Well today the Wordpress application for the iPhone and iPod Touch was finally released and I’m currently writing this from my phone to test it out. The whole thing seems to work pretty well so far although of course you get to use the standard iPhone interface to write so that means no formatting or anything like this.

That being said, I think it’s great to see an app like this free one for the iPhone. There’s also a free one for Typepad that’s out there but since I haven’t used Typepad in a few years, I haven’t checked it out yet.

Of course, there’s also the free Facebook application that now allows you to write on your friends’ wall. If you got that one right after launch make sure you grab the update since the first version didn’t allow you to write on walls.

Here’s a picture if for no other reason than to see if it works.

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Allow me to go off-topic for a bit.

So that’s what we get for Bill’s last CES Keynote. No product announcement, a few demos or technologies we already know about and a funny video about his last day in the office. I mean, come on Microsoft. Where’s that XBox 360 Ultimate SKU everyone was talking about. How about at least a comment on the ongoing HD format war. What about a shiny new product that I can get interested in ?

Bill is an insanely intelligent guy, very successful, but he’s no Steve Jobs when giving presentations. On the positive side, that presentation gave me the opportunity to test Microsoft’s Silverlight on Mac and it works great. It’s good to know that Microsoft’s ‘Flash Killer‘ at least works well on the platform.

Hey, we got the Zune in Canada. Yawn…. Now Steve, could we please get a canadian iPhone? I’ve been a good boy all year and bought all your products and I swear I’ll continue to do so. Please?

I guess when you write a blog, you write for yourself first and foremost since it’s a nice and easy format to remember “stuff” you run across in your life at the computer. And, you also write hoping that others will find that information useful (they have to have a Mac, it’s a lifestyle too). So, I started modestly promoting this blog by replicating it in a sort of executive summary on Tumblr and posting a link on my Facebook account and spreading it on Technorati.

There is so much more to do to do it properly. I will have to list the url in the major search engines so “bot” and “spiders” eventually tickle its content. I will have to refer to it in web properties I control, or enter in a referral partnership with others.  And finally, I will use the url as an add-on in my forum signatures or in emails I sent. I have to be careful though because I want pertinent visitors interested in the content. Wouldn’t want a gamer to get here as gaming on the Mac is so bad.

I guess these steps are also important to document, so I’ll keep you posted on what I do in this sort of “out of line” category for the blog on working on a Mac.

EDIT: I completely forgot about Jaiku from Finland. A nice and simple way of keeping in touch. Your messages *have* to be short. I just posted about the blog there and if more people join I will have more Jaiku contacts and I will write more Jaikus… My name is Macouno there. And I guess the competing service is Twitter and MSN Messenger and iChat and…