Palm doubles size of webOS developer community

A week after promising to accelerate the growth of its early access program for webOS development, Palm reports its webOS developer community doubled in size overnight after the device maker sent out its first batch of invitations requesting programmers to sign on. "This is just the first set of new members--our plan is to double the size of the program again in the next week, and then continue the growth as fast as we can until everyone who wants the SDK has access to it," writes Palm Developer Community Manager Chuq Von Rospach on the Palm Developer Network Blog . "If you didn't get an invite, please be patient--we're working on it and will continue to work to get as many of you into the program as fast as we can." In related webOS news, the Palm Pre's App Catalog storefront topped the 1 million application download benchmark last week. According to market research firm Medialets , Palm has sold more than 150,000 Pre smartphones so far--despite the availability of only a few dozen ... (link)