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		<title>foursquare and BBM: A Super App Meets the Social Platform (VIDEO)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 23:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Soltys</dc:creator>
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<p style="text-align:center;">(<a href="http://youtu.be/LBNVv1dUrZ4">YouTube link for easy mobile viewing</a>)</p>
<p>One of the highlights for me this week at BlackBerry® World™ 2011 was having the opportunity to showcase some of the amazing work from developers starting to leverage the <a href="http://us.blackberry.com/developers/blackberrymessenger/">BBM social platform</a>.  Social networking application <a href="http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/6921?lang=en">foursquare</a> is one such example, and was demoed during the Tuesday General Session keynote by Senior Director of Developer Relations (and fellow Inside BlackBerry blogger) Mike Kirkup.</p>
<p>The above video is really three videos in one! First, I speak with Mike about the overall opportunity available to developers that integrate BBM social platform APIs into their application. Then, foursquare developers Pete and Jeff provide a great demonstration of foursquare for BlackBerry integrated with BBM.  I then pass the mic to Mike for a brief sit down with Pete about developing for BlackBerry and how the coming BBM social platform integration enhances the foursquare <a href="http://us.blackberry.com/developers/started/super_apps.jsp?CPID=OTC-SUPERAPPS&amp;cp=OTC-SUPERAPPS">super app</a> experience.</p>
<p>Post a comment and let us know what you think of the integration of BBM with foursquare, and what other applications should leverage the BBM social platform.</p>
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