BBM Social Platform hits public beta

By on Mar 15, 2011 at 6:34 PM
mobile March 15, 2011

Research In Motion has just announced that BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) Social Platform is now available in public beta. First announced during BlackBerry DEVCON 2010, BBM Social Platform allows developers to integrate their applications directly with BBM using a set of new APIs, and RIM is banking on developers to make BBM a more robust application. RIM hopes programmers will create multimedia apps, location-based services, games, VoIP services, and more, that can build on the existing BBM experience. Here’s one possible use case: You start up a multiplayer game with a friend and smack talk with him or her inside the game over BBM. When you’re done, maybe you want to share that game with someone else, using features enabled in the BBM Social Platform, you’ll be able to share apps. It will even let developers create custom areas inside a BBM profile, which could be used for showing game achievements or other stats. Now let’s just hope these features carry over to BBM on Android and iPhone. 

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  • Anonymous

    “You start up a multiplayer game with a friend and smack talk with him or her inside the game over BBM. When you’re done, maybe you want to share that game with someone else, using features enabled in the BBM Social Platform, you’ll be able to share apps.”

    Yeah not gonna happen.

  • YoniFl

    how do i get it???

  • kbeesh82

    is BBM still relevant in 2011? Most friends/family members have moved on to greener pastures……..

    • Dale-Kurt Murray

      Despite the myriad of messenger platforms that exist across the leading mobile platforms, the BlackBerry Messenger following has been unwavering to say the least. I would even say it’s the fanboy mentality behind what makes an Apple product successful which can be said for the BBM.

      Then again the BBM tends to be even more popular outside of the United States, especially where the culture around the “app” has not taken precedence.

    • Uhh

      if 30 million users isn’t relevant than what is? the 3 million on KiK? gimme a break.

  • Mannors007

    In some markets BBM is a cult, its the primary reason why BlackBerry devices are chosen above competitors

  • YoniFl

    how do i get it on my android???

  • Anonymous

    . RIM didn’t say that it’s available across platform – they just said the tools are now available for BB app developers to use them in their BB apps…

    This seems to be a recurring theme in the comments at various sites carrying this release today…

  • Cdc

    Mmmm I want to smack talk during brickbreaker :/

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