HP: webOS 2.0 coming to all existing devices

Speaking at HP's webOS Developer Day in New York City, developer advocate Josh Marinacci announced that webOS 2.0 would be coming to all previously released webOS devices "in the coming months." That timeline may not be particularly specific, but we're sure Palm fans will be happy to know that they are not being left out in the cold by HP.

Current and future owners of the Pre, Pixi, and Pre Plus will soon be able to upgrade to webOS 2.0, as far as HP concerned. As always, carriers will probably have other plans. The announcement also means that developers targeting webOS will only have to worry about one version, unlike on platforms as fragmented as Android. You can watch the announcement in the video below, as first posted by PreCentral.

Last month, HP officially introduced webOS 2.0, the most significant update to the platform since its launch in 2009, along with the Palm Pre 2, the first device to sport it. Four more webOS 2.0 devices are slated to arrive in early 2011, meaning once the older devices are supported, developers will be able to target eight webOS 2.0 devices in total.

Version 2.0 features Stacks, JustType, as well as Skype and Facebook support. HP also touts "true multitasking," which means you never have to close an app to do something else, and Flash 10.1 beta support in the browser. HP acquired Palm for $1.2 billion and while many thought the company would kill the project, so far it has done the exact opposite.

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Thinking Outside the In-box

Search the Internet, and you'll find hundreds of applications designed to help you collaborate with other people more effectively. But examine your own habits, and you'll most likely find that you use just one piece of software for that purpose: an e-mail client.

You're not alone. A recent Forrester Research study found that 83 percent of business users typically send e-mail attachments to colleagues rather than using collaboration software. According to a recent survey by technology consulting company People-OnTheGo, the average information worker spends 3.3 hours a day dealing with e-mail, and 65 percent of such workers have their e-mail client open all the time.

Even Facebook, which once seemed like a likely replacement for e-mail, at least for the young and plugged-in, has acknowledged that e-mail isn't going anywhere. On Monday, the company announced a new messaging service that integrates external e-mail with its own internal messaging system?an admission of the staying power of e-mail, and an attempt to enhance its functionality.

Other software makers seem to have accepted that they'll never pull people's attention away from their e-mail in-boxes. Instead, they're looking to add new collaborative and social capabilities to e-mail.

"It's clear that e-mail is being used and even abused," says Yaacov Cohen, CEO of Mainsoft, a company based in Tel Aviv, Israel, that sells a plug-in called Harmon.ie. The plug-in links an e-mail application to a collaboration platform such as Google Docs, and to a person's social networking profiles, calendar applications, voice over Internet protocol software, and so on. To share a document using Harmon.ie, a user drags it from a sidebar to the body of a message, where it becomes a link. When the recipient clicks on the link, she is taken to the document stored in the chosen collaboration software. Using e-mail alone for collaboration creates confusion and overloads in-boxes, Cohen says.

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Postling, a social media platform to watch, from the founders of Etsy [TNW Social Media]

Postling is a New York City based start-up that provides social media tools for small businesses to engage with their customers and communities. Simply put, Dave Lifson, Postling?s founder and CEO ?wants to make social media easy and fast for everyone.?

The company launched in 2009 with an all-star roster of founders who met while working at start-up golden child Etsy, ?the world?s most vibrant handmade marketplace.? Chris Maguire and Haim Schoppik launched Etsy, and Lifson, a former Amazon engineer, worked as their head of product management. After a few changes in the C-Level suite, the gentleman left to pursue a new venture to help small businesses.

Enter Postling, a business that focuses entirely on small businesses and the small business owners who don?t have more than 5 minutes a day to deal with social media. Their service tracks Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr, Typepad, Squarespace, Drupal, Flickr and Bit.ly, among others, with publishing to YouTube coming soon. Unfortunately the Foursquare API doesn?t allow them to do much from the merchant end.

