Are you an individual or enterprise with a great idea for an app, but don’t have the time or expertise to do it? Palm’s got your back. In yet another example of how the company is going the extra mile to foster a thriving development ecosystem, Palm has published a list of webOS developers and consultants who are offering their services. According to the Palm Developer Blog:

“We’ve gotten lots of inquiries about what companies are available to do webOS development. So to help out, we’ve put together a list of third-party developers and consultants who would love to help.”

The list presently consists of ten developers, two consultants and one project management team, but we expect this link-up site to grow exponentially. Good stuff, Palm. Keep it up.

If you are a webOS developer or consultant and would like to enlist your services, contact Palm at pdc@palm.com.

[Source: Palm Developer Blog]

Thanks to everyone who contributed last night and stuck it out through all the obstacles we overcame. I’m proud to announce the fruit of our labor:  Relego! Relego is a Read It Later client for webOS. What is Read It Later you ask? Read It Later is a site that collects bookmarks for you to read later (hence the name).  They have browser plugins that allow you to quickly mark a page for later reading and, when you have time, you can browse through your saved bookmarks and catch up on your reading.

In addition to creating the app there is also a patch for the webOS browser that will allow you to mark pages you’re reading on your phone for addition to your Read It Later queue.  More details on that when it appears in the patch feed.  Additionally, we have set up an API for app developers to use so that they can patch in to Read It Later. In fact, we’ll be adding support for that to our very own webOSroundup To Go app shortly.

Please keep in mind that the app is still an early Beta and people are still excited about working on it.  If you would like to contribute head over to the Relego Wiki article and find out what remains to be done.

Again, thank you to the webOS developer community and to Palm.  You are what make developing for webOS so great!

According to reports in PreCentral’s forum webOS 1.4.5 has arrived for those on O2 in the UK.  It looks like this version is the same as was released earlier for other carriers in Europe and does not contain a fix for the PDK issues we discussed recently.  However, it may be that Palm was able to address the issue without requiring a bump in the revision of webOS.  If so, it will likely require an update for those who already have 1.4.5 installed.

This update weighs in at 9MB.  The version notes for O2 have not been updated as this was published. We’ll keep you updated as we find out more.

Update: It seems the PDK issue is unresolved and other carriers should be getting the 1.4.5 deployment soon. If you’re updating, please be sure to check for incompatible patches before updating.

Google today announced the beta release of App Inventor, a visual design tool similar to Palm’s Ares.  The tool aims to allow the creation of Android applications without the need to learn programming.  Similar to Ares, App Inventor allows app creation by dragging and dropping components onto a visual representation of a smartphone screen.  Also, similarly, the tool is a Web-based.  It is from this point that the two systems diverge.

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webOS 1.4.5 patch notes have made another mysterious appearance on Palm’s Web site.  Palm’s website shows ‘Sprint Pre’ on ‘SFR’ along with the version notes. As we saw before with the earlier leaked version notes there aren’t a lot of customer-facing fixes in webOS 1.4.5.  Interestingly, Palm’s English O2 page still does not reflect the webOS 1.4.5 update (though the German page has them).  Will Sprint and Verizon be far behind?  Keep reading for an important announcement about updating if you’ve applied patches to your webOS device:

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