Typepad was front and center when 3rd Party apps were first announced for the iPhone and iPod Touch. 

Mobile blogging truly went mobile and mainstream tonight with the release of the WordPress for iPhone Open Source application. 

The free WordPress for iPhone app is 

robust but simple to use…

It enables the creation and editing of WordPress blogs and allows bloggers to save posts as drafts, mark them for later review or post them directly.

WordPress for iPhone means that iPhone blogging has truly arrived.

Why are we most excited about WordPress for iPhone though????

We were visiting friends at their country house last night and I decided to see how their six year old daughter responded to some of the more "kid-friendly" iPhone apps (translation- I let her think she was playing with my iPhone when, in reality, she was actually helping me write some upcoming app reviews).

Anyhow… she was on her third app (yup, she is an awesome little reviewer).

I had to run inside the house for a minute. When I returned the following exchange was related to me…

Today’s eReader tip is a simple, but useful one…

Say you lost your place in a book but you remember part or all of the last sentence…

Say you read a beautiful paragraph and you want to share it to someone but you just can’t remember where it was. You do, however, remember an unusual word or phrase the author used…

In both cases simply use the built-in search feature to quickly and easily find the word or phrase you seek.

To use…

The more I use eReader on the iPhone and iPod Touch the more I like it.

As I posted yesterday, the folks at eReader/Fictionwise were quite forthcoming about the fact that they chose to get eReader out the door and available on the App Store immediately even though it meant releasing a somewhat limited version NOW. 

A good call.

Well… I started reading James Patterson’s new book Sail and was pleased to discover one piece of functionality they didn’t leave out of the initial release- "word look up".