Blogging has become very popular in the last few years. People use it to break news, write about experiences, and about things that interest them. Also, the iPhone has become very popular. So what would you get if you could somehow bring blogging to the iPhone? Well, you would have yourself one popular application.
Most bloggers have had to write articles on the fly. Whether it be on the road, or at an event they are attending. Either way, sometimes we just have the need to get things done when away from the desk. The iPhone already sports an advanced enough browser to do some serious mobile blogging, but a native application will support advanced functionality that traditionally would only be available from an actual computer. This makes the announcement of a native WordPress and TypePad application that much better.
Six Apart already has an iPhone optimized version of their blogging platform. They plan to increase the functionality of their software for the iPhone in the form of 3rd party software.
“We’re taking it to the next level with our native iPhone application for TypePad that’s already in development.” - Chris Alden, CEO, Six Apart
WordPress also will be making their blogging software available for the iPhone as a native application. It is expected soon. Maybe even as soon as when the iPhone 2.0 firmware officially drops. WordPress was shy about details, but did say there is a device with WordPress built in, and "You can probably guess which one that is."
[Via IntoMobile]
this is a great feature – much needed . .
live blogging would be an amazing feat to do on an iphone . .
picture uploading too.
i can imagine apple making an iweb extension iphone app
giving the ability to upload blog posts and pictures . .
albeit not live. .
thats where i expect 3rd party to excel as the professional iphone blogger apps.
I think it will be useful for quick edits and/or blog posts and comment approvals. But as far as writing full length posts – it will be difficult considering most of our articles involve posting images, links etc…copy and paste is not available on the iPhone (yet) makes it difficult to easily type in URLs to source of the articles.
If you have a .MAC account apple already has a really neat Web Gallery feature for photos. No blogging tools yet though… I’d love to see something like this expanded! =)
I have trial account for .Mac but never use it bc we have our own internal system that we use with WordPress.
I’d love to see a MarsEdit mobile edition for posting to these and more (Drupal and Blogger in particular)
There is a blogging application for the iphone that supports Blogger, Blog City, WordPress, Movable Type and Twitter. Its called BlogSME – http://www.thesmespace.com/smeutils/BlogSME