pretty cool but the announcement i was looking for

not really that impressed.......u could put ur barcode on facebook without this "new" feature

I've tried from 3 different computers and 2 different browser windows, but the Facebook app doesn't seem to be functioning. #Lame #Fail

the fb app has soooo many errors lol.useless for now.

lol @ "at the moment the Facebook app seems to be having some troubles."

typical Facebook, eh?

BB is by far the best smartphone in the market!!! All the developers should realize of this and put ALL the apps of th iPhone on BB too!! This is great... !!!

More features that could have been done in windows 95! I hope we have more of these sweet features to look forward to in RIM's OS "6.0".

i could just beg of these people not to post this crap til the site is actually functional.

and this confirms most suspicions from yesterday....the new things coming have nothing to do with getting new things on our BBM, but utilizing what we already have in different ways, such as the barcode.

the facebook barcode generator is 'generating' a blank facebook page because its not loading!! issues me think??

Ok but why so excited?

What's with the colours? "Personalize" or more of "choose our options and like it". We could've done this normally WITHOUT another app on our pages - this isn't what we're looking for! Besides, where' the "RIM BLUE" in all these lovely colour combos? ... FAIL...

While this seems kind of lame, I like that they're trying to spread BBM barcode awareness. Most people know nothing about it.

even more frustrating is new BBs still coming with 4.x versions of BBM. I've convinced a lot of people to switch to BBs. When showing them how to use it and set it up and how cool BBM is, I have to upgrade them so I can show them how the barcodes work.

But, yeah, if more people know about and how to use the barcodes, it'd make the whole thing more purposeful.

THIS IS SIMPLY AMAZING. I LOVE THIS

it's seems it's not working for me with Chrome and I.Explorer

Tried Chrome and IE, just loads a blank facebook page.

LAME... I've been doing this via a Flickr link in the text box underneath my profile picture for awhile now.

Either on IE or via opera mini on BB Tour...

Not to sound stupid.. (even though i will lol)

I havent used the barcode feature yet, I watched the video on how to add a contact in BBM 5 - but mine does not have add contact in the menu!??

http://apps.facebook.com/bb_barcodegenerator/

doesnt work, get a blank page

Thats pretty cool

lame. i'm getting rather tired of rims "innovation"...

This would be pretty cool if it actually... you know, worked. 3 different browsers just load a blank page.

Maybe don't release something until you know it's going to work past the first 5 minutes?

I just thought about posting "IT WORKS NOW" to see how many people I could get to start frantically reloading the pages on all of their browsers (again) but I decided that would be mean.

I was interested to see what rim had planned until this annoucment. I hope they have better stuff in store because this really doesn't mean much in the long run, but with no upgrades required I'm doubting its anything most blackberry users haven't been doing them selves already.

How about getting the twitter app updated and out to the general public instead of wasting time on this? Or update the facebook app (for the phone) with more functions (facebook chat amongst other things). Is rim listening to the consumers?

Wow RIM you are truly innovative. no one is going to want an iphone or android device now!

How about updating their Facebook app first?

@gafly, I lol'd! :P

that the usefulness of the blackberry has plateaued. and i still have just a tour with no wifi or trackpad..... disrespected

Come on RIM, you're better than just this. I sure hope there's more to come.

But I know my daughter will enjoy this feature. Lol. When its working.

Would putting your barcode "out there" for everyone to see possbily put you in danger of getting spam just like putting an email out there for people to find?
Just a thought - last thing I need is a bunch of junk coming to my BBM.

Also, I agree with those who believe RIM is just trying to get this feature more mainstream, many people have no idea it's even available.

Big friggin' deal.
What's next? 5 new emoticons?

ummmmmmmm???yeah?????why the fuss?

hahaha @limegrass69.. i mean really.. how will this be different from a captureit of the bbm code screen? like ive been doin and just posting it? this seems like a thing for noobs to get excited about.. then again.. what wouldnt a noob be excited about..

I click on the link and I get a blank fb page....

Loll it doesn't even work on FB its a blank page!

Man people are always complaining! Talking about that it sucks and what's the point of such a small update. Big or small its improvement and improvement takes time. Non of you own a million dollar company of one of the best smartphones out there so calm dawn and shut up!. Blackberry is awesome and its improving more every day.

It's dead. Couldn't you always just save the barcode image and upload it anyway?

Hey RIM, how about save your time on this useless feature and consider improving the sorry @ss FB App?

crappy crap, crappy crap, crappy crap...oh almost forgot, CRAP!

Wow there is a lot of people on here that could make RIM so much smarter maybe they'll give you guys jobs!!.....Wah wah wwaaahhhh. I understand its not working just give it time. When this finally gets up an running yall will be running lol

you all know that theres a big thing going around where hackers are sending out an email to facebook users saying that their password needs to be reset..its in the form of an attachment that you open, if you open the attachment it downloads malware to your computer and it will steal all your info. McAfee is makin a big deal about it, so just look out.

It's working again!

I just did it.

