The BlackBerry Cool staff made a resolution that 2009 would be a year of giving back to the BlackBerry community. So just because we’ve given away 2500+ free beta trials of the new BOLT browser in the past two days, don’t expect us to stop. Today we have BlackBerry Cool 15 presenter Ubiquitous Systems, with 200 closed beta invites for their SocialScope application. SocialScope is a social networking application that allows you interact with your Facebook and Twitter accounts at once. Interested? I thought so.
To sign up for the closed beta (I wouldn’t right now if you’re a BlackBerry Storm user), simply follow the link below and hope you’re one of the first 200 people (we’ll work SocialScope for more invites). If you missed out, worry not: our hands on impressions, a list of new feature additions (yep, SocialScope hooked us up with the newest build) and a gallery of screenshots are after the jump.
SIGN UP FOR THE SOCIALSCOPE CLOSED BETA
SocialScope Hands-on Impressions
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– I wouldn’t download SocialScope yet if you’re a BlackBerry Storm user, as support isn’t really built in for it yet. If you must, then make sure to turn off Compatibility Mode.
– The amount of things I can do with my Twitter account via SocialScope is great – retweet, favorite, it’s all there. Facebook is a little more limited (I have to log in to Facebook to look at photos?), but I believe that is a testament to how much more open the Twitter API is. That being said, I love that you can add Facebook friends directly to your BlackBerry Address Book.
– Being able to ‘Tab out’ your favorite friends or followers is an incredible feature, and makes sure you don’t miss the important stuff.
– SocialScope users now have the ability to set their refresh rate. I don’t know what the ‘auto’ setting is, but the lowest is 5 minutes, which doesn’t seem low enough to me.
– Being able to customize what you receive notifications for is great. You can choose between Twitter replies, DM’s, or all messages (good luck!).
– Adding photos or links, even while not in SocialScope, is bonus. Great, great feature.
SocialScope Feature List
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- SocialScope integrates your Twitter feed and Facebook updates into one application.
- A tabbed Interface so you never miss replies, direct messages or updates from specific contacts
- View all your social network status updates and picture updates in one place
- Address Book Integration allows you to save your contacts’ social network information and see there updates from the address book
- Support for standard BlackBerry shortcuts, r – reply, d – direct message, c – compose update, b – bottom, t – top, f – favorite
- Post updates directly from your Inbox
- Twitter search support with #topics highlighting throughout BlackBerry
- @username highlighting
- One click access to the “in reply to” messages
- BlackBerry spell checker support
- Tabbed Interface so you never miss replies, direct messages or updates from specific contacts
- A direct message interface that makes it easier to see conversations
- Post pictures via TwitPic from the camera or BlackBerry Media app
- URL Shrinking with bit.ly with the BlackBerry Browser integration
- NEW! Profile Notifications (Experimental) for each message type
- NEW! Refresh Rate Control (Experimental)
- NEW! ReTweet capability
- NEW! Added Follow/UnFollow
- NEW! Remembers posting preference
I am the first one ?
Got the invite allready thanks it is great !
so i got the email invite. pretty psyched because i’m curious to see a combined twitter & facebook client. just waiting for the download link. waiting…waiting..
I finally got the invite. I will blog my impressions shortly!
http://jasdever.blogspot.com/2009/01/finally-got-my-hands-on-socialscope.html
Got an acceptance letter… Just waiting on that key. Now if could get on the BOLT list…
i got my invite and authorization code. awesome…
overall, i think it’s a great application, with a lot of potential to be a really good combined twitter/facebook client (and others perhaps). at this point, i agree in that it does lean more towards titter. so i’m looking forward to eventual future updates from @socialscope.
i found it easy to use and very intuitive to navigate. as a storm user, support for the touchscreen would be awesome!
nice to be involved in the early stages and staying tuned…
Dang it I missed this one.
same here… hey SocialScope folks, any chance for some more invites? please??
I have sent a request for an invite since I first heard about this app I m yet to receive any response!!
pretty please with a cherry on top? if you are still out there know people like me are anxious to test your product out and then share the good news with the world.
thanks.
can’t blame a man for trying.
When will this be avail for STORM??? I was told it does not work on storm!!
do u have an extra invite left?
may i please have a social scope invite? i’ve been waiting for months now =(
Could someone throw an invite my way? kyle[at]kyledylanconner.com.
i am the same for waiting , been months , well really xpreciate for an invitation !
Social scope invite PLEASE lol, I been waiting till now it’s uber twitter time! But I wish to make do without a facebook app for berry!
Do you still have beta invites left to dole out? I would greatly appreciate the invite!!
I please have a social scope invite? chutzpah72 [at] gmail.com
Thanks
I would like to get an invite to use SocialScope on my Blackberry 8900.
ok there is a open free beta
http://www.socialscope.net/download/09524_0kkfunge/4.5.0/SocialScope.jad
@butterfly2 Thanks for link !
can i have the invitation for socialscope please?
Any chance of an invite at this late date?
Hi, can i have an invitation to socialscope? gabriel_mendes@hotmail.com, @gabrimen at Twitter…
Any chance for an invite?Please…
Would love to have a copy of this to download for my BB.
Can I have an invite? This looks like an amazing program and would love to use it.
I have been waiting so long for an invite. Can I please have one?
there has to be a nice person out there that wants to hook me up with an invite..i just got a blackberry and would like to add SS to my apps! Thanks! @jga565 at twitter =)
I would love too get Socialscope. Tweetgenius isnt free, Twitterberry is horrible and ubertwitter freezes my phone =0(
would love to get a copy of this
anybody? please? it’s my birthday!
Anymore invites left. I already have TweetGenius and like it. I would like to test socialscope to see which is the better product.
I would LOVE to get an invite to Social Scope…had my brand new BB Bold stolen yesterday and have been through alot trying to get another one. Now I finally got one today and would love some cool new apps.
Are there still invites available???
Just checking to see if the invites are still up
was hoping there were still invites left too.
Your invite code is: stos-becke
Any invites left? apparently ubertwitter is going to start charging a yearly fee for no adverts and wont let us use our old versions soon that does not have any of this on them.
please…please…send me the socialscope invitation…
Please send me the invitation code.. patria_ardian@hotmail.com thanks a lot!
Are there still invites available? please send me the socialscope invitation! Thank you
Any more invitations available? If so please send one myway! tactishianz[at]gmail.com
any more left? send me one pleasee so tired of using really bad applications for twitter and facebook!
Hi, there are an invite for me too?
My email is flavio.meazza@wind.blackberry.com
Thanks a lot