WordCamp Whistler – Dale Mugford’s talk on WordPress on the Go

Dale Mugford from BraveNewCode has titled his talk “An Inconvenient Blog – WordPress is Going Mobile – You Should Too“. I look forward to an amazing talk! I was telling Rebecca that the WordCamp is going SO well, and just had a very brief chat with Duane, checking in on the wireless. I may not be able to liveblog, as I’m getting physically tired (I didn’t get any food for breakfast, despite kind offers from Jeremy on the way up).

Developers of the iPhone wanted to create apps that linked directly with the API. Many people hadn’t thought about mobile WordPress. Dale is sharing some statistics on mobile webpages views (since I have a super basic cell phone, I really don’t do it – but I can see how mobile blogging is increasing). Mobile internet users

WordPress Mobile Solutions

Mobile WordPress.com (m.wordpress.com) – Summer ‘06

AlexKing.org – WordPress mobile edition

MobilePress – Great simple cross-platform solution

wPhone - Awesome admin for WordPress for iPhone, iPod Touch. — still mroe versatile than native WP iPhone app, works with other mobile browsers as well.

WordPress PDA & iPhone
- Still in development (beta)
- The plugin enables the WordPress blog vewable for PDA and iPhone browsers

Mobile by Mippin
- Employ re-directs to services which format content for mobile devices
- iWPhone – probably the most advanced solution for iPhone but was missing some key features that people wanted.

Now Dale turns to WPtouch -WordPress for iPhone, iPod Touch and Android. It is activated as a plugin but works like a WP theme. Users can switch between WPTouch and their own theme – it’s lightweight and customizable. Dale is now giving an awesome description (with visuals) of how WPTouch works. I recommend that you install the app and test it, it’s such an amazing one! If only I had an iPhone!

Where is WPTouch going?

- Launching on WordPress.com
- Full localization support.
- More themes, support for user created themes, APIs
- Native Adsense, Google Analytics, Mint, Twitter and More
- Podcasting integratino with native iPhone/iPod tie-ins
- More efficient code, re-written admin engine for MU sites.

After a great overview of WPTouch – Dale is now showing what they hope for the future of the app. It’s really hard for me to visualize all the power of WPTouch because I don’t have a mobile internet-enabled phone, but I can totally see the value, and I am proud to call the developers of WPTouch my friends.

- We can expect more and more traffic coming from mobile devices.
- Greater browser support for more advanced features.
- Less proprietary features, more standards make it easy.
- Mobile audio/video/photo publishing.

UPDATE 11:42 AM - Dale has just completed his talk, and he did a fantastic job!

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