Though its had an application store of its own for many months now, Palm’s webOS has really yet to flourish as a development platform. As it currently stands, webOS’ App Catalog only offers up around 400 applications. This stunted growth is largely because Palm still considers the App Catalog “beta” – thus, they’re being rather selective with what gets in. Once the beta tag is pulled away, however, Palm expects a barrage of applications to hit their store.
While plenty of these new apps are sure to be free, their developers still need to put food on the table. Looking to capture these developers before the floodgates open, AdMob is today announcing beta support for the webOS platform.
They offer one ad unit at the moment, which can be placed inside of a webOS app to push CPC text ads or CPM banner ads. To comply with Palm’s app distribution strategy (which allows app developers to make apps for webOS without paying the $99 developer’s fee, be it that their application is completely open-source), AdMob has made their webOS SDK entirely open source.
You can check out the new SDK over at AdMob’s Google Code page.
Again the TC reporters got something wrong and can’t check facts properly.
There are now more tha 510 apps approved and about the same from the homebrew crowd.
are u serious? That number changes everyday, give them a break. Plus he did said “offers up around 400 applications” just like the app store is around 120000 when really could be something like 12567.
Well, this is pretty cool. I didn’t have the slightest idea that the ads I were seeing on my iPhone came from one source. Admob is such a potential advertising firm that’s when shaked-lightly could produce an extremely big (ROI) Return of Investment to BIG G
Will Admob be The New Adsense for Mobile? http://bit.ly/admob-the-new-adsense-for-mobile
You gotta love the timing of Google – having a recent release of Android powered Phones then buying this mobile-advertising firm.
When you’re talking about the difference between a few hundred and tens of thousands (or hundreds of thousands) of apps, “510″ is very much “around 400 applications”.
Also, relax.
I missed the part of your article that was comparing the webos cayalog to the iphone’s.
great comeback
Get your facts right, Joey. There are now 512 apps.
I have developed 3 apps for the palm pre and two of them used this admob sdk
I made around 15 dollars in 6 hours today, and they
blocked my account for invalid activity or repeated policy violations
I did nothing wrong I was just earning some honest money and the screwed, and I also have seen several reports about the same issue
even though google bought it seems that adsense
is better than this crap
Palm’s new WebOS passed its first test: it looks good. But will the device attract legions of developers?
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