If you’re too impatient to wait for Google to release its own iPhone app or Safari-optimized version of Google Analytics you might want to check out myAnalytics. This $1.99 iPhone application (app store link) lets you see a general overview of how your sites are doing, and stores the data locally on your device so you can access it when you’re away from a data connection. Considering Google’s most recent release of Analytics requires Adobe Flash, this is the easiest way to get it short of getting your hands on a real computer.

While convenient, it is worth noting that myAnalytics can get bogged down if you intend on using it for more than eight different sites. Also, the current version only shows you basic numbers and a small chart, unlike Google Analytics, which lets you dig deeper into each component of your site. Version 1.1, which is coming soon, will let you view each individual stat on its own graph, which is a good start.

Related: Sergej Müller’s mobile Safari-friendly version of Google Analytics (Note: this only lets you see page views and visitor counts.)

If you’re trying to access Google Analytics on the go you can avoid looking at the Flash cube of fail, and instead see some simple, and colorful graphs and charts with myAnalytics.

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OneSite, a company that works with businesses to help them create their own social networks for customers, on Monday announced that it’s coming to mobile devices in the form of eNotify. This product, the company’s first mobile solution, will provide enterprises already deploying OneSite’s offerings a mobile presence. Members of the communities will get a mobile place to find out when friends are online and when special promotions or events are happening.

“eNotify essentially extends the social network community platform beyond the computer by enabling users to follow the latest developments on their mobile device,” said Thad Martin, vice president of strategy and business development at OneSite. “It goes beyond traditional syndication tools like RSS by providing users a mechanism to interact with the content they receive by immediately posting a response or forwarding it to others, for example, just like they would from their Web browser.”

Aside from updating users about online friends and the news, eNotify can be used by organizations to deliver targeted brand messages to the app’s users. According to the company, GPS mapping technology can be employed by retailers and brand marketers to inform users about new product launches and special promotions in their particular area and use the mapping feature to pinpoint where the promotions are taking place.

eNotify will let you check friend status and find events in your area.

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“Events will be a major part of the application,” Martin said. “Event promoters, like radio and TV stations, entertainment venues, and others, can use eNotify to send out instant updates on events happening at a certain time, in a specific location, and to only those subscribers within proximity of the venue, if desired.”

eNotify will be integrated into OneSite’s current social offerings, but some companies may need to pay an additional fee to have access to the service. That’s probably bad news for OneSite’s partners: current plans start at $49.95 per month for a bare-bones social-networking package offering features like groups and forums, but quickly skyrocket to $5,000 per month, plus a $75,000 deployment charge if they want full Web integration.

eNotify will officially launch as a free iPhone app later this year and will be followed by additional iterations that will be compatible with any Web-enabled mobile device soon thereafter.

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Here at the CTIA Wireless conference in San Francisco, Quickoffice, historically a mobile documents viewer for Nokia phones, is showing off demos for four new iPhone and iPod Touch apps aimed at Apple’s contingent of MobileMe users.

The first, called MobileFiles, will let you view e-mail attachments, including Google and Box.net documents from your iPhone, something that iPhones don’t currently allow. Quickoffice is expected to launch MobileFiles as a free, view-only app in November.

Following that, Quickoffice plans to release three more applications for reading and editing spreadsheets, Microsoft Word documents, and PowerPoint presentations, respectively. Called Quicksheet, Quickpoint, and Quickword, the three editors will likely go for $10 apiece. On the performance end, Quicksheet and Quickword clearly displayed MobileMe attachments as multipage files and allowed users two ways to edit by tapping the screen. $30 seems like a hefty surcharge for the privilege of editing and saving all three document types back to the MobileMe account from the iPhone, especially when the viewing documents alone will be free. Not all users will need all three editors, but those who do should receive a markdown for purchasing the entire suite.

Unless a competitor steps up to challenge the pricing and app layout, by the time Quickoffice’s premium applications launch in Q1, Quickoffice will have the market advantage. We haven’t heard much from DataViz, the likeliest contender, about an iPhone play, though with the company fresh off releasing new versions of its flagship viewer, Documents To Go, for Windows Mobile Pocket PCs and BlackBerry, iPhone is their next logical platform to conquer.

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GoPlanit is a service for travelers to find things to do in places they’ve never been. It removes the need to buy travel books by automatically figuring out your itinerary based on budget, physical health, and how much free time you’ve got.

The automatic planning feature is only available in a handful of cities, but is quite similar to autofill in Apple’s iTunes. Clicking the “plan it” button automatically drops in things to do, and if you don’t like one of the picked items you can delete it and get it filled in with something else that’s nearby.

It uses a recommendation engine based on rated items from other GoPlanit users and reviews from places like CitySearch, Yelp and local newspapers. The items are placed in your schedule based on hours of operation per business or attraction, and grouped together by location. You can tweak a bunch of sliders like how much “intensity” you want, and how much you’re willing to spend and it will adjust accordingly. For someone who is out of shape or a physical fitness nut this control will let either party tweak it to the appropriate level.

