My Space & Blackberry Hookup

Blackberry and the social networking giant MySpace are to get involved and make an application for Blackberry smartphones which will allow users direct access to the MySpace website, it will also allow instant push based messaging. Facebooks social networking application has already been downloaded by over 1 million users and it is hoped that the new MySpace app will enjoy the same success.

Blackberry is also busy creating a MySpace profile so users can access news, videos, games, ringtones and other content for their handsets.

Jim Balsillie, Co-CEO at Research In Motion said: ‘BlackBerry smartphone users have unsurprisingly been quick to understand and lead mobile trends and we are seeing many of our customers strongly embrace mobile social networking as an integral part of their communications and day-to-day lives.’‘MySpace was one of the first social networking sites to get it right and we are thrilled to join forces to continue evolving and enhancing the mobile social networking experience for our mutual user base,’ he added

Nokia And Facebook In Cahoots!

The worlds largest mobile phone manufacturer and one of the worlds largest social networking sites, Facebook are in talks with eachother. Nokia already features it’s Ovi media sharing suite and the Reset Generation game on Facebook and it’s set to broaden it’s ties with the social networking giant.

Niklas Savander, the head of Nokia’s Internet services business, said the world’s largest handset maker was talking to many large social networking firms, including Facebook, to ease access to their sites from Nokia phones.

Nokia’s “Share on Ovi” media sharing service was opened as a Facebook application last month, and members of the network can also play Nokia’s “Reset Generation”, the world’s most expensive mobile game to develop, which links cellphone and PC gamers allowing them to play against each other.

“We obviously talk with a mass of companies and Facebook is one of them. Facebook is big in the U.S., it’s gaining traction in Europe, but it’s small in Asia,” Savander told Reuters in an interview.

It was published in January that Nokia were working with Facebook with the view of porting the site into thier mobile phones, perhaps we will see the facebook chat feature on Nokia mobiles in the coming months, only time will tell?

Vodafone UK Launch Facebook App

Vodafone have launched a facebook application which you can use to text your mates directly from facebook itself, without the need of your mobile phone. It will soon be able to send MMS messages from the same app, it will come with a complimentary 25 SMS credit initially and further credit can be purchased through pay4it.

The application allows users to send messages not only to their online Facebook friends but also to non-Facebook users and groups. Vodafone Connect to Friends can be used by anyone regardless of their choice of UK mobile operator.

Try it here http://apps.facebook.com/connecttofriends