You Can Take it With You – WordPress App for the iPhone

I can’t wait for the next version of the WordPress iPhone application, which will include:

• comment moderation – including batch edit
• page editing – creation of new pages as well as changes to existing pages
• Landscape mode – the wider keyboard is much easier for fat-thumbed typists like me
• Easier link creation – separate entry of link and title so you don’t have to do the whole <a href="url" > title </a> nonsense while writing

The app already does basic post creation with photos (from library or upload from phone), local draft mode, and scheduled publish.

Here’s a video preview of 1.2:

Best of all, the app itself is open source – and they’re looking for help testing. So go get the SDK, which lets you run the simulator, and check it out.

Type Pad (dis)Connect – All UR comments are belong to US

In some ways it is exciting to see the launch of Type Pad Connect but in others it seems a Faustian bargain.

You get some spiffy features, including the ability of other bloggers to leave comments (which appear to be) on your site using OpenID, with threading, and with avatars; but in the process you put all your comments (and your relationship with your blog readers) in someone else’s hands.

It also seems like the real benefits of using TypePad Connect come from network effects – once everyone has a TypePad Profile and every blog uses it for comments, the benefits will be great. But what about when only some of your users have TypePad profiles, or want TypePad profiles? What about letting people comment with identities they already have rather than creating yet another profile / lifestream?

Ok, so maybe the title’s a bit strongly worded, and if you’re already using a hosted blog, or using TypePad for blogging, maybe it doesn’t where your comments actually live. But I don’t think it will work for me.

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