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Want some free MobileMammoth schwag? Guess the sale price of the Find.mobi domain, and as long as you are among the three closest guesses, you win!
Since there are only a couple entires so far, your chances of winning are VERY HIGH. There are only 4 days left, so get your entry in today!
Enter here.
May 15th, 2008
A month after we highlighted the find.mobi mobile search site, dotMobi is putting it up for sale. As reported in a press release on Wednesday, the site has “outgrown the lab”, and is now ready to deliver “significant value” to the buyer.
How much do you think it will go for? $500,000? $1,000,000? More?
Note from the press release all that buyers might be getting:
dotMobi is soliciting proposals for the disposal of all or parts of the find.mobi assets, which include the mobile web site (find.mobi), web crawler algorithm and code, mobile site detection algorithm and code, parking / landing page detection algorithm and code, adult content classifier learning algorithm and code, and the find.mobi name / site address.
Submit your guess in a comment to this post by Monday, May 19, 2008. The top 3 entries closest to the published sale amount will win a MobileMammoth T-Shirt! All entries must be posted by 11:59pm ET (GMT -0500) on May 19.
Mobile Website:
find.mobi
May 2nd, 2008
Want to win a t-shirt in 5 minutes? It’s easy, but you must act today.
Today, February 9, is the last day to comment on our recent mobile web post and win a t-shirt in the process.
The post, titled 71 Ways to Make the Mobile Web Work for You, offers a number of ways the mobile web can help make your life easier. Add a high-quality comment to that post, and you stand a great chance of winning a prized, limited edition MobileMammoth t-shirt.
Comment away and good luck!
February 9th, 2008
In case you have not checked lately, there are a host of mobile sites and services that are making everyday life easier for thousands of people just like us. To highlight just a sample, I compiled the following list of 71 things you can do from your mobile phone.
I wanted to make this interactive, so I temporarily left the links off of a few items. Why? So that we can learn from you and everyone else out there. If you have recommendations for what mobile sites or tools to use to accomplish any of the items below, leave a comment to this post and share your knowledge. After February 9, ten of the highest quality commenters will be sent a free MobileMammoth t-shirt, AND I will add the links to the remaining items in the list.
Happy mobile browsing…
71 Ways to Make the Mobile Web Work For You
- Use text messaging to solve a crime
- Confirm flight departure time en route to airport (mobile site)
- Play Brady Bunch Kung Fu!. (Sprint users only)
- Browse Flickr photos (mobile site)
- Call your spouse from your bank to confer on a new account (wait - you can’t do that at First National Bank in Chicago).
- Get a text alert when your Google stock reaches
$500 $600 a share
- Get an alert if your kid wanders off-campus
- Transfer money between your bank accounts
- Play music stored on your PC
- Listen to “The One Minute Manager” on audio book
- Prevent drunk driving (and drunk phone calls too)
- Get Radiated? (We hope not!)
- Use your phone as a modem for your laptop (great when you’re stuck in a hotel)
- Check the weather (mobile site)
- Cheat at chess (wait — don’t do that!)
- Go moblogging
- Get more done
- Watch a BoSox-Yankees game
- Play a Texas Hold ‘em tournament
- Pay your parking meter
- Watch a new music video
- Upload pictures & video to the Web in seconds
- Take Spanish lessons
- Over your messaging limits on your wireless plan? Send text messages, for free
- Better yet, send a comic message!
- Send map and directions directly to your cell phone
- Make your own mobile website
- Check your email
- Check your favorite blogs via Bloglines or Google Reader (both are mobile sites)
- Send a text message to your sister in Tokyo
- Send a video message to your spouse
- Play Madden NFL 08 on your cell phone
- Instant-Message your Mom on Mother’s Day
- Avoid the 5 car pile-up on your way home (best traffic site anyone?)
- Track your UPS package
- Check the TV listings
- Receive SPIN magazine on your mobile phone
- Locate your buddy
- Do a Yahoo image search
- Watch last night’s episode of Lost
- Listen to your favorite podcast
- Research a client on your way to a meeting
- Listen to NPR live (mSpot Radio)
- Watch highlights from the Olympics
- Do a Google search for your favorite mobile websites
- Watch a BareNakedLadies concert
- Listen to your local radio station
- Backup your Motorola phone directory
- Watch your favorite movie
- Phone stolen? Next time, Lock it
- Find a wifi hotspot
- Laptop crashed during a presentation? Run a slidehow from your mobile phone.
