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A few days ago we wrote about Mel Sampat, a member of the Windows Phone 7 <\/a>development team who had chosen to leave the team to pursue his own endeavors, part of which included making third-party apps for the very platform he helped make. You might assume that his history with the platform would make developing things for it a bit easier — and, well, you’d probably be right. <\/p>\n Just two days after the general availability of the Windows Phone 7 development tools<\/a>, Sampat’s company Mist Labs has just announced their first Windows Phone 7 application: Twikini. Besides being the company’s first app, it also gets to claim to be the <\/span><\/p>\n Mist Labs had said from the beginning that one of their goals was to help already established applications\/brands bring their wares to WP7, and that’s exactly the case here. Mist Labs worked in collaboration with Trinket Software<\/a>, who originally made Trikini for WP7’s aging sibling, Windows Mobile 6.5.<\/p>\n There’s no word yet on pricing — but given that there’s no sign of advertising in the screenshots they’ve shown so far, I wouldn’t expect it to be free. The price of the original Twikini was $4.95; combine that with the fact that there will inevitably be dozens upon dozens of Twitter apps by the time WP7 launches in 7-8 months, and Twikini probably won’t set you back more than a buck or two.<\/p>\n Update:<\/strong> False alarm on the “first” part – Seesmic was one of Microsoft’s software partners announced at MIX earlier this week, making it the first on the platform.<\/p>\nfirst<\/s> Update: second (see below) <\/strong> Twitter client announced for the platform. <\/p>\n