eBay, TypePad, others showcase iPhone apps at WWDC

Now that developers have had a fair crack at the iPhone SDK for a few months, plenty of companies were ready today to showcase their wares alongside Stevie. Among them:

• eBay. Pretty much everything you'd need to do from a desktop browser can be done through eBay's iPhone app: bidding, searching for items, My eBay (so you can see how the sale of your old iPhone's going), watching items, and the like. It's free, but since you're giving eBay money every time you make a transaction, we'd expect it to be.
  
• Loopt. Already a staple on a couple carriers, Loopt's location-based services allow friends to keep tabs on one another. It'll be free at the launch of the App Store.
• TypePad. Following some of Six Apart's other moblogging efforts, the iPhone version of its TypePad client will allow realtime uploading of photos taken with the iPhone's cam. It'll also be free.
• Associated Press. It seems the AP wants to turn us all into unpaid correspondents, offering an app that will allow users to upload footage.
• Band. A collection of virtual instruments for creating music from scratch right on the iPhone. Probably not the most effective platform for creating songs if we had to guess, but hey, cool nonetheless! Available in a "few weeks' time."
  
• MLB.com. Video baseball highlights, real-times stats and scores.

[TimeyWimeyStuff @ Jun 9th 2008 2:03PM]

Is anyone else bored?

Get on with the good news Steve!!

[shimmy shimmy yah @ Jun 9th 2008 10:57PM]

*Associated Press. It seems the AP wants to turn us all into unpaid correspondents, offering an app that will allow users to upload footage""

But i didnt think the iphone had video recording?!!!!!!

test

[Windzilla @ Jun 9th 2008 2:11PM]

don't forget those medical apps,

endgadget seems to think that healthcare isn't a sizable industry in the US, or that those employed in that field don't consume technology.


alittle more love for the Nurses Docs and Researchers PAs etc who buy this stuff up like hotcakes.
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[Brendon @ Jun 9th 2008 3:05PM]

Just want to point out that Band is available on Installer for jailbroken iPhones and has been for some time now.

[Galley @ Jun 9th 2008 3:11PM]

I'm really looking forward to he MLB.com app, even though there are a couple ofgreat web apps that do nearly the same thing.

[Adnan Osmani @ Jun 9th 2008 3:47PM]

I would love to have that eBay app. Heck, it would be great as a desktop widget, let alone on the iPhone.

It's a pity that it took all this time and Apple to bring really innovative applications to mobile devices whilst we WinMo users had to make due with laggy freeware or homebrew versions of what we were after all these years.

*sigh*

Alms for the guy without an iPhone? ; )

http://www.blarnee.com

[john @ Jun 9th 2008 4:10PM]

Its pretty cool that there are some good iPhone apps that will be coming out soon, but apps are going to be getting better fast with new SDK features like the push notification and GPS. Here's a look at what the great iPhone apps will be: http://www.zintin.com/blog/2008/06/great-iphone-applications/

[Liam @ Jun 9th 2008 5:38PM]

I'd like a cut down ebay app, then it won't have the on-screen space to tell me "bid more, then you're more likely to win!", with some kind of idiot-logic that is stupid yet at the same time entirely infallible.

[uhit235 @ Jun 9th 2008 5:52PM]

This isn't that impressive... Apple just wanted a big company name to premier the Apps

[svalleygirl @ Jun 9th 2008 8:34PM]

About time we had some solid moblogging - and from an established and large blogging service like Typepad (which I blog from :).

IMHO it's about time that we had an easier time posting from anywhere.....good thing it's now on the best mobile browsing device, too!

[DjDizzyCatDeluXtreme @ Jun 9th 2008 10:56PM]

*Associated Press. It seems the AP wants to turn us all into unpaid correspondents, offering an app that will allow users to upload footage""

But i didnt think the iphone had video recording?!!!!!!