The site comes with a companion iPhone application so you can get mobile access to the itineraries with the phone numbers and addresses. This also lets you change something on the fly, or see other items from GoPlanit’s directory. You can dump your entire itinerary into Google Calendar too.

Where all of this has real potential to come together is when it can take the recommendations from past trips and put them toward future ones. In a perfect world this would mean you’d have more targeted things to do when you’re visiting new places. A post-trip debriefing on what was good and bad is a good first step.

GoPlanit is one of the few services from the TechCrunch50 conference to make its launch at the exact same time of its demo. You can check it out here.

Launching right now.

This trip in San Francisco was automatically generated by GoPlanit. It’s smart enough to group together daily activities by what area you’re in.

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At DemoFall, Mapflow demonstrated its iPhone application, designed to automate carpooling. The product was just one of many shown built around the iPhone at the event.

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SAN DIEGO–At Demo and DemoFall, there are always easily identifiable trends among the dozens of companies chosen to present their products.

In previous iterations of the events that I’ve attended, those trends have been photo-sharing services, online video hosting, Web 2.0, and the like.

This week, the trend–at least as I’ve seen it–has been the number of companies here with iPhone applications. Not every one of them is talking prominently about the applications they have, but Demo lead organizer Chris Shipley told me informally that she thinks that there must be at least a couple dozen companies with iPhone applications here out of the 72 total presenters.

I’ll be the first to admit that I was slow to understand the value of iPhone apps, and I suppose that’s because it took me awhile to buy one of the devices, and even longer after I did before I started trolling the Apple App Store looking for the best and brightest of what was out there.

My major introduction to the applications was a day I spent last month in Seattle, basically letting a series of them control my life for a day. And more recently, I have found myself blown away by some of the most simple applications imaginable. For example, Showtimes determines where you are and then comes up with a list of movie theaters–sorted by proximity to you–and shows the films showing at each and the times for each film.

As I said, it’s totally simple, and pure genius.

Ultimately, while other mobile phones have many of the features of the iPhone, I don’t think that there will be any others in the near future that combine GPS, a great interface, the power of an operating system like OS X, and a network of developers eager to reach out to an audience of users as devoted to their devices as iPhone owners.

Back here at DemoFall, there is definitely no shortage of companies that have developed applications for the device, and some of them seem very promising to me, even though most have yet to appear in the App Store.

I have my own ideas, as I stated above, why I think iPhone apps are the future of software, but I thought these developers would have opinions even more valuable than mine, since they’re building businesses around the platform.

WebDiet built an iPhone application designed to help people find restaurants that serve the kind of healthy food they want to eat.

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Among the companies incorporating the iPhone into their Demo products are WebDiet, Telnic, SkyData, The Echo Nest, and Rudder.

“Right now, (the iPhone is) the platform with the most immediacy,” said Richard Bryce, CEO of Mapflow, a company here with a product centered around an iPhone app. “Especially for the consumer market.”

It’s easy to see why Bryce would think so.

Mapflow is a very interesting product designed around the idea of helping drivers offset the high costs of gas by finding people who need rides to pay to fill empty seats in their cars.

“Most of our lives are ad hoc,” Bryce said. “We’re trying to apply the iPhone’s smart technology to give that ad hoc, on-demand capability to carpooling.”

The Mapflow system works by letting drivers define routes–either one-time, or repeat–they’re following and the number of seats they have available to fill. The iPhone makes it simple to do this through lists that can be easily displayed and because the phone’s GPS chip quickly determines where the driver is in proximity to anyone looking for a ride.

It might sound weird to pick up strangers in this manner, but Mapflow requires that all users register with their name, a photo, and a credit card, and that means that drivers can feel confident that whomever they pick up is probably going to be safe. And when they arrive to pick up the rider, the iPhone displays the rider’s picture so the driver can be sure the person is who he or she is supposed to be.

In addition, drivers and riders alike can choose preferences for the type of person with whom they want to travel. This means, for example, that women can choose to ride only with other women.

Further, the service has a quick and easy rating system–again, enabled by the iPhone’s elegant interface–that allows everyone to weigh in on the people with whom they’ve traveled.

Riders pay about 30 cents a mile to use the system, and Mapflow makes its money from a 15 percent commission on the transactions. Drivers pocket the rest.

Clearly, there are many questions the company must answer before the product becomes profitable–and of course, it must first release the application, which it plans to do in about four weeks. But this seems to me to be a very good use of the device, especially given the growing emphasis on getting people to stop driving one to a car.

Another company relying on the iPhone for a product unveiled at DemoFall is Dial Directions.

Say Where, an iPhone application from Dial Directions, aims to give iPhone users the ability to employ speech recognition to get information from services like Yelp and MapQuest.

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This company’s Say Where app is designed to give iPhone users a way to get geographic information from several services–Yelp, YellowPages.com, and Ask.com among them–by simply saying into the device’s microphone where they want to go.

