We at MobileMammoth hope all our U.S. readers had a safe and happy Thanksgiving this year.
We have quite a bit to be thankful for, as we are gearing up for more content and mobile-related tools in 2012.
Enjoy the rest of your holiday weekend, and stay tuned to us for Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals!

Be prepared for Hurricane Irene by getting text message alerts from The Weather Channel.

From the Outer Banks of North Carolina all the way up to New York City and the coastal New England cities, Hurricane Irene is set to cause serious damage to the entire East Coast. The Weather Channel offers multiple ways to stay updated on the latest hurricane developments from your mobile phone.

Remember, with possible power outages and landline issues, your cell phone might be the only communications device available during or after Hurricane Irene. See what options below might work best for you to stay informed.

Mobile Website:

The Weather Channel website will auto-detect for mobile browsers and will render the mobile version of its website.

Severe Weather Alerts by Text:

Choose from a number of alert options, including severe weather alerts, that apply to the zip code you enter. Access it here.

Notify!

Subscribers to The Weather Channel Notify! service will receive alerts by phone when severe weather warnings are issued in their area. Note this is a PAID service.

Weather Channel Android App:

www.weather.com/services/android.html

Weather Channel iPhone App:

www.weather.com/services/iphone.html

Weather Channel iPad App:

www.weather.com/services/ipad.html

What — Too many trendy buzz words in the title?

OK we agree. But that is the tag line for Jotmider, a free online wiki for individuals or groups that is available on the desktop and mobile web.

Aside from Wikipedia, Wikis do not get enough credit for what they can provide. They are used successfully in many companies and other organizations, and I can see how Jotminder can be quite useful as well.

The service itself provides useful functionality, and we would suggest the good folks at Jotminder get a professional UI developer — not a pure techie type, but one with a flair for design who has read Steve Krug of Don’t Make Me Think fame. (Note to readers: if you are in any way involved in UI design or development, you must read that book. You can thank us later.)

Absent a better UI, more advanced note-taking apps like Evernote will remain a better option. We’ll continue to watch Jotminder, including their mobile website version, and hope to report some exciting updates soon!

And hey, at least they didn’t call it the open source mobile cloud-based Wiki notepad social networking location-based 3D game for Millennials. Now that would be a reach.

The 2011 British Open, which as many of you know is one of the four major golf tournaments on the PGA Tour, begins next week at Royal St. George’s in Sandwich, England.

Of course, we here at MobileMammoth are here to help you prepare so you don’t find yourself fumbling around for leaderboard updates while you’re stuck in a meeting, or, worse yet, shopping of some sort.

Here are a few tried and true mobile websites that will provide the latest British Open Scoring updates as they happen (HINT: Do not try to access these sites from the actual event, as cell phones are offically banned at the British):

Official British Open Mobile Website:

mobile.opengolf.com

Golf.com Mobile Website:

m.golf.com

PGA.com Mobile Website:

mobile.pga.com

The new Google+ social network includes a group texting service called Huddle.

One of several features of Google+, Huddle allows users to start texting with groups within their Google+ network.

I have always seen group texting as a feature as opposed to a product, and this Huddle group texting feature could be a serious threat to services like GroupMe. Do you agree?

Netflix just announced availability of its Android App, allowing many Android users the ability to view streaming video on a handful of Android devices. The app itself is free, and users must be subscribers to the Netflix video service.

Netflix already offers mobile apps for the iPhone, iPad and Windows Phone 7 platforms.

The Netflix Android app is only available on the following Android handsets:

• HTC Incredible with Android 2.2
• HTC Nexus One with Android 2.2, 2.3
• HTC Evo 4G with Android 2.2
• HTC G2 with Android 2.2
• Samsung Nexus S with Android 2.3.

Let’s hope they are able to expand this list soon!

Android App:

Netflix for Android (links to Android Marketplace)

Unsocial is a new mobile app that uses location-based services to connect users with like-minded business people in the same proximity. While anyone can download the app, it is currently functioning in San Francisco and New York City, with other cities launching soon.

Welcome to Unsocial from Kiran Modak on Vimeo.

Targeted towards business travelers and conference attendees, Unsocial is a unique application that has successfully combined the capabilities of location based services and social media to address a real need for mobile phone users.

Unsocial Mobile App

Download:
Android
iPhone
Blackberry

Follow:
Twitter
Facebook
LinkedIn

ESPN announced that it will now offer its programming to subscribers of pay-TV services from Time Warner, Verizon, and Bright House Networks. Anyone that subscribes to those services can now download an app from iTunes for their iPad, iPhone, or iPod device for access to ESPN programming commercial free.

Content available through the app named WatchESPN, includes video from ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, and ESPN3.com.

This is very nice new feature for pay-TV customers of the companies listed above, and is one that I would definitely get excited about.

WatchESPN App:

The Tiny Wings iPhone app, while no relation to Angry Birds, is just as addictive and is getting rave reviews from just about everyone who’s played it.

Tiny Wings for iPhone was released just last month, and can be had for just 99 cents on the iTunes App Store.

It’s only a buck — Go check it out!

iPhone App:

Opera Software just launched the Opera Mobile Store, a platform-neutral mobile app store with well over 100,000 apps already available for download.

The latest app store to enter the fray, the Opera Mobile Store is one of the few that supports multiple mobile platforms, including Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, and Java based handsets. Note that since it supports ‘open’ platforms, iOS based devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) are not supported. And no you do not have to be using the Opera mobile browser to access or use the Opera Mobile Store.

If you’re a mobile developer, go check out their Opera Publisher Portal to see how to get your app listed.

Mobile Website:

mobilestore.opera.com