Back at BlackBerry DEVCON 2010 Research in Motion announced BBM Social Platform which will allow BlackBerry developers to integrate BlackBerry Messenger with their BlackBerry applications.  Today RIM took BBM Social into public beta.

With this beta release, developers have the ability to accomplish the following:

• access and update fields in the user’s profile such as status, avatar and personal message;
• create their own custom areas within the user’s profile for promoting recent application activity or storing trophies and achievements;
• initiate and embed chats with friends;
• initiate application-to-application background communication through BBM for sending and receiving application instructions, such as moves in a game or any other application state changes;
• initiate file transfers;
• the ability to share applications virally with friends in their contact list.

Head over to the BBM Social Platform site for more information…

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