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Thanksgiving is right around the corner, and now there’s a mobile website that lets you find that award winning stuffing recipe right on your mobile device.
Epicurious offers a mobile website that lets you search more than 25,000 recipes, save the recipes you want to a favorites folder, and create a shopping list based on the ingredients. The service, dubbed EpiToGo, works on phones running on AT&T Wireless, Cellular One, Nextel, Sprint, T-Mobile, US Cellular, or Verizon Wireless carriers.
Still can’t get enough food info from the mobile website? Try their Epi Bytes service, which delivers weekly text messages to your cell phone. You’ll find more information on both mobile services here.
Mobile Website:
www.epitogo.com
(image courtesy of epicurious.com)
October 18th, 2007
The first edition of our MobileMammoth t-shirts have arrived, as a few smart readers already know.
There are two ways to get your hands on one. (1) Enter our contests early (we usually give one to the first few entrants), or (2), subscribe to our feed via email. Starting today, October 6, every tenth subscriber will receive a free t-shirt until we run out.
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October 6th, 2007
Today we added a BlogRush widget to the sidebar on the right (below Stomping Grounds).
The idea is that readers are able to see related posts from other blogs that also use BlogRush, and the site owners get their content across to more sites.
I’ve heard good things so far, so we’ll have to see how it goes. I am hoping they add more categories soon (”mobile technology” would be great!).
If you have a blog and want to add it to your site, check out their how-to videos on how to add the widget.
Let us know what you think!
September 17th, 2007
Weather is the most popular type of information sought after on the mobile web, and there is one gold standard for where to get it.
Yes, it’s from The Weather Channel, and it’s weather.mobi.
In addition to the basic weather forecast, the mobile website also includes information about the weather’s impact on people’s daily lives. They’ve included airport delays, game-time weather for baseball or football games, and pollen counts by location for allergy sufferers.
Mobile Website:
weather.mobi
September 13th, 2007
Want to win $100 cash? Or at least get a cool t-shirt? Read on.
We at MobileMammoth are all about helping you learn more about mobile websites so you can save time, have fun, and just live smarter. Now we want to hear from you.
Here’s how to enter — submit your favorite, top 5 mobile websites in a comment to this post by 11:59pm Eastern Time (US) on Friday, August 31Sunday, September 9. After the deadline, we will collect all the entries, and will put the lists up for vote by our user community for a few weeks.
The user with the most votes at the end of the voting period wins $100 cash via PayPal. The first 20 entrants will receive a free MobileMammoth.com t-shirts. The top 10 vote-getters will also get a free t-shirt, including the winner.
Other rules:
1. Be creative and original. An entry with the 5 most common mobile websites is probably not going to stand out. (And anyone caught stealing content will be called out.)
2. In your top 5 list, each item must include the URL of the mobile website. (Mobile services provided via text message are fine too). Feel free to include a short blurb on each site for the readers.
3. Each user gets one vote please. You can ask your friends or your blog readers to vote, but only one vote per person please. If any votes are found to be cast by the same person, those votes will not count toward the contest.
4. MobileMammoth.com retains the right to settle, at its sole discretion, any and all disputes related to the management of this contest.
5. Have fun, and we hope you find a few new useful sites out of this contest.
Contest updates will be sent out to our email subscribers (subscribe using the button located in the top right corner of this site).
So what are you waiting for? Go ahead and submit your top 5 mobile websites today. And don’t forget, all entries must be received by 11:59pm ET on Friday, August 31Sunday, September 9.
August 7th, 2007
Don’t you hate it when your non-sports-loving side of the family plans a non-sports event during a big game? If you find yourself in this situation for Sunday’s Super Bowl XLI between the Bears and the Colts, fear not. MobileMammoth is here to help with resources to help you keep track of the big game.
NFL Wireless from NFL.com
The league’s NFL Wireless offerings do provide a few different options fulfilled through their partners. One option is simply to navigate to the www.nfl.com URL from your cell phone browser.
Like many large sites today, nfl.com detects that you are browsing from a mobile device, and displays a mobile-friendly page. There are seven menu options including News, Scores, Stats and Help. Navigating to the Scores link, and then to Super Bowl, it presents you with a clean, simple display of the score, as you can see in the image to the right.
Of course, I don’t want to have to check the score myself every 10 minutes. Bring the score to me. Tell me when something happens. Me, Me, Me. For this, NFL.com has partnered with Sprint to offer the NFL Network channel on Sprint TV. While this package does include alerts, clearly it provides much more than our topic of getting NFL scores on your cell phone. So let’s look at some other options.
Super Bowl 41 Scores from SportsAlert.net
SportsAlert.net offers three different score alert packages, with fees ranging from free to $20 per year. There is no charge for the “Standard” package, which provides final scores to the sports and teams selected upon registration.
The “Custom” package lets the user select specific sports, and teams within those sports, to receive live scoring updates. You can set it up to receive scoring updates upon each score, after each period, or after lead changes, for example. This service also enables you to get scores on-demand by sending specific text messages with the team name your are interested in. In addition to scoring updates from the NFL, you can also select teams from NCAA Basketball, NCAA Football, NBA, NHL, and Major League Baseball.
Finally, SportsAlert.net also provides a “Premium” package. At a rate of $20 per year, you can select a seemingly unlimited number of teams within the sports listed above. If a user initially selects the Custom package and selects 3 or more teams, they will automatically change that to a Premium package so that it is more cost effective for the user. It’s nice to see someone looking out for their users.
Sports Alerts from Yahoo! Alerts
Of course, may of the larger Web portals/search engines/communities also offer mobile alerts. The description of the Yahoo! Alerts service from their page here is as follows:
Yahoo! Alerts enable you to get score updates on your favorite teams sent directly to your cell phone or pager! You choose your teams and when you want the alerts: start of game, every score change, when game ends, etc. Never miss crucial game updates while working or traveling.
So if your niece’s birthday party might possibly hover past kick-off time on Super Bowl Sunday, get yourself on one of these services now.
What mobile alert service do you subscribe to? How instantaneous are the updates?
February 1st, 2007
Skype launched its first mobile voice-over-IP (VOIP) service in conjunction with UK-based network operator 3 Group late last week. The service, which will require a cell phone data plan subscription from 3 Group, will let UK customers make free cell phone voice calls to other 3 Group Skype customers as well as PC-based Skype users around the world. The service will be made available beginning December 1.
This announcement is noteworthy not just for those in the UK, but also for Skype users anywhere in the world. The bottom line is that if you are a current Skype user and make frequent calls to Europe, Australia, or Hong Kong (where 3 Group currently operates), you’ll want to check this out.
If your friends subscribe to 3Group, then you could be in luck. The word “free” almost always comes with an asterisk, and this time it means users must subscribe to one of 3 Group’s cell phone data plans. These plans will include unlimited voice calls, and that is what makes this service very intriguing for those that don’t mind saving money on their phone bills.
This is not Skype’s first venture into wireless (check out SkypeOut). Many mobile phone operators are reluctant to allow Skype clients on their handsets, and 3 Group is one of the first to promote it.
It’s always nice to see new cell phone tools or software that lets us lower our cell phone bills! So stay tuned and we will keep you posted as more become available.
November 20th, 2006
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