Apple Launches New Directory Of Web Apps For iPhone

In an effort to help popularize the iPhone Safari browser, Apple has launched a new directory that highlights 200 web apps that work in the browser.

The applications are organized in categories such as the most recent viewed, most popular, alphabetical and staff picks. The featured Web software on Thursday was a Facebook application that connects the iPhone to the popular social network in order to visits friends’ pages, upload and share photos, or send and receive messages.

Other software listed as staff picks include a puzzle game called Sudoku, Fandango and MovieTickets.com applications for buying movie tickets, mobile dictionaries of translation for English, French, Spanish and German; and WeatherBug for checking on the local weather anywhere in the world. The directory provides a URL for each of the applications to access the service.

So far Apple has not made it easy for developers to add applications for the iPhone. Whether that will change as time progresses is anybody’s guess.