a user-friendly interface that allows you to speak to your alarm clock with no training nor programming.

More here: http://www.moshilifestyle.com

Link: http://www.reuters.com/article/wiredGadgets/idUS2965808920091214

Having played with it briefly myself, this phone is amazing! The video on my post, http://www.galido.net/blog/index.php/coolblog/2009/12/14/jingle-bells-played-backwards was captured by this particular phone.

Has great potential to beat the iPhone. Google's new "Nexus One" Smartphone is Andriod-based, so now's the time to start developing your own Android apps as they are said to work on this phone! Said to be sold unlocked by Google themselves so that you can use with any GSM carrier.

More Links:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/14/technology/companies/14gphone.html

http://blogs.zdnet.com/cell-phones/?p=2731

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/connect/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501833&objectid=10615470

Link: http://www.galido.net/blog/index.php/coolblog/2009/12/14/jingle-bells-played-backwards

See original post: Jingle Bells Backwards

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92zf7w4lP08

This is an SEO tactic experiment using an existing popular search term/video, "Backwards Jingle Bells" (a term that gets about 12k queries/mo.) and putting in my own "Jingle Bells Backwards" video to "leech" off that search. So here we go.

Step 1 - Anchor Links:
Now implementing some SEO by putting in some variations of anchor text linking to the videos. This will help Google pick up my videos with the search term "Backwards Jingle Bells" and "Jingle Bells Backwards". (note: there are duplicate videos with unique links for exposure and to be able to repost on various sites, both linked here)

Backwards Jingle Bells

Jingle Bells Backwards

In addition to these, I will do the same concept on other high ranking sites.

Step 2 - Post video/content relevant to the original video and use the same titles and similar tags:

We've created our video content and I've posted the video content on Youtube (the guy playing is me). I use the same titles as the original video, along with some similar descriptions. Now I wait to test and see what kind of traffic this picks up. I will post results in a month.

Update: Keyword "Jingle Bells backwards" takes the lead! Amazing!

Credits: Taken with the new Google phone (not yet available to the public) by my good friend MC. Clear video!

The original "Backwards Jingle Bells".

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