It’s about time there’s a BlackBerry MySpace App

Posted by Carla | BlackBerry, myspace | Thursday 13 November 2008 2:47 pm

I have been waiting soooo long for there to be a MySpace Application for my BlackBerry whether it was third party or not.

This morning, while I was sleeping after having a rough night of being sick, I received an email from my friend Hannah on my BlackBerry with a link to download the OTA MySpace Application. Since I read it, kind of in my sleep, I thought it was a dream. Then when I got up for real, I remembered it and re-read my email and it was true! Yay! A MySpace App for my BB!

It is set up very much like the Facebook Application.

This is a screenshot from my ‘Berry of what someone’s profile would look like through the MySpace Application. It’s really simple and to the point. Easy to navigate.

Viewing someone’s photos is cake with being able to still view photos as an album rather than all of the pictures crammed onto one page.

The Home Screen allows you to update your status and mood and shows the most recent status’ and moods of your friends. With the icons across the top you can view your inbox, add a friend, view your comments, view your friends list and upload a picture.

Of all the great things the App provides, I think being able to FINALLY upload mobile photos is my favorite! I have been waiting for this specific feature for an extremely long time!

Last but not least, you can take those annoying and pointless bulletins your friends post way too often everywhere with you! Oh joy!

The only con I have come across is that you don’t receive any notifications when you get new messages, friend requests, comment, etc. Maybe they will implement something like that later on! I sure hope so!

You can go to the MySpace BlackBerry Application page here. To have an OTA link sent to your BlackBerry email so that you can download it, go here. You will need to type in your name and BlackBerry email address and then you will receive an email with a link to download the App directly to your ‘Berry!

Enjoy!

MySpace Profile 2.0

Posted by Carla | myspace | Tuesday 11 November 2008 12:35 pm

MySpace is hot on Facebook’s trail. As we’re all familiar, MySpace likes to mimic Facebook in more ways than one. I think the worst thing MySpace could have stolen from Facebook is applications. Facebook does it flawlessly but MySpace makes you afraid to read your bulletins or comments!

I’ll be honest, Facebook seems to be much better run than MySpace but I tend to use MySpace much more.

With the new 2.0 profile you can customize where your “modules” are, who can see what modules and you can even customize it as if you were using an html generator.

I’ve played around with it and have noticed that it makes some of my existing content quite large and creepy looking. All in all, I don’t care too much for it, but I said the same thing about the new Facebook and now I like it a lot.

However, I really do like that the 2.0 profile allows you to choose who can see what, which might prompt me to make my page public again if I can make my page look the way I like with the newfangled layouts and “modules”.

How do you like the new 2.0 profile?! Please let me know! Maybe you can convince me to use it!