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WWDC 2008 News: Typepad goes mobile on the iPhone

2008-06-09
typepad is the largest professional blogging service in the world every month more than 100 million people visit a blog that's powered by typepad and photo blogging is one of our most popular features let me show you type ad on the iphone so this is the applications home screen and from here it's incredibly easy for me to post to my blog I can create a simple text posts by tapping create a post and that brings up our post editor or I could choose to blog the moment by taking a photo and sending it directly to my blog this takes advantage of the camera API in the iphone sdk but what i want to do today is actually blog a photo that I took yesterday a group of folks were visiting San Francisco from our Paris office and i took them down to Fisherman's Wharf so I'll tap on add a photo this will let me browse my photo albums and I'll go to the trip to San Francisco album and I'll pick that post that first photo there I can move and scale it to make it fit just right for my blog and I'll tap choose to select it this brings me to my post editor I'll tap to change the blog that I want to post it to my default is michael's blog but i want to put this in travel in california which is where i blog about all my adventures in the Golden State I'll tap to add a title and I will just call this wow I'm going to tap to choose categories to put it in the right place in my blogs archives will pick bahria and food and drink and now finally I'll tap to add some body text and some commentary for the post will just say yum so I tap publish and type ad for iphone instantly starts sending the post and the photo up to my blog and returns me to the applications home screen I'll tap on the pending items view to watch our progress and in the meantime I'd actually go and create a new post if I wanted to but there we just got an alert to let us know that the post has been published will tap on the View button that will launch Safari and take us right to the post that we've just created and it's available for the world to see and that's how easy it is to blog with typepad on the iphone we're really excited about the iphone sdk made it incredibly easy for us to develop this mobile application and we're also excited to announce that the app will be available for free at the launch of the iphone app store which we believe will be the best way for users to get applications on their mobile device thanks very much for having us
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