RIM Running Internal Developer Hackathon This Month!
For years I have been saying that RIM needs to start encouraging their internal BlackBerry developers to create slick BlackBerry apps. I have heard some rumblings that RIM was making strides in this direction but this confirms it. RIM is throwing their FIRST internal 24 hour Hackathon on August 26th and 27th. They are letting…
Interview With RIM’s Mike Kirkup: A Must Read for BlackBerry Developers
While at the NYC BBM Hackathon I had a chance to sit down and talk with Mike Kirkup, RIM’s Senior Director of Global Developer Relations, to discuss many topics of interest to both new and long time BlackBerry developers. We have interviewed Mike many times in the past and it is always interesting especially with…
IM+ for PlayBook Stuck in App World Approval Limbo for 3+ Months
This is really starting to get a bit ridiculous. We have told you in the past that Shape Services IM+ has been waiting for approval in App World since June 2nd of this year. The last time we mentioned it the app had been waiting for approval for 2+ months and RIM finally responded that…
NYC BBM Hackathon Wrap-up – Developer Collaboration
With all the craziness surrounding the BlackBerry 7 device launches and the reviews for today we missed posting a wrap up for the BBM Hackathon last week. Day one was awesome and day two followed through with many of the devs showing off their work as a sort of skeleton app. What I was…
DevCon Americas 2011 Session Catalog Now Available – Lots of Goodies
RIM’s annual developer conference for North America is gearing up to be a doozie! They posted the sessions that will be available at the conference in San Francisco and there are loads of topics covered. They have some serious sessions on web and WebWorks development along with some interesting ones on the PlayBook Native SDK…
Foursquare Talks About Success of BlackBerry App & BBM Integration
Pete Nofelt from Foursquare made an appearance at the BBM Hackathon with some interesting data to share. BlackBerry is a huge part of Foursquare’s success and Pete was backing it up with numbers. Their implementation of the BBM Social Platform has been a HUGE hit and really skyrocketed their user engagement along with bringing…
Why Social & BBM SDK is So Important to RIM – Wordmole Getting BBM Treatment
At the Hackathon Tyler Lessard and the head of the BBM SDK initiative (didn’t catch his name) talked about why BBM is so important and why this BBM Social Platform is exciting for RIM. Tyler bases his reasoning on Ray Kurzweil and his “Law of Accelerating Returns” which boils down to proving exponential instead…
BBM Hackathon Devs Heading to NYC – Three BerryReview Contestants
BlackBerry Developers + BBM SDK + Caffeine = Awesome BBM powered apps. At least that is what we are looking forward to from the RIM BBM Hackathon event here in NYC this week. The Hackathon begins tomorrow morning and will task the 30 handpicked devs to create the best BBM SDK powered BlackBerry smartphone apps….