Just a reminder to anyone who is planning on attending WordCamp 2008 – the registration is up and open. The fee this year is $20 and includes a WordCamp t-shirt.
There are over 140 people signed up already and that is likely to climb fast, be sure to get your name on the list!
Also, although it isn’t completely confirmed yet, I will be giving a short presentation on the BuddyPress project.
Update: The WordPress iPhone app is out now! Head to iTunes and download it now.
From WordPress for iPhone blog:
Just a quick update that we’ve successfully uploaded the app to the iTunes Store, and the status message “In Review” indicates that the Apple team is conducting their testing procedures. We have not been provided with an ETA — so it could get approved at any time.
The WordPress iPhone app is awesome and I’m sure it’s going to make a lot of people happy. It’s been through a number of rounds of tests so a lot of the prelaunch bugs have been ironed out. Best of all, it is open source, so it may help other budding developers discover how iPhone apps function under the hood.
When will it be launched ?
Good post.
Excellent essay and site. I put a link to your compassion essay on my website. Good work.
Good. Thank you.
Another great reason to love the iPhone hey!
wow i use wp to make all of my website, now iphone ready for wp… great.
This is a little test from a soon to be released mega-awesome new iPhone app…
Any word on public release date? I’m eagerly awaiting.
@Matt: I think the word is ASAP. It is working well, but there are still a number of issues related to photo support.
Considering how buggy most of the apps are in the app store – I think it will be worth the wait.
Yes, patience I have (not only because I need to upgrade, jailbreak and unlock my original iPhone first) and am most excited about this app hitting the AppStore. Thanks to the mighty WP code ninjas for their work!
why the hell do most apps upload pictures sideways? twitterrific does that crap to me as well…
might have to pop on over to Rogers today…
Great. Can’t wait for the release 
I’m hoping that the app allows multiple blog accounts.
From the WordPress Blog:
I’m happy to announce that version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner”, named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web, plus there are dozens of incremental improvements to the features introduced in version 2.5.
This is a really solid release and I’m pretty excited about the new change tracking. We could well see WordPress start to become a viable option as an enterprise CMS solution.
new update is oarsome!
FOURSOME (FOUR awesomes in fact)
Awesome ! I am happy to find out what well prepared you are . I am beginner maby I’ll need yor help .
Thank you , for evrething !
Carmen Doreal
Outside my local Rogers plus store in Vancouver, BC (10th July @ 8pm)
That’s insane. Lining up at 8 pm on Thursday for an 8 am purchase. Geez. I am geeky, I am just not THAT geeky. I am not that crazy about buying an iPhone to do that.
If they were selling tickets to Madonna’s concert, THEN we’re talking 
One thing I might do is show up early for the supposedly free breakfast 
and to just hang out with my friends.
From Canada.com
Rogers Communications Inc. has rolled back the pricing of its promotional six-gigabyte data plan for iPhone 3G, following criticism that the costs were too high for the eagerly anticipated Apple device.
Rogers said on Wednesday the price of the six-gigabyte service plan will be reduced to $30. Earlier, it said iPhone plans for voice and data would range from $60 to $115.
The plan will be available to customers who purchase the plan before Aug. 31 on a three-year contract.
That’s a slight nudge in the right direction, but with the usual Rogers caveats.
To get the offer you have to sign up before August 31, and also sign a new 3 year contract. I don’t understand this 3 year bit, is that still true if you don’t want a new phone and simply want to add it to an existing contract? If it does then that is BS in my opinion.
Carriers tie you into contracts to recoup the cost of a discounted handset, if you don’t get one, then why the tie in?
I’m on Rogers without any contract. My first question to them will be “Can I add that data plan?”
@Long I’m similarly on Fido with a month to month contract. I’ve already called about the new data plan, but they had no idea what I was talking about.
Looks like we will have to wait until the 11th to find out.
Andy I am finally able to say I’m getting an iphone
I hear what you’re saying on the contracts though
From The Vancouver Sun:
The petition has attracted attention in Canada and abroad, but it won’t have any effect on Rogers unless consumers follow through with the old-fashioned but simple and reliable strategy for pulling down prices.
