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Don’t Expect Much Social Media From Me Today

My BlackBerry died again on Wednesday so while I await a real replacement I’m rocking this beat up BlackBerry 8700.  I tried adding a few apps to help with Social Networking, but the old gal’s not having any of it (and since I’ll be handing her back on Monday I’m not jumping through any hoops [...]

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Review: Twitter Application For BlackBerry

Twitter has joined the ranks of other social networks and social media sites like Facebook, Flickr, Foursquare and LinkedIn and now Twitter has an official BlackBerry application.  I’m pleased to say that despite the significant issues that I had with the beta version of this app that I had a couple weeks ago and Twitter’s [...]

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Review: LinkedIn for BlackBerry

Earlier this week, three months after their promised delivery date and a week after a third party developer launched their own BlackBerry application, LinkedIn, the dominant professional online social network, finally launched their first application for the BlackBerry, the dominant smartphone for businesses. In other words it was about damn time and LinkedIn seemed forced [...]

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Viigo Now Part Of Research In Motion (RIM)

Viigo, developers of my favorite news reader application for BlackBerry, announced today that Viigo has become a part of RIM. In a press release on their website they announced that Our team has joined RIM’s global organization and will continue to bring our expertise in BlackBerry® application development and real-time content delivery to the BlackBerry [...]

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Review: Social Business Communicator

I’ve written a lot about the lack of a LinkedIn application for the BlackBerry and specifically LinkedIn’s missed deadline for releasing the application.  I mean I’ve written a lot.  Maybe I’m obsessed.  Anyway it’s reached a state in the BlackBerry community that people are taking things into their own hands.  Jason Remillard (who is not [...]

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The Life Graph: You Are Your Location

The following is a liveblog of a panel discussion with Ryan Sarver,  Sam Altman, Tina q Unterlaender, Clara Shih and Steve Lee on geolocation, social networks, privacy and monitization.  The panel was excellent with great back and forth, insight into issues around geolocation and social networks and the future of this functionality.  The panel took [...]

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No LinkedIn BlackBerry App Launch for SXSW

It’s March 12, the first day of South by Southwest interactive when the social media digerati come together in Austin Texas and mobile sites and apps are launched or touched up with new features in order to take advantage of the opportunity.  But there is one social network who is bucking the trend and going [...]

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An Open Letter to ÜberTwitter and Seesmic

Last week I wrote about the ÜberTwitter and Seesmic Twitter applications for the BlackBerry and noted while Seesmic‘s integration with Ping.fm was a great leap forward, it was missing some convenient features that could make it difficult to stick with that app over ÜberTwitter. I haven’t come to a conclusion about that yet, but after [...]

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Review: WordPress for BlackBerry

WordPress is probably the dominant blogging platform used today as well as an acceptable content management system. One of the aspects of WordPress that has led to its broad use is that it is open source, the code is free and updated and extended by users so that not only is it an affordable option, [...]

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Nice Tips Foursquare

Forgot to mention this a couple weeks ago when the latest release of Foursquare for BlackBerry came out, but the application has added a tab in the top navigation for Tips.  The purpose of the screen is obvious enough, it’s a listing of tips for places near where you are and from each tip you [...]

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