?What we?ve learned is that there is a lot you can get done in 5 minutes a day if you use the right tools like scheduling, email digests, instant notifications and reblogging. We?ve also found that people love content that gives a ?behind the scenes? look into a business ? who the owners are, information about where their ingredients are sourced from, the trips that owners take for business or vacation, the pets they own, etc. There are so many great ideas for posts that engage your fans that don?t necessarily have to be explicitly about your business.? ? Dave Lifson

With Postling, when you wake up in the morning you get an email listing every new social media related comment, such as new Yelp reviews or new comments on blogs, Facebook and Twitter. The e-mail is an easy way to scan through them and then decide what you need to respond to, if anything. Maria Baugh, a Postling client, runs Butter Lane, a delicious cupcake shop in New York City?s East Village. ?I am a huge fan of Postling,? she says. ?At Butter Lane, we have so much going on with social media, like keeping up with Facebook, Twitter and Yelp. We?re all over the place! I was constantly finding myself looking on Facebook and Twitter every couple hours and it was taking up so much time. I came across Postling in summer 2009 and they solved all of my problems. One of the things I like the most is their daily e-mail digest of all of my social media activities.?

Postling recently announced a new instant notification feature, which can be turned on so you also get an instant email of any new comments. With Postling?s keyword tracking system, you can track competitors too. There are two options when signing up for Postling, a free option, which will let you post, respond and schedule posts, and a premium option, which is great for clients who need to invest in reputation monitoring. The service costs $25/mo.

Up next, Postling is working on an analytics product. ?It?s going to be simple at first,? says Lifson, ?Something that will show you a graph of posts you?ve made over time and comments you?ve gotten. We are also working on Klout integration.? They?re designing the product for the small business owner who?s not tech savvy, the kind of person who doesn?t want to be overwhelmed with a whole bunch of data. ?We?d like to give them suggestions such as, ?Hey you have a new follower who?s very influential. You might want to reach out ot them and say Hi,? or ?You just got a Yelp review you might want to reblog.??

This week Postling accrued 15,000 users who have linked up 40,000 social media accounts. Their database is now tracking 10 million posts or new comments. They?ve also doubled in users since July and earlier this year had 7 consecutive months of over 30% month-over-month growth. Postling?s product is simple, which is why small business owners seem to love it but it does appear they could do a lot more with it to be more competitive with the HootSuites of the industry. In conclusion, Postling is a well built platform with a small pool of really talented employees packing powerful potential.

(And a note on one of their employees, in a complete coincidence, I follow Alexis Lamster, their VP of Customers, because she runs one of the most awesome Tumblr accounts ever. Prepare to drool.)

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White House Memo: An Electoral Upheaval, but Few Signs of Change

The Thursday meeting is now off ? pushed back to Nov. 30 after the Republicans complained that the White House had not consulted them about their schedule ? and the arms treaty, which faces stiff Republican opposition, is in jeopardy. Two weeks after a midterm election that both sides interpreted as a mandate to change the way Washington does business, little, it seems, has changed.

Just how little was underscored on Wednesday when the two parties finished electing their leaders for the new Congress ? the very same people, including Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, who will go from speaker to the House minority leader, who have spent the past two years at one another?s throats.

For Mr. Obama, who has promised ?midcourse corrections,? the developments are a stark reminder of just how difficult it will be to change the dynamic in Washington. While he was in Asia, top aides back in Washington sketched out their postelection agenda ? and came up with a relatively narrow list of items that might win Republican cooperation, including revamping President George W. Bush?s landmark education bill and extending certain business tax credits. The White House also sees an opportunity to work with Republicans to cut the pet projects known as earmarks. Dan Pfeiffer, Mr. Obama?s communications director, described the White House as ?hopeful but not naïve.?

But other Democrats say the president must come up with an aggressive strategy to put himself back in the driver?s seat. If he cannot pass legislation, they say, he must use his executive authority and the force of his office to advance his agenda in ways that do not require Republican cooperation. The Center for American Progress, a research group with close ties to the administration, put out a report this week called ?The Power of the President? that sought to identify areas where Mr. Obama can bypass Congress.

The report suggests that Mr. Obama can act on a host of domestic and foreign issues, like conserving federal lands, carrying out the Small Business Jobs Act, promoting mediation for homeowners seeking to avoid foreclosure and appointing a special envoy for the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, who could work with Yemen?s government on the terrorism threat there.

