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- Palm's WebOS Now Has 1,000 Apps. Only 99,000 To Go To Catch Up To Apple.
- Six New Years Resolutions For Apple And The iPhone In 2010
- Wibiya's Powerful Web-Based Toolbar Adds Twitter, Facebook, And Video Chat To Any Site
| Palm's WebOS Now Has 1,000 Apps. Only 99,000 To Go To Catch Up To Apple. | Top |
| Palm’s App Store has reached a milestone. According to WebOS School, Palm now offers 1000 apps to its mobile users on its App Catalog. Of course, this number has to be taken with a grain of salt. Apple’s App Store has over 100,000 apps and the Android market has over 16,000 apps, making Palm’s achievement a little less thrilling. The relatively small amount of apps for Palm isn’t surprising; Palm has had a lag in adding apps to its store for some time now and has not been able to match the speed or breadth of Apple’s App ecosystem. But it’s safe to assume that Palm may be adding apps more quickly now, after the company announced an easier approval process for apps and the ability to allow developers to fully distribute their apps via the web. What this means is that developers can simply submit their apps to Palm, and Palm will return to them a URL that they can then blog, tweet, do whatever they want to share it. When a person then clicks on that URL they can easily install the app, bypassing any kind of store. Palm realizes that it has to play nice with developers in order to get them to build on top of its software. Will the App Catalog ever catch up to Apple’s App Store? Probably not, but Palm’s strategy could definitely still make the mobile device company a player in the mobile device world. Here’s a list of the most downloaded apps from Palm’s App Catalog (they are all free) and a breakdown by type of app: 1. The Weather Channel 2. AccuWeather 3. Backgrounds 4. Topple Ball Mini 5. Pandora Radio 6. WHERE 7. Bubbles! 8. Card Ace: Hold ‘Em 9. Bubble Level 10. Trapster Crunch Network : CrunchBase the free database of technology companies, people, and investors | |
| Six New Years Resolutions For Apple And The iPhone In 2010 | Top |
| Last night, as we waited for Carson Daly to tell us that it was time to make a lot of noise, I found myself laying on my buddy’s lawn with glass number one-too-many of something toxic in my hand. As I stared up at the stars, I pondered something I’d imagine most of the country was pondering as well: Does Steve Jobs make New Years Resolutions? I mean, really; outside of continuing to kick cancer’s ass and perhaps expanding his wardrobe, there’s probably not much that needs resolving in El Jobso’s personal life. His number one pet project (outside of that other one ), however, could probably use a bit of work right now. Read the rest of this post at MobileCrunch >> Crunch Network : CrunchBase the free database of technology companies, people, and investors | |
| Wibiya's Powerful Web-Based Toolbar Adds Twitter, Facebook, And Video Chat To Any Site | Top |
| There’s no shortage of web-based interactive toolbars to choose from. This week, a new Israeli startup, Wibiya , is publicly launching its compelling web-based, customizable toolbar to publishers. Wibiya’s toolbar for blogs and publishers integrated services, social media sites, applications and widgets. Everything is customizable, giving publishers the ability to add Facebook Connect, enabling Twitter alerts, and more fairly easily. The toolbar has a fairly in-depth integration with Twitter, Search, latest tweets, Tweets about each page and more. Publishers can also bring their Facebook Fan Page stream to the toolbar. Interestingly, Wibiya has an “app store” of sorts, where publishers can customize their bars with a variety of apps, including Google Translate, YouTube, games and more. Unfortunately the app store is limited with only 25 apps at the moment. Wibiya also has deep integration with TinyChat, which lets publishers have their own video/text chat feature on their sites. As users login to chat, they can Tweet out the URL to the page they are in, helping publishers build traffic. Of course, Wibiya is still not as feature-rich as some of the other toolbars but it’s certainly off to a good start. But it’s a competitive space with Conduit, Meebo, MySpace, Yahoo, Digg and many others in the game. Crunch Network : CrunchBoard because it’s time for you to find a new Job2.0 | |
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