I really liked reading this post by Jason Calacanis (Twitter @Jason). A number of people I know have quit Facebook recently over privacy concerns and I’m probably next in line. One thing that FB still has going for it though is it sucks you in like World of Warcraft. When all your friends are playing, it’s hard to quit, even if you don’t like the game much anymore. Your there because you feel obligated or you think you be out of the circle if you leave. Companies with blatant disregard for their users information are going to loose the game.
Decided to give the app a go. It’s very easy to use. Just feed it the URL, Username, and Password of your blog and it’s ready. It can also support multiple WordPress blogs which is nice if you manage more than one. Clicking on the blog name will give you three tabs. One for comments, another for posts, and one for pages. Clicking on a comment will take you to a sub-screen that will let you mark the comment as spam or approve it. The posts will allow you to view all your current posts as well as make new ones. The posting mechanism is pretty simple. If your using an advanced theme none of your custom title’s or metadata will be accessible, but it does allow you to add a picture, a tag, and a category. You can either upload the post as a draft or straight to published.
Typing a long post on your phone is probably not the best choice. I would use it for quick ideas or drafts notes, but I can’t imagine doing something large on it. Still it’s a nice concept. I can see it’s usefulness for comment control and uploading a picture from the phone. For those functions I’ll probably keep it around.