?He needs to rise above the definition of the presidency as just being a skirmish between Republicans and you,? said John D. Podesta, the president of the Center for American Progress and a former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton. ?If he spends two years in the scrum with these guys, that?s what they want. He?s capable of doing things on his own without them.?

The White House has given no sign of any major postelection reorganization or personnel shakeup, and Mr. Obama?s aides have not tipped their hand about how they might address issues, like reducing the deficit or overhauling the tax code, that could offer opportunities for bipartisan compromise.

As president, Mr. Clinton reached deals on the budget, welfare and other issues with the Republican majority that swept Congress in 1994. But if Mr. Clinton?s experience is any guide, it will take Mr. Obama time to find his footing.

Mr. Clinton fumbled for months while the new speaker, Newt Gingrich, captured the public imagination with his 100-day agenda. It was not until the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City in April 1995, Mr. Clinton?s former aides say, that he was able above to rise above the partisan fray with a speech challenging the notion that government was a problem.

?That was big turning point for him,? said Pat Griffin, Mr. Clinton?s director of legislative affairs at the time. ?We built it as something that was bigger than this bad fight.?

Building legislative and political coalitions will be tricky in the current environment. The Tea Party movement is pulling Republicans to the right and warning against compromise. The remaining House Democrats are predominantly liberal and are pushing Mr. Obama to the left. There are few moderates left in either party.

If Mr. Obama is to build support, he must get out of Washington and take his case directly to the American people, said Leslie H. Gelb, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations. But, he said, the president cannot make that case in the intellectual way that he has in the past.

?The only chance he has of restoring his power is by going to the country,? Mr. Gelb said. ?He can rally the majority around common sense. And he can?t do it in the way he has in the past.?

It is no surprise that the two sides still seem dug in: both are figuring out strategy for the remainder of Mr. Obama?s first term as they head into the 2012 presidential campaign. Mr. Griffin said the shape of the legislative debate would become much clearer next year, when Mr. Obama outlines his budget ? a blueprint for his agenda ? and Republicans counter with theirs.

?The president will propose his budget; it will be dead on arrival if history is any predictor, and at some point there will be a debate about what is the world view of the Republicans and what is the world view of the Democrats,? Mr. Griffin said. ?This is a movie; it?s not a one-act play.?

The Democrats? decision to retain their Congressional leaders does not make it any easier for Mr. Obama. In 1994, Mr. Clinton faced a new crop of Republican and Democratic leaders, which made it easier for him to rebrand himself as willing to cast aside party allegiances. But Mr. Obama has already thrown his lot in with Ms. Pelosi and the Democratic leader in the Senate, Harry Reid.

And in another sign of how little the dynamic has changed, Republicans are reminding the White House of a tart exchange between Mr. Obama and Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, the Republican whip, from early in the administration. The two had clashed over the stimulus package, and Mr. Obama noted that elections have consequences and that he had won. Trent Lott, the former Senate Republican leader, said Republicans feel much the same way now.

?There was an election; they won,? Mr. Lott said of the Republicans, ?and they do expect a little more attention, a little more consideration.?

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How Brain Imaging Could Help Predict Alzheimer's

Developing drugs that effectively slow the course of Alzheimer's disease has been notoriously difficult. Scientists and drug developers believe that a large part of the problem is that they are testing these drugs too late in the progression of the disease, when significant damage to the brain makes intervention much more difficult.

"Drugs like Lilly's gamma secretase inhibitor failed because they were tested in the wrong group of patients," says Sangram Sisodia, director of the Center for Molecular Neurobiology at the University of Chicago. People in the mid or late stages of the disease "are too far gone, there is nothing you can do."

New brain imaging research may help solve that problem. Two studies presented at the Society for Neuroscience conference in San Diego this week identified changes in the brains of people who would go on to develop the disease. Researchers ultimately hope to use these changes to select patients for clinical tests of new drugs before they have developed signs of dementia.

