As you may have noticed there are lot of com­pa­nies launch­ing ded­i­cated iPhone appli­ca­tions for their busi­nesses. Audi, FCB­mo­bile, Coca­Cola, just to name afew.

Wouldn’t it be a great idea to build an iPhone appli­ca­tion being able to deliver the con­tent of your blog or twit­ter account? Sure it may be.

Well, in order to do that you need to be able to deal with a lit­tle bit of Cocoa and build it by your­self or hire some free­lance to do the dirty job for you. In both cases you need time, in the firs case, and you need money, if you choose the sec­ond option.

Ok, now you can get your won appli­ca­tion for free thanks to the ser­vices offered by Mother­App.

What do you need to get the job done?

Very few things:

  • your blog RSS URL.
  • your twit­ter screen name.
  • a descrip­tion of your blog.
  • a cou­ple of pic­tures that will be used on the iPhone and on the AppStore.

That’s it!

Mother­App will take care of sub­mit­ting your appli­ca­tion to the App­Store and get it approved by Apple on your behalf.

The most inter­est­ing thing is that you can choose to dis­play adver­tis­ing on your mobile appli­ca­tion. In that case the process of appli­ca­tion cre­ation, sub­mis­sion and pub­lish­ing is com­pletely free of charge and you will rev­enue share 50%/50% the rev­enues com­ing out of adver­tis­ing from your appli­ca­tion. When you will reach the 200 USD tar­get you will get paid.

On the other side you may choose to pay 99 USD per year to have your appli­ca­tion ad free.

From a tech­ni­cal stand­point there is not a great magic behind this. Actu­ally it is quite sim­ple to auto­mate most of the process but it is def­i­nitely a great idea.

The com­pany we site stated that they are going to release the same ser­vice on Android, Win­dows Mobile, Black­Berry and Sym­bian dur­ing 2010.

[EDIT Fri­day 22, 2010]

I have noticed that there is also another ser­vice offer­ing pretty much the same ser­vice. From a very quick it seems that you can get a lit­tle bit more cus­tomiza­tion on your appli­ca­tion. The com­pany is called iSites and you may want to check it out.

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  3. Twit­ter and the mobil­ity dilemma
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  5. iPhone, My Impres­sions After One Week

Turn Your Blog And Twitter Into An iPhone Application

4 Comments

  • 1 Lars Tong Strömberg wrote:

    App­makr is another iPhone app ser­vice you might want to check out?

    http://​www​.app​makr​.com

    January 23, 2010 at 4:47 pm Permalink

  • 2 Alessandro Galetto wrote:

    Thank you Lars.

    I just noticed that there so many of those out there.

    In the past few hours I was just won­der­ing how dif­fi­cult that would be to auto­mate and I have to say that with a few script­ing on the Xcode side it is quite sim­ple to get the whole process fully automated.

    I have not extended the proof of con­cept up to the sub­mis­sion to Apple for approval but I think it should be easy as well (some very basic web nav­i­ga­tion automation).

    Any­way, thank you for stop­ping by.

    January 23, 2010 at 5:07 pm Permalink

  • 3 Mike Skjorter wrote:

    Well I dont under­stand if its a gen­uine iPhone idea or it comes in rivalry of the nexus one, in any case its really a mat­ter of plea­sure for the customers.

    January 26, 2010 at 8:49 pm Permalink

  • 4 Blog Literature wrote:

    I am win­dows mobile user and wait­ing for the time when they launch these ser­vices for win­dows mobiles. Any­one have any idea about its launch­ing date? If any­one knows then please share with us.

    June 8, 2010 at 7:57 pm Permalink

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