- Get injury alerts and win your fantasy league
- Find out your favorite PGA player’s tee time on your way to the Masters
- Try your hand at the NYTimes crossword puzzle
- Get NHL scoring updates by text message
- Get stock quotes on demand
- Get live score updates by selecting a sport here, then putting that RSS URL into FEED2MOBILE
- Update your fantasy line-up while shopping with your girlfriend/boyfriend/spouse
- Get tonight’s TV lineup
- Get your Maxim mobile fix (flash required)
- Get your soap opera fix
- Play ESPN Poker
- Play a scenario game
- Get your CEOExpress to go
- Make your own wallpaper for your mobile phone
- Text message your questions at 30,000 feet
- Get alerted when your child’s school closes early for snow (or any other reason)
- View a Google Map
- Access your GMail account
- Call your mom (Remember voice calls?!)
I hope you are able to find at least a few gems here that make your life a little easier. I worked on this list for a while, so hopefully all the links are still active!
As always, get your daily mobile website right here.
January 24th, 2008
About a month ago, we started giving away our new MobileMammoth t-shirts to new email subscribers to our RSS feed. We’ve had two lucky winners so far, and are about to give away a third (hint: subscribe soon after this post and you could be #3…).
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November 7th, 2007
Congratulations to Shubham, our Mobile Website contest winner! Shubham beat out 9 other entries to win the $100 prize. All our entrants will be receiving a MobileMammoth.com t-shirt as well.
View all 10 entries, and check out some of the fantastic mobile websites mentioned. Thanks again to all who entered!
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September 26th, 2007
There are only 24 hours left to vote in the Mobile Website Submission contest.
So far, Shubham has a large lead over Andrew, with Melvyn rounding out the top 3. All votes must be made by 11:59PM EST Tuesday night, September 25. There is still time left, so take a look at the entries here and then cast your vote for the best mobile website submissions!
September 24th, 2007
It’s time to vote for your favorite entry in our Mobile Website Submission contest. The contestants have submitted over 50 mobile websites, including some real gems!
Continue reading to view the entries and vote for your fave!
The entries are listed below in the order they were submitted. The entry with the most votes by 11:59pm next Tuesday, September 25, wins. Anyone can vote, so feel free to hit your friends up for a vote. Good luck!
Vote for one of the following contestants (scroll down to view entries):
1. Melvyn, 2007-08-08
My 5 favorite mobile sites (in no particular order):
Google Reader Mobile
I tried various mobile RSS reading applications but the lack of a sync with the
desktop made a web based solution the only practical way forward.
Digg via DiggRiver
It’s simply a very nicely formatted way to read Digg on the move.
NetVibes home page
Customized exactly to my needs this is by far the cleanest, quickest and most
reliable start page I’ve found for my PDA. Google’s mobile /ig page cannot begin
to compete with this established brand in web portals.
A cut-down mobile friendly IMDB
search
As a film buff I hate the fact that there’s no live version of IMDB for mobile
users. This comes pretty damned close.
Picasa Mobile
Another Google mobile page that replaced a mobile application on my device. Why
carry a picture viewer when I’m already carrying a browser? My pics are in my
Picasa account and I can simply open this Favorite URL and check them out or
bring them up on screen to show friends.
2. Dean, 2007-08-14
http://mobilised.net/ - It’s like ‘Digg’ for mobile sites. Registered users can submit, tag, vote/bury & comment mobile links/news. Submit links directly from mobile browser via Twitter-SMS
http://m.mystrands.com/ - music recommendations
http://mobile.jajah.com/mobilemini/ - free/cheap voip calls
http://wap.sensis.com.au - Australian local search
http://ski.com.au/wap/index.xhtml - Australian ski reports
3. Thorsten, 2007-08-17
- http://m.box.net/ 5 GB free online storage
- http://www.pandora.com/on-the-go?from_home=1 Pandora personal internetradio mobile
- http://google.com if you surf to with your mobilephone you get a special mobile page
- http://m.youtube.com/ youtubevideos on the go
- http://m.flickr.com/ Picture sharing webpage
4. Shubham, 2007-08-19
wattpad
To read stories and ebooks on my mobile, online as well as offline. I can also send the stories I like to my friends.
HOOQs
Download video clips directly to your mobile and also play streaming video channels. visit their site on internet and subscribe to receive links to clips of the day on various subjects (comedy, movie trailers, animals, news, sports etc..etc.. www.hooqs.com), Also create your own channels and share them and your favourite videos to your friends.
FeedM8
Follow your favourite RSS reefs on your personalised feed page, Not required to signup or login, just bookmark your personalised page.