"Brain changes that predict progression will hopefully allow us to detect the disease early, before it has caused irreversible damage," said Sarah Madsen, a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles, at a press briefing at the conference.

Recent research has focused on people with a condition known as mild cognitive impairment, which involves memory loss and other cognitive problems and can be a precursor to Alzheimer's. However, not everyone with this disorder will go on to develop the disease. A reliable method of predicting who will develop Alzheimer's would enable drug developers to focus their clinical testing. By testing drugs only in this carefully selected group, drug makers could more easily see the potential benefit of an experimental drug. It would also help them to avoid unnecessarily subjecting people to health risks.

Sarah George, a graduate student at Rush University Medical Center, in Chicago, analyzed brain scans of 47 people with mild cognitive impairment, 22 of whom went on to develop Alzheimer's over the next six years. She focused on a part of the brain called the substantia innominata, which is known to be severely affected in Alzheimer's. Existing drugs for treating the disorder target a chemical messenger, acetylcholine, made by neurons in this part of the brain.

While George didn't find differences in the volume of the substantia innominata between the two groups, she did find differences in the parts of the brain that those neurons connect to. People who went on to develop the disease had significant thinning in three connected areas of the cortex involved in memory, attention, and integration of sensor and motor information.

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White House Memo: An Electoral Upheaval, but Few Signs of Change

The Thursday meeting is now off ? pushed back to Nov. 30 after the Republicans complained that the White House had not consulted them about their schedule ? and the arms treaty, which faces stiff Republican opposition, is in jeopardy. Two weeks after a midterm election that both sides interpreted as a mandate to change the way Washington does business, little, it seems, has changed.

Just how little was underscored on Wednesday when the two parties finished electing their leaders for the new Congress ? the very same people, including Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, who will go from speaker to the House minority leader, who have spent the past two years at one another?s throats.

For Mr. Obama, who has promised ?midcourse corrections,? the developments are a stark reminder of just how difficult it will be to change the dynamic in Washington. While he was in Asia, top aides back in Washington sketched out their postelection agenda ? and came up with a relatively narrow list of items that might win Republican cooperation, including revamping President George W. Bush?s landmark education bill and extending certain business tax credits. The White House also sees an opportunity to work with Republicans to cut the pet projects known as earmarks. Dan Pfeiffer, Mr. Obama?s communications director, described the White House as ?hopeful but not naïve.?

But other Democrats say the president must come up with an aggressive strategy to put himself back in the driver?s seat. If he cannot pass legislation, they say, he must use his executive authority and the force of his office to advance his agenda in ways that do not require Republican cooperation. The Center for American Progress, a research group with close ties to the administration, put out a report this week called ?The Power of the President? that sought to identify areas where Mr. Obama can bypass Congress.

The report suggests that Mr. Obama can act on a host of domestic and foreign issues, like conserving federal lands, carrying out the Small Business Jobs Act, promoting mediation for homeowners seeking to avoid foreclosure and appointing a special envoy for the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, who could work with Yemen?s government on the terrorism threat there.

?He needs to rise above the definition of the presidency as just being a skirmish between Republicans and you,? said John D. Podesta, the president of the Center for American Progress and a former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton. ?If he spends two years in the scrum with these guys, that?s what they want. He?s capable of doing things on his own without them.?

The White House has given no sign of any major postelection reorganization or personnel shakeup, and Mr. Obama?s aides have not tipped their hand about how they might address issues, like reducing the deficit or overhauling the tax code, that could offer opportunities for bipartisan compromise.

As president, Mr. Clinton reached deals on the budget, welfare and other issues with the Republican majority that swept Congress in 1994. But if Mr. Clinton?s experience is any guide, it will take Mr. Obama time to find his footing.

Mr. Clinton fumbled for months while the new speaker, Newt Gingrich, captured the public imagination with his 100-day agenda. It was not until the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City in April 1995, Mr. Clinton?s former aides say, that he was able above to rise above the partisan fray with a speech challenging the notion that government was a problem.

?That was big turning point for him,? said Pat Griffin, Mr. Clinton?s director of legislative affairs at the time. ?We built it as something that was bigger than this bad fight.?

