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by Dieter Bohn Sat, 24 Apr 2010 12:46 pm EDT

Palm has released several tools for developers to help promote their apps in conjunction with their Hot Apps $1 million promotion. The first bit is that in addition to the previously-mentioned Hot Apps Leaderboard at http://palmhotapps.com/, there the Hot Apps Pride Kit. The pride kit consists of a set of widgets and tools to help developers promote their apps on their own websites to show off your app's position in the Hot Apps contest - heck, creating the widgets doesn't look too difficult, so even users will be able to take part. We'll be adding support for these widgets at PreCentral soon, stay tuned.

Palm has also put together a Hot Apps Marketing Kit to help developers promote their apps on social networks. The kit suggests how to optimize your app's description, how to utilize Facebook and Twitter, and plenty more. All their suggestions are free and, well, we'll humbly add our own PreCentral Featured Apps Program to the list.

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13 Comments

Posted by chilin on Sat, 24 Apr 2010 12:51 pm EDT

primero!

Posted by chilin on Sat, 24 Apr 2010 12:57 pm EDT

primero!

Posted by frogpre on Sat, 24 Apr 2010 12:58 pm EDT

allez palm ! allez bravo!!

Posted by mr2dxtream on Sat, 24 Apr 2010 1:23 pm EDT

No offense palm but kinda hard for people to trust your marketing abilities...

Posted by pyrognome on Sat, 24 Apr 2010 2:34 pm EDT

you see, the problem is not marketing the apps, the problem is on palms corporate end of things. The dev relations team needs to take over carrier marketing. The carrier marketing team has much to learn from developers and their marketing abilities.

Posted by kaboomaboom on Sat, 24 Apr 2010 2:31 pm EDT

It's free promotional tools! what is there not to like! go Palm!

Posted by dbalmer on Mon, 26 Apr 2010 1:47 am EDT

+1

Posted by heyguydaq on Sat, 24 Apr 2010 3:31 pm EDT

the best martketers for a product are the users and developers, good move, but its true, corporate needs to meet and work with the creativity that the developers may come up with. Palm is making an effort and trying to build momentum

Posted by kayahr on Sun, 25 Apr 2010 12:50 pm EDT

Nice. Added the hotapps widget to my blog. If someone here is using the blog software Serendipity and is interested in a Palm Hot Apps Plugin, then contact me and I send you the code.

Posted by ldj on Sun, 25 Apr 2010 3:30 pm EDT

OK, but why waste time on this when you could commit resources to updates to the OS, Sdk or hardware....The best marketing gift from Palm for developers is a bigger buying market not bloody facebook widgets! *sigh*

Posted by dbalmer on Mon, 26 Apr 2010 1:49 am EDT

Commit marketing resources to updating the SDK or the OS? Are you nuts?! Also, if you'd just go one story up, you might see that Palm is adding a hell of a lot of new stuff to the OS and SDK. As a developer, I'm ecstatic about all the announcements this weekend. Palm's engineering team is kicking ASS.

Posted by ldj on Mon, 26 Apr 2010 3:51 am EDT

Marketing resources didn't code these! Developers coded these....

Posted by liv4rc51 on Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:32 am EDT

as it's been said here, the best marketing is through the user & developers!