Top Samsung Apps (July) - Social Networking

Looking to get social with your Samsung Smart-phone? Why not start here and get the top ten best Social Networking Apps free today!
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Location, Location, Mobile

(hosted by Mobile Manifest, Leeds 14/07/11)

This event was all about Location based services offered via mobile and Samsung was able to present their own (developed at SERI) Location based Social Networking app on bada - BuddyFix.

BuddyFix is a open source project, which can be downloaded here. We've also put some videos together to help you get started using the BuddyFix code (viewable on our YouTube channel, or directly here)

Sameer, doing his best phone hacking ecosystem mashup

The presentation, by our own Sameer Ballewar, was an overview of both the bada ecosystem and BuddyFix, the most social location based application we know of! 

Location is an interesting topic, which doesnt seem to have been fully monetised yet... I wonder if there is room at the table for a small (low cost) location based advertising firm? Perhaps this is a growth area for our current map providers, NAVTEQ? All they would need is a good CMS & some campaign managers to sell the results?

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Sameer's presentation is currently available to view on Slideshare if you've not seen it before,

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Buddy Fix Developer[3]: Communicating with Facebook friends

Exciting news for those who’ve been following the Buddy Fix developer video series, the finale is finally here (http://developer.bada.com/article/Buddy-Fix-Developer-3-Communicating-with-Facebook-friends ). For those new to BuddyFix, it’s our open source, location based, social networking application for bada. The video series has explained bada’s powerful social networking classes and walked you through the BuddyFix code, showing you how you can use it as the basis for your own applications.

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NAVTEQ Berlin Developer Day

Ahh Berlin, City that never sleeps and always knows where it is, thanks to Location Based Services provided by NAVTEQ!
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"Buddy Fix Developer [2]: Messaging" video now online

In the second part of our BuddyFix developer series we look at how BuddyFix implements messaging. We examine the role of the bada server, show how messages are sent and received and explain how the last message from a Buddy can be shown, together with their location, on a map.
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Buddy Fix Developer [1]: Profiles, Privacy and Searching Video Now On-line!

In the second installment of our bada Social Networking series we start our code level introduction to BuddyFix, our open source, location-based, social networking application. We explain how BuddyFix manipulates profiles, demonstrate how to implement privacy and provide an indepth journey into the classes that BuddyFix uses to help you find and add your buddies.
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Intro to Social Services Video Now On-line!

This video provides an overview of bada's powerful Social::Services namespace and describes its main features, including Profiles, Privacy, Buddy Services, Messaging and the Social Networking Gateway. We look at the role of the bada server and introduce BuddyFix, our open source location based social networking application.


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BuddyFix new features video (coming soon!)

Just got through filming the BuddyFix new features promotional video - took about two hours to get the lights sorted, adjusting the position, luminosity and then after all that the white balance on the camcorder... I miss the days of manual zoom....

Sameer's tears @ the lighting

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Samsung goes social with BuddyFix!

Some great news to kick off 2011 - our internally built bada Application BuddyFix has passed Q.A. and is now available to download! You may remember BuddyFix as the application used in our examples and code segments in Introduction to bada - For a quick-start guide to BuddyFix, please visit - bit.ly/BuddyFix or just search for BuddyFix on your device and get adding buddies!