DS effects
Apply cool animated effects to the pictures you take with your mobile (VGA resolution only, sadly), upload your picture and see how cool the members feel you look. Download FX effects for MMS and also download JMS (Java messages) to send cool animated personalised messages to near and dear ones. Many other cool features too.
www.5min.com
Send great how to videos and Do-It-yourself tutorial videos directly to your or your friend’s mobile phones. If you use Opera Mini (or Opera Mini 4 beta) you can use it to receive the videos to your mobile, from your mobile.
5. Ruben Khare, 2007-08-27
I have submitted five site of mobile
www.funmaza.com
www.bestmobileworld.com
www.mobilemania.com
www.funnymobilez.com
www.getjar.com
(Edited by MobileFreak to list the five sites submitted by Ruben Khare)
6. Dennis, 2007-08-29
My nominations.
1) MSN Mobile (http://mobile.msn.com/) - I’m not a Microsoft fanboy. I think Vista and “Plays for Sure†and “Windows Genuine Advantage†are all abominations. But the the MSN mobile team has been doing some awesome stuff lately. The MSN mobile portal blows away Yahoo, Google and AOL’s efforts in News, Weather, Sports, Maps, Directions and Entertainment. Check out the Live MLB coverage (Fox Sports > MLB > Todays Games > Details). Every Spaces blog comes with a mobile version enabled by default. The MSNBC News section is the best US based mobile news site in terms of depth of coverage. MSN’s weak areas are search and email, but the rest rocks.
2) Bloglines (http://bloglines.com/mobile) - Buggy but in combination with Opera Mini still the best way to read RSS feeds on a mobile.
3) Mowser.com (http://mowser.com/) This site came out of nowhere to offer a transcoder to challenge Google and Skweezer plus it’s meta-search engine, a portal and a bookmarking service (too bad it doesn’t work with Opera Mini bookmarklets). Watch this space, I bet Russ has some more mobile magic up his sleaves.
4) Mobilised (http://mobilised.net/) - The first mobile bookmarking site that actually works for me. Use it with the Opera Mini Bookmarklet. This site as the potential to be THE mobile Digg, IF it achieves critical mass.
5) Classic Google Mobile Search (http://www.google.com/m?pref=s&uipref=2) The original, still available at that exact url, not the new version that buries mobile web results under tons of transcoded content.
7. Andrew, 2007-08-30
1) Flight Stats - The most complete airline site there is period! They have Flight Status, Departures & Arrivals, Flight Status by Route, Flight Alerts, Airline Info, Airport Info, Security Wait times, Weather, Current Airport Delays . A must for any frequent flyer!
2) Bank of America Mobile - This site offers information on any Bank of America type of account, online banking and bill payment, and branch and ATM locator.
3) FatWallet - Shopping forums that contain the best freebies and discounts that can be found online, over the phone or in the stores.
4) Wikipedia - Access the worlds largest online encyclopedia on your mobile.
5) FunForMobile
(edited 8/30/07 by MobileFreak)
8. Salvador, 2007-08-30
· wireless.getjar.com Software for mobile.
· wap.langtolang.com: Translator
· wap.dw-world.de The international news
· wap.sitioswap.com Directory WAP for the Spanish-speaking community
· www.xtalfree.com Mobile content
9. Pachauri, 2007-09-06
wap.mobango.com
wap.mobixie.com
share and download free mobile media, videos, images, games, tones, softwares&applications.
m.Ixenland.com
www.mocospace.com
2 top mobile social networking sites
www.movly.com
download 3gp movie trailers, read reviews of movies and participate in movie forums.
10. shashib, 2007-09-09
My favorites:
http://www.google.com/reader
( best way to use your time when you are commuting)
http://m.facebook.com
( Keeping track of your facebook life when mobile)
http://www.skweezer.net
http://www.phonifier.com
renders any website mobile
http://www.buildmymobi.com
A easy tool to build websites for mobile devices
September 17th, 2007
Due to recent technical difficulties at our hosting provider, several folks were unable to submit their contest entries on time. As a result, we are extending the deadline of the Mobile Website Submission Contest to Sunday, September 9, 2007.
Thank you for your patience, and be sure to check out the fantastic entries (there are some real gems in those entries)!
September 1st, 2007
Edit: Note the deadline has been extended to Sunday, September 9.
Today is the LAST DAY to enter our Mobile Website contest for your chance to win $100 cash!
Enter to win by adding your five mobile websites as a comment on this page. Good luck!
August 31st, 2007
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