Did you know that WordPress has an app for your iPhone or iPod Touch? I’ve had it on my iPod Touch for a while now, but haven’t tried it until now. As long winded as I can be I don’t see myself wanting to type a novel out on a touch keyboard. It just isn’t as fast as my normal 75+ WPM on a normal keyboard.
While not a fully functional app in terms of all that WordPress has to offer, it does allow you to view, add, and edit posts along with viewing pages and adding text or a photo to them. You can also manage the comments your blog has received.
Note that you have to enable XML-RPC under Settings > Writing under your dashboard in order to use it.
Read more here: A Private, Anti-Foursquare To Geo-Fence Those Neer To You
If you are going to launch a new location app, creating an anti-Foursquare is probably not a bad idea. About a week ago, a Qualcomm-incubated project called Neer quietly launched on the Android market, and has been downloaded more than 10,000 times since then. Neer is a free, location-sharing app designed for private sharing between family members and people with close, real-world relationships. An iPhone app and Web interface are also in the works.
Neer, to me, sounds like something you would want your kids to use so you could track them. Provided they can’t manipulate the locations that notifications are given about that is… Or maybe a busy business traveler could check in so their spouse knows they arrived at a destination, but a quick phone call would be better, or just a text message if nothing else. I suppose businesses could use it to track employees somehow, but that seems a bit big brotherish to me.
What do you think? Are you a Foursquare user or do you hate Foursquare? I know some people who unfollow Twitter users once they start pushing their Foursquare locations to Twitter. If you’re one of them, what do you think of this one? This doesn’t seem like a service I would be interested in myself.
Now You Can Follow Twitter Users Without an Account
Twitter has introduced a new feature called “Fast Follow” that makes it easy to follow anyone via SMS, even if you don’t have a Twitter account (if you’re located in the U.S. at least).
To use it, all you need to do is text “follow [username]” to Twitter’s shortcode of 40404. From there, you’ll start receiving all of that user’s updates via text message.
Twitter seems to envision Fast Follow being used largely in advertising. The company encourages people to, “Try it out the next time you see a Twitter @username at a restaurant or store, on a billboard or on TV, or if you hear one mentioned on the radio.”
While a fairly simple feature, it’s an interesting twist that could ultimately bring Twitter to the tens of millions of passive users who occasionally consume tweets from their favorite people or brands but don’t care to tweet themselves. Essentially, the service can simply act as a text message-based newsletter of sorts.
Twitter’s blog has some more details on the feature and a few other text message features being made available with the service.
I’m not sure what to think of this one. I guess it would be OK for those with unlimited texting plans, which I do have, but I still don’t like the idea of getting sales tweets (as they imply in the article) on my phone as I’m annoyed even by the free texts Sprint sends as sales pitches. Not to mention if you tweet a lot like I do, someone’s phone might explode. 
What do you think? Would you use it?
Mashable recently published an article on 5 Terrific Twitter Mapping Tools which gives you various ways to see your tweeps (Twitter friends) and trends based on geo-location. I tried out MMMeeja’s Twitter Google Map to see where my Tweeps are.
Here is my map (note it takes a minute to load):
Map your Twitter friends
Also, I did a Google search for tools for mapping your followers and came up with foller.me. It’s only showing 50 out of 386 followers though, which disappoints me. I’m waiting to see what TweetMap comes up with.
Here’s an interesting set of charts from Nielsen analyzing the most popular apps on each smartphone platform.
As you can see, app usage is pretty uniform across the board. Smartphone users love Facebook, Maps, Pandora and the Weather Channel.
There’s only one really glaring exception across the platforms. Apple’s iPod and iTunes are huge on the iPhone. On BlackBerry and Android, music players aren’t very hot.
This explains Google’s purchase of Simplify Media to build a better music player and music experience for Android.
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