Hey all you foursquare for BlackBerry users out there, the app has just been updated to v3.5.1! There are several bug fixes in this update so if you weren't happy with the last update you can install this and hopefully have a better experience when checking in.

Fixes included are:

• Fix to venue screen "switch focus" issue when transitioning from partial to full load of the venue and it's details.
• Fix to list/delete specific to user adding and quickly deleting a list.
• Update to list items styling so the background is consistently light grey rather than white.
• Improved performance on friend management screen when there exists 100+ friend requests.
• Fix scroll issue with venue history list.
• And lots more quick fixes

You can find the update in BlackBerry App World at the link below. If it's not showing for you yet, you can try refreshing your list of apps (hold Alt and press R,S,T) or just check back later.

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Sometimes it seems like developers just don't listen to consumers, but every once in a while one steps up and reminds us that not only are they listening, but that they actually care about what's being said. Just yesterday Adam told us about ProInsights, an app developed for the BlackBerry PlayBook by XLabz Technologies to transform your LinkedIn account into something you will actually want to use. Combining beautiful visuals and lots of neat innovation, ProInsights had all the elements of a winner. All the elements except however, the price. The developers set the price at $9.99, and were met with a lot of feedback regarding that pricepoint. I think most people are turned off of an app, no matter how beautifully built, that starts out that high without at least a free trial so potential buyers can get a feel for it.

XLabz took all the feedback and decided to put ProInsights on sale this weekend for half off, bringing the cost down to $4.99. The price will return to normal on Monday, so if you're interested in this one but were put off by the price, grab it now while it's on sale.

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ProInsights for the BlackBerry PlayBook is a pretty awesome way to view your LinkedIn profile. The app is beautiful from front to back and really shows off the power of the BlackBerry platform. ProInsights makes your LinkedIn profile fun to look at (no, really) as it shows off the various views in the Connection Explorer.

• Card Deck: Has the look and feel of a rolodex. Flip through a business-card view of your connections.
• Mosaic: Take a trip down memory lane and leaf through a photo-album of your connections
  Bird Eye: Get a bird's eye view on your connections plotted geographically on a map. You might just discover that you have a contact in Uganda you had added ages back!
• Spring Graph: Gives you a closer look at your Inner Circle. View your contacts in node clusters that link to you by the number of connections that they have. Move your connections around in this highly interactive spring-like view!

While ProInsights will run you $9.99, if you're at all a LinkedIn user it really is amazing to use this app. As the app description states: ProInsights is a powerful application that "reads between the lines" of your LinkedIn profile, churns out meaningful insights and presents them through stunning visuals. While I do wish it was a bit cheaper, fans of LinkedIn will love it to pieces. Check out more at the link below or keep reading for more screenshots.

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If you’ve read any of my articles regarding the BlackBerry PIN, you may have noticed that my views on privacy are slowly being swayed towards being more open with sharing my PIN. The other day, Kevin introduced you to a new application/social network known as PinShare; where, as you would probably guess, share your PIN with potential connections. Before doing so, you can view their image, read their brief bio and finally connect with them via BlackBerry Messenger. You send off a message, up to 100 characters, and it shows up in the recipient’s message inbox. A home screen notification icon is also generated. You can then choose to connect with them over BBM or not.

Essentially, it’s another database of BlackBerry smartphone users looking to share their PIN, yet, at the same time, it’s not. It’s a smooth rolodex of social users looking for a variety of things, but most importantly a decent conversation. Now I did notice that my BlackBerry Bold 9900 would start to lag from time to time while running PinShare; perhaps an indication that it was retrieving a large amount profiles that were just created? Just keep in mind that you’ll be receiving messages from people that may not want to, be the same can be said if you were to post your PIN in a forum. Once you trudge through the unwanted messages (which in reality come in rather infrequently) you may find a select few worthy of your BBM. Check out the video for a quick walkthrough as well as how to set up your own profile. You can grab PinShare for free from BlackBerry App World. Screenshots can be found after the jump.

