RIM's BBM Social Platform goes to open beta, lets devs bake BBM into BlackBerry apps

Announced at BlackBerry's 2010 Developer Conference last fall, BBM Social Platform has just become available to interested third-party devs in beta form. but yeah, that's not happening quite yet. Instead, the SDK allows folks developing for BlackBerry OS to integrate BBM capabilities into their own apps, and the list of capabilities is pretty extensive: you'll be able to read and update user profiles, embed BBM chats inside your app, and transfer files, just to name a few of the big ones (with the user's permission, of course).

RIM's BBM Social Platform goes to open beta, lets devs bake BBM into BlackBerry apps