Free Blackberry applications to social network
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010The Blackberry market is running at approximately 1million downloads every day and with so many apps to choose from it’s hard to know which are the best to use and what you can download and use for free.
We’ve brought together a short list of applications that can turn your Blackberry into a social networking machine.
1) Firstly, we have to go to Facebook – it’s the biggest social network site on the planet. And if recent reports are to be believed it’s aiming to get bigger than Google and become an integral part of everybody’s internet experience:
Facebook Blackberry Application
2) Next, there’s every marketing person’s favourite micro blogging service: Twitter. If you don’t know what Twitter is yet, then you have some catching up to do! Put simply, it’s a system that allows you to publish short comments and messages (up to 140 characters) about your day, life, interesting links or anything that takes your fancy. It’s one of those things that most people don’t think are useful until they try it for a day and find out what their favourite celebs are up to, get links from business peers and easily swap jokes with friends.
There are a few Twitter applications for the Blackberry and we have 5 featured on the site:
Twitter Blackberry Applications
One of the most popular: TwitterBerry has recently changed it’s name to OpenBeak, but it’s essentially the same application at the moment.
FourSquare
3) The latest big thing in social networking is location tagging and location aware social networks. It’s estimiated that by 2013 these networks will have a revenue of over $3billion. One of the biggest and certainly getting most attention at the moment is FourSquare, with lots of funding and a significant share of the market this looks like the location network to get involved with at the moment:
FourSquare Blackberry Application
So… what else? These are the three biggest and upcoming social networks around, especially for marketing and business use. But there is one more that is getting more and more inportant in the world of business: LinkedIn.
4) With LinkedIn you can set up a business profile for yourself and meet like minded business people, create contact lists and join groups to help you market your business or even find a job with some of the biggest companies in the world. It’s worth taking a look at what you can get out of LinkedIn, it’s not a social network for fun – it’s all about business!
LinkedIn Blackberry Application
This is by no means a definitive list but with these four applications you can get your social networking campaign off to a great start – and if you just want to talk to your friends and share photos these will work just as well for that too!
