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Today we broke the magical 100000 mark. Now there is over 100000 different bluetooth devices sent to the service. Yeah!

Now that we are starting a new year, it’s about time to write in here also. Like last year I draw a simple picture showing how the past year went. In the picture, you can see how many devices have been sbotted, starting all the way from January 2006 when there were only 30000 devices, to the current status when we have almost 100000 devices sbotted.

(Click the picture to make it bigger.)

May the year 2007 be favourable to all sbotters and bring plenty of new sbotttings and other good things also. Happy New Year to Everybody!

If you happen to like Google Earth, you can see from following links botsbot.com places and users from it.

PS. Sorry for not updating so often in here.

Like now I also started my summer vacation and I started planning and doing the botsbot.com site. Time flies!

I’ve wondered for a while why there aren’t similar services to botsbot.com other than some academic experiments. It seems that now this is going to change. This Danish service/company imity sounds very much like botsbot.com.

It’s not open yet but I guess soon it will be open for all. Based on the presentation it looks pretty good too.

The new front page shows places from where members have sbotted during the last 4 hours. It’s a sort of mini B-Map.

If you don’t want to install CopyPaste-service mobile application to your phone, you don’t need to do that. You copy and paste text with the mobile browser also. Just point your mobile browser to the CopyPaste site.

The mobile application is still perhapse easier way to move text around and you don’t necessarily need to login separately to the service as it remembers your username and password.

I did a short investigation (used my 19594 sbotted devices as the data) of the different Finnish mobile phone names people are using in their bluetooth names, for example Jaska’s phone. This is the results:

• Phone 77 (number of devices including “phone”)
• Luuri 73
• Puhelin 65
• Känny 57
• Kapula 13
• Kännykkä 9
• Mobiili 3

Surprisingly “phone” won the competition even it’s not a Finnish term like “kännykkä” or “luuri”.

Not surprising that people took and shared a lot of photos about VR makasiinit fire yesterday. Currently flickr.com has something like 500 600 700 photos already.

I’m sure there were also many videos taken yesterday. Does anybody know where people send those if they wanted to share those?

UPDATE: I found couple of videos from YouTube site.

UPDATE2: Now YouTube allows you to create mobile upload profile which allows you to send MMS/e-mail messages with video to your YouTube account.

UPDATE3: More updates…I just learned that Vimeo allows to upload videos by sending MMS/e-mail to a special e-mail address.

UPDATE4: This seems to continue…Read from this blog that with Operan browser you can upload videos directly to the YouTube-site. I tried with Nokia 6630 own browser and Opera mini but couldn’t upload to the site for some strange reason. Also tried to send MMS to the address and it hasn’t show up yet.

I didn’t realise this at first but you can also use CopyPaste-service for preparing a shopping list. Type the list in PC (”Copy”) and take it with you to the shop in your mobile (”Paste”).

Your better half can even do it for you while you are going to the shop .