If you don’t like the price of an iPhone, don’t buy it. If Rogers finds it has priced itself out of the market, it won’t take a petition to ring in lower prices.
Great bit of advice, if you really want serious change in Canada then nothing speaks greater than a good-ol’ stay-at-home.
But I need 1!!!! Dont deny me of it!
I don’t believe boycotting will work, especially in this monopolistic environment. Public opinion puts a lot of pressure on the government and any company associated with Rogers. Any company that values it’s public image will distance itself from Rogers, which is what Apple seems to have done today:
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=93ac7102-19fb-499d-8712-7493cf93c219
@Brad: I’m sure if no one bought an iPhone in the next two weeks, Rogers would go into panic mode and be forced to modify their plans. Demand controls everything in any retail industry.
It also seems that Apple are not selling iPhones at any Apple stores outside the US:: http://www.iphoneatlas.com/2008/07/08/applerogers-spat-overblown-never-any-plans-to-sell-iphone-3g-at-apple-retail/
Darn!
I agree with you, Andy.
Simple, basic economic geography: Rogers is forgetting that while technology usually is a supply-driven commodity chain, in this case an iPhone is a demand-driven commodity. You don’t NEED an iPhone. You may WANT an iPhone, but it’s not necessary.
There are substitutes for iPhones, at all levels. When there is threat of substitution, firms should change their corporate strategy to a cost-differentiation tactic that may help them differentiate themselves from their competitors.
@Brad – That’s precisely why it SHOULD work. Because this is a monopolistic environment. In a monopoly, a firm has pretty much the control of a product, true. But monopolies are highly regulated, and the Canadian government will NOT see Rogers with good eyes if there is a PR nightmare due to their stupid pricing strategies.
And now I’ve left a massive comment on your blog. Sorry Andy I should’ve just blogged it and trackback. Ooops.
Regardless if Rogers and Telus have monopolies on our communications in Canada, it still falls on Apple who picks one (1) company from each country for a monopoly on the iPhone anyways. I doubt Apple is happy that Rogers wants to charge through the roof for the phone, but don’t fool yourself into thinking they didn’t know the rates before they signed the deal.
I adopt technology fast and waste money on occasion for things I want. This time, I am refusing to buy as it isn’t a good deal. You can use US phones on CAN networks cheaper than CAN phones right now. See a pattern here? Overcharging maybe? I say let them realize this and don’t buy. Good discussion article Andy.
But remember that gas email that circulates every year? Saying that if nobody buys gas on one day that it will drive gas prices down…
http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/nogas.asp
@Jeff: Touche! But is gas a “need” or a “want”?
@Jeff and @Andy
iPhone is a WANT. Gas is a NEED. Like it or not, gas IS necessary (to transport goods and people, at the very least!)
If you want to force a company that is behaving as a monopoly to change its behavior you can (a) regulate it (not our place, since we’re not in government) or (b) use market mechanisms to bring the company out of the market (which we can do).
More on my post on iPhone and public policy issues (coming tomorrow) as I already feel guilty as is for commenting twice on Andy’s blog. But the public policy aspect of it (government industry relations) is fascinating.
@ Andy – Last one, I promise!
I think in this case people are petitioning *and* not buying it. I know I have no plans to ever get one, and I find the charges just unreasonable.
I had a regular ol’ phone, nothing fancy, and went through rogers. Almost $40/month, on the lowest plan they had. Seriously, that’s insane.
Argh, and I should have added that out east, there’s a bit more of a monopoly. If I “want” a cell phone (I do have teenagers, so there’s an arguable need if they go a lot of places, and we want to keep in touch), I get to pick from a grand total of TWO carriers – Rogers or Aliant (which is owned by Bell).
Wow I could not agree more with this recent per text message I am not sure I really want a Cell phone anymore. . .
Fellow Vancouver blogger and friend Lisa Bettany (aka Mostly Lisa & Red Pilot Media) hosted the latest Macbreak video podcast released today. She appeared with iJustine and talked about the new Flip video offering.
She did a really awesome job, you can watch the show directly or subscribe via iTunes. Check it out!
aww thanks for that. i don’t think i could watch myself in HD though. gah! maybe quickly, in between episodes of Peep Show.
I second that she did a really awesome job,
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