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"Today we officially announce that Campfire has been optimized for the iPhone. Just visit your Campfire site with Safari on the iPhone and you'll automatically see the iPhone optimized version.

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The company says that if users setup mail on their iPhones simply by tapping the "Gmail" icon, the v1.1.3 upgrade will convert access from POP to IMAP. The result is that messages read on an iPhone will also appear as read in the Gmail web interface and any deletions will move messages to the web Trash bin, where they will be permanently deleted after 30 days.

Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February. We are excited about creating a vibrant third party developer community around the iPhone and enabling hundreds of new applications for our users. With our revolutionary multi-touch interface, powerful hardware and advanced software architecture, we believe we have created the best mobile platform ever for developers.

It will take until February to release an SDK because we’re trying to do two diametrically opposed things at once—provide an advanced and open platform to developers while at the same time protect iPhone users from viruses, malware, privacy attacks, etc. This is no easy task. Some claim that viruses and malware are not a problem on mobile phones—this is simply not true. There have been serious viruses on other mobile phones already, including some that silently spread from phone to phone over the cell network. As our phones become more powerful, these malicious programs will become more dangerous. And since the iPhone is the most advanced phone ever, it will be a highly visible target.

P.S.: The SDK will also allow developers to create applications for iPod touch.

Yeah, you read that right folks... It's not a webapp made for iPhone, but rather a real, Native iPhone application!

The folks at Delicious Monster have conjured up an addictive game called Lights Out. The objective is to switch all of the lights out. Tapping a light toggles it, along with the four adjacent lights. Once you switch all of the lights out, you'll advance to the next level!

The app was created by Lucas Newman and Adam Betts and requires some hacking in order to get it installed but it's well worth the effort. Perhaps if more apps like this one start coming out, Apple will take notice and start opening up the iPhone.

Download Lights Out here.

DemoApp is an application on the iPhone you probably didn't even know you had. It allows the iphone to play a single movie over and over in a repeat loop. Eric Sadun over at TUAW has a run down on the DemoApp. Heres a sample:

Where is DemoApp located?
It's found in /Applications. You will not be able to see this application without hacking your iPhone.

How do I make my iPhone automatically play a movie?
Place an h.264-encoded movie named Demo.mov into /private/var/root. Reboot your iPhone. (Power down and then re-power on.) The iPhone automatically opens your movie and begins playing it on a loop.

How do I make it stop?
Remove the movie from /private/var/root and reboot.

For the complete lowdown on DemoApp check out Erica's post on TUAW.

For those of you who want to activate an iPhone without using iTunes so you can use a non-iPhone AT&T SIM, you can now do this without doing a bit of command-line or accessing the terminal.

iActivator is here and it basically is a program that doesn't require you to open the terminal at all. Be warned though... this is still "beta-ish" software and if you're afraid of "bricking" your iPhone, better not to do it.

So maybe this isn't a web app per-se, but we've found out about a pretty cool way to spend some time with your iPhone. It's a web comic. Sure you can view any web comic on your iPhone, but this one is specifically formatted for the iPhone which we thought was really cool!

nemu*nemu is a really cute web comic thats worth reading if you have some time to kill and want something to check out on your iPhone. The style is leans toward "anime" so this may or may not be your cup of tea, but so far we've enjoyed what we've seen. The comic is perfectly formatted for the iPhone in standard position since the comic is done vertically.

Give it a shot... it's funny and it's free!

nemu*nemu iPhone edition can be found http://nemu-nemu.com/iphone/.

Blue Flavor has created a really cool portal with iPhone optimized apps! These aren't your run of the mill iPhone apps that you've probably tried and though "ho hum". These are really nicely built and have fast load times, even on EDGE yet still maintain the iPhone UIish look.

Leaflets includes a Search App, RSS Feeds app, Newsvine and New York Times reader and even del.icio.us and Flickr! Leaflets requires Safari 3.0 and you'll enjoy it more on your iPhone.

Give this iPhone-optomized web app portal a shot and see how you like it!

Get Leaflets Now!

Social bookmarking site Digg has just released their iPhone ready version of Digg. The interface is simple and elegant and makes looking through Digg a pleasure on the iPhone. The best feature? The permalink page grabs ONLY the top 5 moderated comments. If you've ever used Digg, you know this is a FEATURE. The less Digg comments for viewing, the better.

So what are you waiting for? Go check Digg for iPhone app out now!

iPhone apps are popping up everywhere! Created during the 3 day iPhone programmers boot camp last weekend, an impressive 57 new iPhone apps were created. All of them of course are web applications.

57 iPhone Apps are available here.