If you’ve been following me on Twitter, you know that I’m in Montreal to get some BlackBerrys unlocked. The city is only 2 hours away from BBCool headquarters in Ottawa, so I took the bus to meet some unlocking companies I found online. The first company I went to was run by a guy called Chin and what seemed to be his cousins. The place was located on the 3rd floor of a nondescript building near some strip clubs.
It’s official, the BlackBerry App store is called BlackBerry App World. The site for developers will be updated tonight and should be live again by 10pm (Eastern Time). At the same time, they will launch a sign up page for users who want to be alerted when BlackBerry App World goes live.
To get updates, register here. REMEMBER, THIS LINK WON’T WORK UNTIL TONIGHT.
I don’t know why but for some reason the name reminds me of the McWorld ad campaign. I start to think about developers sitting around going:
“Sell my apps through RIM? Hey, it could happen. APP WORLD!”
I’ll send out more details as they come.
I’ve got a few questions for the community:
If you’re a developer, will you have your app sold in App World (shameless self-promotion opportunity!)?
If you’re a consumer, what would you like to see in App World?
This isn’t ground-breaking news or anything but you can update your instant messaging clients to version 2.1.42. There doesn’t seem to be any features added or any real reason to download the update.
If you notice something new with the updates, comment and let me know.
You may have seen Mark’s tweets over the past couple of days indicating that Viigo is coming out with some new gems for the Viigo hockey service. Well it’s official, the new features including comprehensive stats such as league points, goals, assists and shut out leaders, to name just a few, team rosters and player stats, team specific schedules and team specific scores and a few other nice to haves (including a feed for trade updates and an NHL Twitter mash up which should be cool on deadline day) are now available. Click through for screenshots and details about the Viigo update
I saw Simon wrote about the new Facebook app for BlackBerry, discovered by a BGR ninja. The new Facebook looks better but more importantly, it’s more BlackBerry friendly. The app works with your messages, calendar, and contacts, better than the old version. For example, Facebook is putting together a Phonebook app which gathered up all of your friends’ available phone numbers into one place, and once it’s out, the app will make sure your address book stays up to date. Expect calendars and notifications to be much more fluid as well.
We’ve been talking a lot about Vayyoo for a few reasons: we love their product and we’ve been playing Settlers of Catan with their director of marketing on a pretty regular basis.
vPost is an app that lets you capture and email any combination of Pictures, Video, Audio Notes, Text & GPS location using an extremely powerful and simple interface.
Once you capture any combination of media you can send it via email to friends, family, colleagues, blogs and social networks. Without vPost it can take over 5 minutes to compose an email with 2 pictures, an audio note, and GPS location. With vPost this task can be done in less than a minute with no hassles. You can try vPost today and start sending rich-media to anyone and everyone!
Use it for anything:
- File a life experience by emailing it to yourself
- Share moments with close friends while it’s happening (near real-time)
- Publish media to Facebook, Blogger, WordPress, Flickr, Picasa, etc. and share with you online communities
- Annotate pictures with a voice recording of what’s actually happened
- Send accidents, act’s heroism, & other newsworthy events in to news agencies (CNN, BBC, etc.)
-Update Twitter via services like posterous.com, pixelpipe.com, and utterli.com
- Send vPost voice & video messages to each other
- Send your friends your exact location in near real time.
Vayyoo has assured us a that a storm version will be available soon.
Vayyoo has setup a vPost website at www.getvpost.com where they have a FAQ, contact info, and links to their Twitter account.
Comment with what you think of the app!
We’ll be sending an email to some of the comments with free license keys.