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It's not you, it's me. No, really, it's not necessarily your fault I won't add you to BBM. Ever since I got my first BlackBerry, a Curve 8320, I've not been keen on adding anyone and everyone to my BlackBerry Messenger list. The few times I did add someone random didn't go well and I quickly decided that this portion of my BlackBerry life was going to be contained to people I talk to regularly, or have a specific need to have on my contact list.

When the BlackBerry Messenger social platform was announced, I was curious how all of these BBM integrated apps would fit into my personal philosophy. Foursquare, games… no problem. I was comfortable with the amount of information shared with my contacts. Then along came BBM Music.

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The movie Bruce Almighty was on TV recently; a 2003 comedy where a frustrated field reporter was lent the powers of the big G for a week. During the film, Bruce used his newfound powers to become “Mr. Exclusive” – being the first, and the only, reporter on the scene at major news that he himself created. Putting aside the divine powers, it can be argued that almost anyone can become a Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms Exclusive – with the right tools of course.

The way we access the news is continually changing as mobile technology advances. I don’t know how many times I would catch the news on an application such as Viigo long before I would be able to sit down in front of the six o’clock news. Do you even venture to the newspaper stand to pay for a paper anymore? Why would you when you can read it online for free? The news has come and gone long before the paper hits the stands – the term “hot off the presses” no longer applies. Terms like “trends” and “feeds” have easily replaced it as they better reflect that instantaneous access we have. If you have a smartphone (or dumbphone for that matter) in hand, and you’re on the scene, you could potentially become a mobile reporter.

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GetGlue is a social networking site that lets you check-in, rate, review, and share info on your favorite movies, TV shows, music, and topics. You are awarded stickers for certain check-ins, that are displayed virtually on your GetGlue homepage. Each month, you can request that your stickers be sent (20 per month, subject to availability) to you, free of charge. As I have said before, this may seem cheesey, but free is free, and I get nothing from other sites like Facebook or Twitter.

The app has been in beta for a little over a month, but is now quite polished, and the few bugs that the app had are now gone. If you haven't tried it yet, you should definitely give GetGlue a look. You can download GetGlue at BlackBerry App World, free of charge and available for most BlackBerry devices. More screencaps after the break.

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Good news for you Foursquare users out there. Foursquare for BlackBerry was just updated, now supporting photos. You are now able to check-in to a venue and add a photo, as well as submit a photo to the venue you are checking in to. They also announced that they will be adding the ability to comment on check-ins via BlackBerry. This feature should be available within the next week or so. Thanks @MrCippy !!

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One of the applications that I have been praying to hit the BlackBerry platform has finally reached beta. If you haven't used GetGlue before, it is the leading social network for entertainment, now with close to 1 million users. With GetGlue you can check-in to your favorite TV shows, movies, music, games, and more. You can also review, comment, and share your thoughts on these topics with Facebook and Twitter, with one click. Your reward? Stickers, stickers, stickers. You get these stickers the more times you check-in and rate the media you love. And as you can see from the picture above, they even send actual stickers for your achievments to you. Might seem kind of lame, but I haven't received anything for free from Twitter or Facebook.

The beta seems very stable, and I have yet to encounter any errors or bugs. No word on device compatibility, but it seems to be working on a variety of devices. If you don't get the invite right away, you can also use their extremely fast loading mobile site. Hit the break for screenshots from the GetGlue for BlackBerry app.

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Research In Motion has been in overdrive lately with their marketing. They've taken over our TV's with BlackBerry Messenger commercials, web pages are now flooded with ads promoting BlackBerry Messenger and the BlackBerry Twitter team has been utilizing the social network to their advantage. The above pic is that of a tweet sent from the @BlackBerry account, promoting the usage of the hashtag #BB6iscoming. A quick look on Twitter search shows that it certainly has been making its way across Twitter. The only thing we'd like to see is a full list of what devices will be supporting BlackBerry 6. What do you guys think, a list would be nice eh? Can we make that happen @BlackBerry? Maybe I should Tweet them and ask nicely. ;)

Review of Foursquare application for BlackBerry Smartphones

It's a Friday night, you're out and about, you're at some swanky restaurant, or grabbing some drinks at a bar, or you're shopping at the mall. You want to know if you're other friends are around so you can meet up, what do you do? Well, you take out your BlackBerry and load FourSquare, check-in and see who else is around.