I've been doing this manually in Photoshop for a while now. Nice feature RIM. Sike.

Simply said, you guys are missing the point. RIM is trying to spread awareness with this. Good for them! I like the newly re-designed NA website...looks like they're pushing toward marketing to teens/young adults, and the twenty-somethings. I like it. I am certain there is more to come...this is just one small step. As many have said, most people don't even know BBM 5.0 exists, let alone the barcode feature. They needed to do something to spread awareness. Most people I talk to won't touch a BB because it is so "complicated" to them...RIM knows they have this stigma to certain demographics, and is clearly trying to change this. I like it...thumbs up.

the app page is up and running now

Can any of you whiners point to the press release where RIM stated "This is the only thing we're doing!"? There is already a large group of people that share their PINs and BB just made it a bit easier. Just because something isn't for you don't assume it's worthless. Waaahhhhhhhh.

go into your facebook settings to allow the application

so I just did this, and went to scan my own barcode on the screen I don't know if putting the blackberry close to the computer or it was scanning the barcode, but as soon as it beeped as registering the scan, all the colors on my screens got all messed up and I'm in the process of battery pull to see if it fixes it.

Very odd and has never happened before

*Update* After battery pull all is well, scared the living you kno what outta me though I fried the screen. I wonder what caused it?

I did this and added it to my facebook profile but the barcode is so small no blackberrys are able to scan it ... Its stupid

I agree - the barcodes are so small you can't even scan them from a BB - FAIL!!

The barcode is WAY too small. Even if I use the zoom on my laptop, it blurs it too much my 9700 STILL can't get it. Yikes.

I must say that I think that the feature is a cool idea. Okay it's not mind blowing but it's still a nice little thing to add.

Worked for me!

Maybe it's just me, but why would you want your BB Pin/Barcode out there for anyone to see? I don't know if anyone can do anything mischievous with that info, but if I want someone's BB Pin, chances are they're in my Contacts list. Just text them and ask for it (or heaven forbid we call someone and spend a few minutes catching up). And no, I'm not old. lol

Why would they not add the newer BlackBerry models in the list of devices? I had to settle for a Storm1. Not a big deal...just like this app.

too much. It worked for me and I can scan it too.

i am one of those people who loves my bb but knew nothing about the barcode, or even what it does. i think it's kinda cool, and worked fine for me.
i have also had fb problems with bb, but they work themselves out eventually. i love coming here everyday to find all the cool stuff my baby can do, it's amazing. i think maybe people get a bit too uptight about things... LOL

Total CRAP. BB Code can't be scanned from the computer screen by Bold 9000.
Can't we just post a CODE itself and not sized down in phone picture?

scan a barcode with the bb? i have never done this and have no clue. can anyone help? thanks. : )

I just realized that BBM generates a different barcode every time you hit 'display my barcode.' That's weird.

It worked for me, though it took a bit of work to get the barcode to scan.

I agree, remove the pic of the phone and make the barcode larger.

I think its a decent idea. Certainly not ground breaking or going to win customers over from other platforms. The barcode concept is a good one, I know many people who are not crackberry users but plain old blackberry users and have never heard of the PIN.

Switching to frickin Android. Ok maybe not but the thought is starting to cross my mind.

This announcement is lame.

Do something special, do something amazing, do something that says here we are now SUCK IT!.

This was not it.

An for god sakes don't wait for one of your "look at us pow wow" sessions to do it.

Just uploaded my image to a album, even the picture's thumbnail scanned easier than the pic provided by the app

Funny how when you add the barcode to your profile it's actually too small to scan. (depending upon the resolution of your monitor of course)

I could scan it without a hitch :) ..my res is standard 1280x800 .....

i think ill open my facebook app and try to write on a wall. by the time the app updates my contacts, percentage point by aching percentage point, perhaps RIM will have come out with something innovative.

Haven't tried the facebook yet, because I'm at work. All of a sudden, my bb said (via popup) it needs to reboot for "module installation" is this normal? If not could it be part of the bbm hype? Anyone else getting this message. Remember, I haven't done anything new to get this message. Just wondering..

it doesn't get much worse than this

my barcode doesn't even work!!! wt!

I tried to add the blackberry Barcode generator to the side of my facebook page and it shows my storm with half of the barcode. FAIL

The only phone that will display the barcode correctly is the tour.

I can generate the barcode but can't really do anything with it. It seems to glitchy at the moment. Maybe I'll give it another try in a few weeks.

RIM what to say
HALF-BAKED!

I had no problem using the barcode generator @FB. The only thing that hasn't worked thus far is - it did not email me a copy of the barcode I created. But there's still time... ATT may be having a problem today, too.

Peace...

Why would it matter if you can put your barcode on facebook? Once you pass 100 bbm contacts you cant update your status or pic....Well you can but all your contacts dont see it

i actually saw this on facebook and got it to work for me. seems pretty cool

Mine is working, but the picture it display is your BB "model" with the barcode in the screen, but the barcode is outside of the screen and isn't showing complete, so is not working with your BB photo.

