eMobiStudio Blog – Boost Mobile Phones

At BlackBerry DEVCON 2010, Research In Motion (RIM) announced the BlackBerry® Messenger (BBM™) Social Platform. Now, the BlackBerry Messenger Social Platform has officially gone into public beta. With this beta release, Java Developers have the ability to accomplish the following:

• Access and update fields in the user’s profile such as status, avatar and personal message;
• Create their own custom areas within the user’s profile for promoting recent application activity or storing trophies and achievements;
• Initiate and embed chats with friends;
• Initiate application-to-application background communication through BBM for sending and receiving application instructions, such as moves in a game or any other application state changes;
• Initiate file transfers;
• The ability to share applications virally with friends in their contact list.

To get started with the BBM Social Platform beta and review all the features supported, head over to BlackBerry Developer Zone’s BBM Social Platform page.