So what's FourSquare all about? It seems to be an app that lots of people have been talking about lately. It's a location based app that allows you to check-in to businesses, restaurants, shops, and places of interests. It's also a great way to find out where your friends are, see the places they've been and check those places out too. As well as that, while checking-in to different venues you collect points and badges depending on how often you check-in. The more check-ins in one day there more points you'll get. After your first check-in you get your Newbie badge, check-in at ten venues gets you an adventurer badge, twenty-five check-ins earns you the Explorer badge, there's even a Local badge if you've checked-in at a venue three or more times in a week. There are a whole host of other badges to unlock which I won't know of until I unlock myself. If you regularly check-in at one venue then you can gain the Mayorship of that venue which means that you're the person that has checked-in the most at the particularly venue. But you can also be ousted as Mayor if someone else then checks-in more than you. There are some people who do guard their Mayorship closely and will try to maintain this Mayorship and it's also something that makes FourSquare fun to use.

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Review of SocialScope for BlackBerry Smartphones

With a tagline like "a mobile inbox for your social networks", and stats reporting that users find it "more important than the Inbox, Brick Breaker, and the Browser", it's no wonder that from those who have been graciously allowed into the over-extended private beta, I've heard mostly love stories for SocialScope.

I'll admit that the multitude of not-yet-privy-to-the-beta users often look at me like I'm crazy, and maybe they're right. I mean, there is nearly zero support for this app. You can attempt to send SocialScope a suggestion email and debug file from the Settings menu, but that typically generates an auto-response saying, "Thanks for taking the time to send feedback, we really appreciate it ... but don't expect to hear back from us." Try to engage them via Twitter, and it's most likely to lead to nowhere. There is a Tumblr blog ... but you won't find consistent post, only a developer's response to all the backlash.

Despite the negativity, I still tell anyone who asks that this is simply one of the best BlackBerry apps I've ever used, mainly because of the social media integration. It is a large part of what fuels why the device rarely leaves my hand. (I don't plan to turn this into "My top apps for accessing Twitter from your BlackBerry", I will say that my consistent second and third choices are UberTwitter and the official RIM Twitter App.)

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Review of RIM's Twitter for BlackBerry Application

*Please note: This review was conducted prior to yesterday's "official" release of version 1.0.0.45. The judges have kept that in mind when providing feedback and you should too in terms of judging the reviewer.*

If you're on twitter you must have definitely needed to access it from the BlackBerry at some point, and most probably have been using some app for the same. The official Twitter for BlackBerry app got a lot of attention when it was announced and when they opened up the beta. Now that its finally out in the open , we can find out if it does live up to the expectations of a twitter addict.

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A Review of Facebook v1.7 for BlackBerry Smartphones

When you're sitting in front of your laptop or desktop, do you find that sometimes (and I mean most of the time) your attention migrates from your work to Facebook? If so, you're not alone, it happens to many of us. We all share one thing in common- we are addicted to Facebook. Don't worry though RIM has you covered; you can stay connected to Facebook wherever you go by using the Facebook v1.7.0.22 Application for Blackberry.

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One of the biggest trends lately has been foursquare. Part social network part game, foursquare has taken off as of late and many BlackBerry users are getting in on the action. While obvisouly not for everyone, foursquare can be loads of fun as you try to earn points, badges and mayorships and helps you keep up with your friends while you're out and about. The current app is still in beta and not totally perfect, but it does work very well and the foursquare team seems to be hacking away at some good updates. If you're a current forusquare player or just looking to get into the game, the free app is definitely worth checking out. Take a look at the video above for a walkthrough of the current features of the foursquare app for BlackBerry.

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