The Say Where software is based on voice recognition technology, and in this case, it relies on the quality of the iPhone microphone, suggested Dial Directions co-founder Amit Desai.

Even more important, given the geographical nature of the application, is the iPhone’s ability to know where it is at any given time, either through the GPS chip in the 3G model or its triangulation ability on the earlier model.

Another company, Blue Lava Technologies, is incorporating the iPhone into the I Love Photos product, which it unveiled at DemoFall on Monday.

That product is a photo-sharing and -tagging service designed to help people automatically build more contextual meaning into the thousands of digital photos they take.

This works in part by having people tag photos of people, especially those in their address books, with their names. Then, the software is able to append those tags to other pictures of the same people, a la photos added to Facebook.

Cory Shaw, Blue Lava’s director of user experience, said the iPhone was a natural device for which to develop, in part because, for now, I Love Photos is available only on the Mac.

The iPhone is “the perfect tool for what we’ve…built,” Shaw said. “Just because the Mac and the iPhone (are) so well integrated with your address book. And just (because the iPhone has the) ability to snap photos. It’s just a natural progression because of what we’ve already built.”

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Tingz is a new widget engine whose big feature is cross platform data sharing. At the TechCrunch50 conference it was shown off on a Mac, iPhone and Windows Media Center PC, with various widgets pulling together the same data set.

The example given was a recipe widget on your computer that tells you how to make something, and if you don’t have one of the ingredients you can bookmark it. This information gets ported over to a shopping list widget, which you can then access on-the-go via the iPhone application.

Presumably users would have it installed on both platforms to make the most use of it. When added on your desktop computer it adds contextual options on a system level so you can clip text, links, or other items and send them to your widget sandbox. Like Shifd, a cross-platform notes tool I use, this is handy way to port it around.

The Windows Media Center app might have been the most out of place, as it was advertised as being large and eye friendly but the text still looked incredibly small. It runs as an application within Media Center, which could make it useful for getting some Web video widgets to run right on your TV.

There are already a ton of services that have this cross platform data sharing, and panelist Digg.com’s Kevin Rose pointed out these tools are invariably at odds with the built-in widget platforms found on OS X and Windows Vista. The one thing I think it has going for it is the built-in payment platform where you give Tingz your credit card credentials and and developers can let you pay for services via their widgets. This was shown off for something like buying movie tickets.

The service is currently in private beta and requires a software installation on all three platforms.

Tings has widgets that share data across multiple platforms, starting with three popular ones.

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Earlier Monday one of my colleagues from Gamespot spent most of lunch gushing to me about his new favorite GTD tool. Called Toodledo, it’s diminutive name does not do its to-do list prowess justice–this is one of the most deep and full-featured offerings on the market. It’s also one of the easiest to get into, especially if you’re using other Web services like Google Calendar, Twitter, and Jott.

At its heart Toodledo is a task organizer, so two of the most important aspects should be entering in the data as well as being able to access it from all over the place. Luckily it does a great job on both counts. You can plug into your task list from all sorts of places including mobile phones, start pages like Netvibes and MyYahoo, Twitter, and on various widget engines like OS X’s Dashboard and Vista’s Sidebar. In any case the interface is pretty familiar: just a simple rundown of what you have to do and some empty boxes to check off whatever you’ve dealt with.

ToodleDo’s iPhone Web app is pretty and lets you add items while offline. (click to enlarge)

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Two of Toodledo’s most handy input methods are actually outside of its core Web service. Using speech-to-text service Jott you can simply call in and leave a to-do item. It will convert your call into one or more to-do items while managing to pull out any dates and times. Having used this with ReQall’s iPhone application (coverage) it’s just plain handy, albeit a minute killer if you’re on a tight cellular plan.

The other method I like is the Firefox extension that lets you create and manage list items without having to use a separate application, or you keeping the site open in another tab. It also includes a contextual menu shortcut, so say you get an e-mail from a friend about their favorite wine, you can simply highlight the name, and right click to send it to your to-buy list. You can also do this with entire chunks of text and it will simply pull the dates and add the entire clipboard into the notes section of that item.

Also of note is the iPhone Web app, which made waves for being one of the first to-do lists to get optimization for Safari mobile. What makes it cool is that you can enter items even while you’re away from a data connection, as long as you’ve got the entire page loaded. This isn’t as good of a solution as a native application–something that could give you reminders, notifications, and be accessible offline, but it’s still quite handy as its own management system.

Toodledo has far more features than you’re bound to use. Those looking for more, including a file storage system for group to-do collaboration, as well as an analytics system that crunches through your task history to find trends, can be had with two premium plans that run $15 and $30 a year respectively. You can see a full breakdown of what’s included and what’s not, along with what the competitors have to offer on this page.

Related:Shifd reimagines the desktop Post-It note

Manage all your to-do list items in one place, or many with Toodledo, one of the most full featured to-do list tools we’ve run across. (click to enlarge)

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