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The iPhone web apps on my home screen

There are a number of iPhone web apps (most also work fine on the iPod touch) and there are more popping up everyday. Around the Christmas holiday season, there have been reports that Google’s mobile traffic had a huge spike due to new iPhone and iPod touches being given as gifts, and - this traffic surpassed all other mobile devices.

Now with the iPhone’s latest software update, 1.1.3 which enables iPhone owners to customize their own home screens by sprinkling their favorite applications and web applications on them, I think we’re going to see a dramatic increate in mobile web traffic. Side note: To see the latest features available in this software update, you can watch Apple’s guided tour.

So now that I’ve updated my iPhone, what web apps have made the cut? Which ones are on my home screen? Here’s the list so far, and I’m hoping it will grow.

• M.gnolia.com is a mobile version of Ma.gnolia. This application isn’t built only for the iPhone, but I think it works the best on one. I use Ma.gnolia on a daily basis, so I love finally being able to use it on-the-go. More on the Ma.gnolia blog.
• Hahlo is my mobile-Twitter client of choice. I use Twitter a lot (probably too much) and this is the best web app I’ve found so far.
• Google has recently release a new revamped mobile site for iPhone and so I use this for searching, and Google Reader.
• Flickr mobile isn’t really built for the iPhone, but their main site is far too heavy to load on AT&T’s EDGE service. So a compromise must be met. I suspect at some point Flickr will release an iPhone version of their mobile site (or maybe they are waiting for someone else to build it for them).

Even though there are a lot of really great web applications available for the iPhone, these are the ones that I’ve found to be the most useful so far. The latest update to the iPhone is truly great and I’m looking forward to what February brings with real applications from third-party developers.

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