The iPhone has proven to be a strong content creation tool, with applications that allow the user to create graphics and presentations, record video, sequence audio, or draft compositions. But while it gives users plenty of tools to create, it doesn't exactly have a uniform tool to let users manage, move, and share their creations: some apps are integrated with some services, others are integrated with different ones...some aren't integrated with anything at all.

Cloud-based storage and collaboration service Box.net claims to provide an answer to this problem, but it needs the apps behind it to make it come true.

Today, Box.net debuted its OpenBox Mobile API and developer program for iPhone to help developers connect their applications with Box.net's cloud storage and management platform. Already used in a handful of apps, Box.net is now offering its API for free to encourage adoption of its online services, which are aimed at handling large quantities of app-specific files.

iPhone Mindmapping apps such as iThoughts by CMS and iBlueSky by Tenero Software already use Box.net to let a user export his mindmap files to his free or premium Box.net account, where they are accessible by other devices and other users. Similarly, Android multi-uploader Pixelpipe integrates with Box.net, as do several apps for Windows Mobile and Symbian S60.

The company says it plans to launch an API for webOS, Android, and BlackBerry in the near future, but the initial focus will be on attracting those goldrush iPhone developers.