Palm opened up its WebOS developer program to the public on Thursday, saying it expects to see a flood of new applications developed for the mobile OS.

"We look forward to some incredible growth in our application catalog this year," said Katie Mitic, Palm's senior vice president of product marketing, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Palm released the software development kit for WebOS last year and opened the platform up to a limited number of developers last August. Since then, about 1,000 applications have been developed for the OS, which powers Palm's Pre and Pixi handsets.

source: pcworld.com