It came to our attention last month that because of some changes that Twitter had implemented in the way that it allows third party applications to integrate with the service, a number of webOS Twitter clients - most notably Pivotal Lab's Tweed - began to experience issues relating to the upload of media.  After a few weeks of broken functionality, there's good news for those Tweed users who haven't been able to upload anything: the latest update to 1.20, which is now live in the App Catalog, fixes those issues that prevented the uploading media.

Source: Pivotal Labs

Twitter’s been in a state of near constant flux nowadays, with changes coming one after another, and mostly for the better. One of those for-the-better changes was the addition of OAuth log-in authentication that requires a Twitter user to authorize specific applications to use their accounts, and works through Twitter instead of the client.

For Tweed, that’s posed a slight problem, as with Twitter OAuth they no longer keep the user’s password logged on the device. Normally that wouldn’t be a problem, except that as OAuth has moved towards mandatory usage, Tweed’s integration with media upload services like yFrog and TwitVid was broken in the process.

Realizing the error of their not-completely-updated ways, the folks at Pivotal Labs (the people behind Tweed) are finishing up an update to Tweed that will bring OAuth log-in to all of the app as well as fix some other bugs that were introduced with version 1.8.

Source: Pivotal Labs

Tweed 1.5 will come with a number of other changes and fixes, including updates to the Load More feature, external links, and notifications. Additionally, the price of Tweed is going to be temporarily cut from $2.99 to $0.99. This is due to problems with the free version (Tweed Trial), on which development was stopped with version 0.9.16. Changes made with webOS 1.4 rendered Tweed Trial inoperative, so Pivotal Labs is going to withdraw the app and will temporarily reduce the price of the full Tweed to $0.99 to allow for an easy upgrade path for Tweed Trial users.

Thanks to Bassam and miles4000 for the tips!

There's more video being officially released by Sprint of it's 2009 Open Developers Conference.  We've already seen a video of Rick Boatright from the webOS Internals group presenting on the second day of the event, and now the entirety of Palm's presentation on the first day is available online.  A word of caution: the following is likely to put some to sleep, but I don't think that I'm alone in thinking that it's pretty damn cool to see some of the core people from Palm its webOS development team really drill down into what makes their product tick.

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Many developers are hoping to leverage Palm’s webOS App Catalog for financial gain much like has been done on the iPhone App Store. With a significantly smaller install base than the iPhone, webOS developers do have a bit of ways to go to catch up with their iPhone brethren. But let it not be said that it is impossible to make money in the App Catalog.

We at PreCentral were curious how much money has been made from the App Catalog. The App Catalog does not automatically display download counts, even though the information is still available. Thankfully, the folks at WebOS Internals whipped up a patch that makes those numbers visible, and they are telling.

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New:

• Mediafly Mobile Video+Audio, Free, by Mediafly, Inc: Access the entire library of video and audio recordings hosted on Mediafly.
• Tweed, $1.99, by Pivotal Labs: Version 1.0.0 brings direct photo uploads, enhanced notifications, and much more to your Twitter experience.
• TWiT by Mediafly, Free, by TWiT LLC and Mediafly, Inc: Watch all of the TWiT.tv netcast network right from your webOS phone.
• Yell.com, Free, by Yell.com: Pull down comprehensive business Yellow Pages for the UK.

With more than 190,000 downloads, it is safe to say that Tweed has a fair number of users, which as you can imagine could put quite the toll on creator Pivotal Labs. Though Pivotal created Tweed as an experiment to orient themselves with webOS, it has quickly become a Pre user favorite (and this blogger’s own primary Twitter client). After some discussion, Pivotal has decided that version 1.0 of Tweed will be a paid app in Palm’s updated ecommerce-enabled App Catalog.

To justify charging for what was once free, several new features will be added to Tweed 1.0. Photo uploading will be enhanced and will no longer rely on the email workaround they’ve used in the past. Twitter photo clients will also be expanded, with your choices now including TwitPic, TwitGoo, TweetPhoto, yFrog, and Posterous. Tweed’s dashboard notifications have been reworked to be more useful, you’ll now be able to view more info on user profiles (such as larger pictures), send photos in direct messages, and more.

Users who have downloaded the current free version of Tweed (0.9.16) will be able to keep right on using it without any worry. Once the paid apps Catalog is available, the new version will be available for download and will install as a whole new application due to the upgraded App Catalog’s structuring. This unfortunately means that your settings will not be transferred from your older installation.

Tweed will be priced at $3.99, but in celebration of the revamped App Catalog’s launch (and to ease the weight of the transition on your wallet), Pivotal has decided that for the first few weeks they’ll only be charging $1.99 for the new version of Tweed. And if you’re worried that you’ll be forking over cash for what you see as only a few upgrades, take heart that Pivotal has several new features in the works for future versions of Tweed, including theme support, landscape mode, and Flickr uploads.