But is you add it to a profile picture, u puts the barcode at right bottom of the picture, this works fine,

I'm having the same problem on my storm as others have reported. When I am setting up the facebook widget, my barcode displays only half of it because the image of the barcode is off-center and is too low. It's like the center of the barcode image is at the point of the bottom-right of the image of the phone if that makes any sense. I've tried it on both Chrome and Firefox, same results.

I agree the barcode pic on the image of the device is too small to scan, but I was able to scan the barcode added to my profile pic with no problem although I did notice it showed up on my BB with my facebook name.

Relax remember they said days and weeks to come so there is going to be a lot more to come

Relax remember they said days and weeks to come so there is going to be a lot more to come

I don`t think it works for all desktop resolutions, so it cuts off. They should have done more testing before releasing. This probably another reason why some people CAN scan and other`s can. I personally CANNOT scan the code (too small but that may be because of my resolution of 1680 x 1050). Hope they fix this.

i don't know if i'm doing it wrong but only half of my barcode shows up on my profile. or does that not matter?
guess i'll try adding it to my profile pic instead and see if that's better.

yeah so its useless, only half the pic shows up, and the one on you profile image is too small and blurry! waste of time...

Remember, it is from Blackberry, they cant do anything right the first time, or the second.... heh

What a joke. With all the things RIM NEEDS to be doing, this is how they spend their dev time???

It's shameful actually.

For those of us who may have at least two brain cells left that aren't fighting...a better alternative is to Google "barcode generator"...then you can make any image, text or URL into a barcode. Take it a step further and got to a site like faceinhole.com, and drop your new barcode into a sick scene from a movie or on to the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel or anything else they already have templated!!! I actually barcoded a pic of a nice rack and had it screen-printed on to the front of a friends tshirt! Dirty & Nerdy!

I'M TOTALLY BLOWN AWAY!

Wooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwweeeeeeeeeee!

/sarcasm

One thing I just realized while typing...this pointless POS feature got more advertising than the Storm 2...wow RIM, now I'm seriously blown away.

The only device I could get the barcode to show up in was the Tours.

For someone to scan a barcode to add someone to BBM they have to be in BBM with the invite by barcode option open. The other person can do two things. Access BBM to view barcode or access a saved photo of it to display their barcode. The person then scans it.

Other option is to be in BBM with invite by PIN option open. The other person could then press ALT+UPPERCASE+H to display their PIN and the person eneters it.

What takes longer? For the invitee to find the image of their barcode somewhere on their device and the other person scans it, or the inviter to type in a PIN after the invitee imediately pulls it up?

I would have to say typing the PIN in would be faster in most cases...

Barcode technology is great for viewing lots of other things but as far as adding a BBM contact there is no speed advantage, which is the premisis on which RIM is pushing this out on...

So i put this on my profile and the barcode is too small to scan. Anyone else having this problem. I picked the one with the barcode inside the phones screen.

For the next generation bbm, complete with automatic food processor.

The barcode only shows correctly on the tour. Fail.

Nice. Just a bunch o whinin'. Maybe this is the first of a whole number of things to come...?

Man folks get some happiness in your lives. You're bringing me down.

I can get what RIM wanted to do here, and its a nice first step, but they didnt think it through. What I would have done is extend the ideal (the entire super app concept?). When viewing your barcode in BBM have a upload to facebook option right there in the menu. Its uploaded to the facebook application they created thats visible on your profile. If your in the facebook application on your BB you get a menu option when viewing a friends profile (that uses the facebook application) to view the barcode and add the user as a friend.

I downloaded and installed my BB Z-X on Facebook but the icon is so small my phone can't scan the damn thing, if I click on it instead of enlarging it, it redirects me to the generator page instead.Why the fuss about doing all of this then ????

I took a screenshot of my barcode, edited it to the perfect size and simply made it my profile picture and people started scanning. Who needs em'!

Well it appears to be working. However, it is a real pain to get the image to scan properly within bbm. Takes forever to focus on the image once it's displayed on the computer screen. I placed it in my profile to see how that works after the device selection (no storm 2?)!! You can click on the image in the profile to enlarge the barcode a bit. First attempt to scan the barcode locked my phone, had to do a battery pull to get up and running again.

For those of you who do not know. Open BBM, bb button, invite contact, scan persons barcode, and then line the phone up so it can focus on the barcode image. Once the camera gets a clear focus on the barcode it should automatically go the the next screen.

It didn't even format the barcode right... and if that was what the wait was for... they could have kept that until they had something nicer!

waaa waaaaa waaaaaa. i'm the last guy that should be able to figure this out, but i just followed the directions and it worked. i just scanned my own barcode and added myself to my contacts...... can i chat with myself now?

Could it be that RIM has the most incompetent management of a company of this size and nature? I think I've certainly seen some evidence of that.

Doesn't work for me either. Says click button below to add widget to page, but there is no button! AWESOME!

How Can I make the image of my BB model with my barcode appear on my page? I selected this feature and it hasn't shown up.

Thanks for sharing