According to Bango, a Mobile Analytics provider, Mobile Web Browsing is now the highest in the United States, than any place else in the world, probably due to the iPhone – here’s a video announcement from Bango, and then I’ll comment on it.

Bango claims the US accounted for 29% of web worldwide traffic and  57% of payments worldwide in February 09.

I was thinking of a way to verify  Bango’s claim about Mobile Traffic in the US.   Fortunately, StatCounter Launched a  Global Stats Tool: Tracks OS, Browser, and Search Engine Market Share as announced last month in Read/WriteWeb and while the amount of mobile traffic is not given, the percentage of it, is:

The chart above shows, at the current time, iPhone traffic is 40% of all mobile traffic with iTouch traffic hovering between 25% and 30% – that makes Apple’s share of mobile traffic between 65% and 70% of all mobile internet activity in the United States – impressive.

Now, there probably isn’t anything that I can use outside of Bango, that will verify exactly what they’re saying, and this comes as close as I can reasonably get.

Was thinking of a New York Times article on Music Games for iPhone Give Artists New Spotlight- where a company called Tapulous, the develops applications for the iPhone including Tap Tap Revenge (which I’ve downloaded last August) is not only the most popular free iPhone application (3 million+ downloads) but which also sells music phenomenally well.

“… To keep its game fresh the company created Tap Tap Thursdays, when it releases new music from artists like Michael Franti and the pop singer Katy Perry. Mr. Decrem said those songs regularly inspire a million game plays — and occasionally a lot of music sales, because players can click to buy the song through Apple. In October, Tap Tap Revenge players bought 50,000 copies of the featured track “Hot N Cold” by Ms. Perry.

The popularity of the game led Tapulous to begin introducing paid versions for $4.99 each, aimed at fans of specific artists or genres of music. In late October it released a Nine Inch Nails edition, followed by a holiday version called Christmas With Weezer, for which that band recorded some carols. Tapulous plans to release one of these each month, including a special edition featuring the Dave Matthews Band.

But that got me to think about something only tangentially related – my own paintings, where I’ve found myself changing colors, based on what I’m seeing and feeling intuitively, faster than I can keep up.   However, using the iPhone (Colors application) I’ve found that I can not only indulge my feeling for intuitive color – but I have more, and more, carried it over to my paintings on paper, canvass, etc (see below).

Here’s a large painting I did today – you can read more about it here.

SireN of Jealousy – Marshall Sponder 2008 – Oil Pastel on Paper 48″ x 56″

But I first stared with an iPhone image I created last night (see below):

iPhone painting – various interpertations.

I guess, my point being that the iPhone has reinvented and reinvigorated some things such as representational art (see Collectingsmiles.com as one example).

It might very well be we ought to look at the future of music sales a faciliation using the iPhone as a platform to engage the user (see Spotted: Weezer Playing Tap Tap Revenge!) – ha … Tap Tap Revenge is engaging enough to get the musicians who are on the label to want to play the game.

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When I met Matt Mullenweg recently at WordCamp NYC (WordPress WordCamp NYC part 1) I told him that WordPress blogging had helped sell me on the idea of switching over from TMobile to ATT because I now have the capacity to do a decent post, using my mobile device.

However, the first version of WordPress for the iPhone is somewhat limited in what it does – there’s no formatting controls and you can only place photos at the bottom of a post – plus you can’t put any hyperlinks in because the iPhone OS does not have that capability currently.

But I told Matt Mullenwag (who was on his way to a business meeting that concluded with the purchase of Polldaddy by Automatic, Matt’s company) that WordPress ought to make improving the iPhone application a priority, and he was receptive and suggested one might be upcoming soon.

However, I wish I told him to do one more thing – and I’m using this post to test it out – currently the WordPress appication on the iPhone does not capture blog posts that are in draft mode – it will, however, capture those that are published.

In lieu of having that functionality – and preparing for Emetrics DC, I decided to prepare many of my posts for sessions I plan to attend beforehand, putting in the marketing notes, tags, hyperlinks, all from my laptop, then publishing my post for one minute, getting the data to sync on the WordPress application, then unpublishing my post before Google Reader or Google Alerts can pick it up. Most of the time I was successful but one – darn – my unfinished post was picked up by Google because I must have published it at an interval when Google was crawling my site.

So the first part worked – I could get my post, done on my laptop, transferred over to my iPhone WordPress application – but …… I had not tested the post to see, if, on the iPhone, I could update the post, and then publish it from the iPhone.

So that’s what I’m going to try to do now – and I’ll write a line or two below this one – this will be proof of concept that my “workaround” for WordPress and the iPhone actually did work.

Ok, I am writing this text from my 3G IPhone and here’s the steps I took.

1. Write the parts of a post ahead of time on laptop or desktop, then publish it.

2. Immediately go to IPhone WordPress app, sync posts with blog, the blog post should appear in the local draft listings of posts ( however the post has a status of “published” at this point.

3. Unpublish the post from the laptop or desktop.

4. Edit post from IPhone ( this step is what I did just now, here).

5. Finish blip post on IPhone then publish it.

Worked!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No problemo. I just finished the post back on my laptop, because I wanted to indent – everything worked perfectly.

So …. we now have a way to prepare a post, for say .. a conference session, beforehand, with a bunch of links and formatting – send it over to the iPhone – take your notes and finish the post without dragging around a laptop!!!

Thanks Matt Mullenweg for creating this application for the iPhone – and Matt, feel free to improve it, when you get around to it, so I don’t have to publish and unpublish my posts to get them over to the iPhone.

And this last line, I’m writing, again, from my iPhone.

WordPress Rocks -Especially on my 3G IPhone!