BBMNation
BBMNation is a social network that, like most BlackBerry social networks, uses PINs to connect users. Designed by a night club promoter named Steven Ojo and his partner Alex Trumpower, the site launched about a year ago. The site is incredibly bare bones, and has a graphical style reminiscent of web 1.0. On the bright side, its users seem to be attractive college students, possibly associated with Steven Ojo’s night club background.
You can register for BBMNation here.
Magmic Social
Magmic Social aims to connect its BlackBerry and mobile gamers with one another in order to create a better overall mobile gaming experience. The site does this by connecting users, creating high scores, developing personalized avatars and promoting a more interactive community.
Magmic Social is in my opinion, the most unique of all the BlackBerry social networks. The reason is that is focuses on the one aspect of BlackBerry that gets the least news coverage: games. I’m hard pressed to find a blog that focuses on BlackBerry games specifically, which is interesting considering it’s such an up-and-coming market.
Go see Magmic Social for yourself here.
BlackBerryUnderground
BBUnderground is a social network that has a comprehensive vision. The site is a social network that could be described as somewhere between Facebook and MySpace. BBU is seeking to capture the BlackBerry space and be a one-stop-shop for news, opinion, software, accessories and networking. Each member can add music, video’s, photo’s, blogs and discussions, as well as start events, and create and participate in the bbu forums. As a social network, I really commend the idea of being a resource for the community that has a monetization plan. Far too many social networks are lacking a business plan.
Check out BlackBerry Underground here.
BlackBerry Ave.
This site has a look and feel that is very similar to BBMNation. As a direct competitor with many of the other social networks for BlackBerry, this site uses file transfers to make it unique. The site allows users to upload 1000 MB of files to share with other BlackBerry users. This could meant that the site gets a good following of media freaks.
Find some friends on BlackBerry Ave here.
PinSwapMe
PinSwapMe has a lot of what you would expect in a BB social networking site. I would say it’s direct competitor in BBUnderground, in that it wants to be a one-stop-shop. I like that PinSwapMe provides a wide range of things to do on the site. It’s important for every social network to have a reason to visit on a daily basis.
Take a look at PinSwapMe here.
The Dateberry link doesn’t work. Is it currently hosted at another site?
It seems Dateberry has gone out of business. I now have an acronym: TET (tough economic times).
“On the bright side, it’s users”?
YOU should also attend to their college, as you do not know the difference between “it’s” and “its”.
@lol – Thanks for the correction. Glad my poor grammar could at least make for a witty diss.
I gave you a shout out earlier Kyle but it was in the twitter to @blackberrycool….thanks for including use in the top 10….have a great on
Andrew
CO http://blackberryunderground.com
oooops meant top 5 lol
Nice list!
pinswap is horrible! me and other friends who have joined have witnessed nothing but the “website director” harassing people.. bbmnation is a great site though, definitely recommend to everybody. the others i will definitely go ahead and check out! does anyone remember pinppl.com? it was such a simple conservative site. any way great post!
Blackberry Underground requires your PIN to register. No way am I giving my PIN out to a website. I don’t care what they say about only system admins can see it. Someone could call my provider and pretend they bought my bb and ask them to release my PIN or say the bb was lost and deactivate my bb.
I recently purchased a Blackberry and was completely overwhelmed at first. I found Berrytastic.com. Not only is there a social aspect to the site, but lot’s of support and interesting articles written by its members. They don’t require your pin to register. You can provide as much or as little information as you’d like.
Check out Pinwall http://getpinwall.com (OTA) its a native social app for blackberry. You can find people around the world.