Building legislative and political coalitions will be tricky in the current environment. The Tea Party movement is pulling Republicans to the right and warning against compromise. The remaining House Democrats are predominantly liberal and are pushing Mr. Obama to the left. There are few moderates left in either party.

If Mr. Obama is to build support, he must get out of Washington and take his case directly to the American people, said Leslie H. Gelb, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations. But, he said, the president cannot make that case in the intellectual way that he has in the past.

?The only chance he has of restoring his power is by going to the country,? Mr. Gelb said. ?He can rally the majority around common sense. And he can?t do it in the way he has in the past.?

It is no surprise that the two sides still seem dug in: both are figuring out strategy for the remainder of Mr. Obama?s first term as they head into the 2012 presidential campaign. Mr. Griffin said the shape of the legislative debate would become much clearer next year, when Mr. Obama outlines his budget ? a blueprint for his agenda ? and Republicans counter with theirs.

?The president will propose his budget; it will be dead on arrival if history is any predictor, and at some point there will be a debate about what is the world view of the Republicans and what is the world view of the Democrats,? Mr. Griffin said. ?This is a movie; it?s not a one-act play.?

The Democrats? decision to retain their Congressional leaders does not make it any easier for Mr. Obama. In 1994, Mr. Clinton faced a new crop of Republican and Democratic leaders, which made it easier for him to rebrand himself as willing to cast aside party allegiances. But Mr. Obama has already thrown his lot in with Ms. Pelosi and the Democratic leader in the Senate, Harry Reid.

And in another sign of how little the dynamic has changed, Republicans are reminding the White House of a tart exchange between Mr. Obama and Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, the Republican whip, from early in the administration. The two had clashed over the stimulus package, and Mr. Obama noted that elections have consequences and that he had won. Trent Lott, the former Senate Republican leader, said Republicans feel much the same way now.

?There was an election; they won,? Mr. Lott said of the Republicans, ?and they do expect a little more attention, a little more consideration.?

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Who Cares What Everyone Else Thinks?

Few products today launch without a social media strategy?a way of creating online buzz around whatever's being sold. The widespread belief is that people influence other people to buy products. A new study from MIT researchers, to be published in PloS One, suggests that this influence has its limits.

"We don't know what we mean when we say 'social influence,' " says Coco Krumme, one of the researchers involved with the work. She suggests that it's important to get a more specific idea of what kinds of social cues actually affect others' behavior.

By studying a body of information about music-downloading behavior, Krumme and colleagues Galen Pickard and Manuel Cebrian found that social cues could influence people to listen to samples of songs, but not necessarily to download them. They also suggested that the influence of social factors on a song's popularity diminishes over time, meaning that songs that rise to the top of download lists do that because they're better than ones that don't.

The researchers worked with a body of data from the MusicLab, a study several years ago that examined how social cues influenced the popularity of songs. In the MusicLab study, about 14,000 people were presented with 48 songs. They could sample the tracks, and if they liked the music, they could take the additional step of downloading them. The original researchers divided the people into groups and experimented with different ways of giving people information about what others were doing with the same songs.

Which songs became most popular varied a great deal, depending on the social interactions around them, explains Matthew Salganik, an assistant professor in the department of sociology at Princeton University, who was involved with the original study. Salganik says that luck played an enormous role in the success of songs. Those that became popular right away had a huge advantage over the others, and the social factors in the study tended to make the rich (the most popular tracks) get richer.

Salganik believes that people look to others for cues because of the overload of choices available. "You could listen to music nonstop for the rest of your life without getting through it all," he says. "The simplest shortcut is to listen to what other people are listening to."

But the MIT group took another look at the MusicLab's data and tried to explain more specifically how people were influenced. They found that social cues did increase the probability that someone would give a song a chance. However, the main factor in whether someone downloaded a song was whether the person had listened to it. A social recommendation didn't increase the chance that a person would give the song deeper attention. In other words, a social recommendation could make you try something. But once you try it, you aren't any more likely to buy it than if you had originally tried it on your own, without a recommendation.

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