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Looking for an easy way to share video of what’s happening right now, but only have a BlackBerry with you?  Next2Friends is trying to help out with that by releasing the “First Live Mobile Streaming Video for BlackBerry Devices.”  The apps will work on the BlackBerry Curve and Pearl models, and allow you to stream live video over the Internet.  It also allows for the videos to easily be shared via social networking sites like Facebook, blogs, or any other sort of website.

The applications are also available for Symbian S60 and S40 devices, as well as Windows Mobile 6.  This is the first time this suite of applications is available for BlackBerry, and Next2Friends is currently working on extending the applications to work on “a number of other popular operating systems,” which would presumably (or at least hopefully) include Android and iPhone.

Next2Friends promises that advanced compression techniques used for shared content will cause no problems with degradation or delays with the images or videos, even though they are transmitted at a size smaller than the original.  That is fairly believable, given that most videos on the site look like average YouTube videos and the fact that the cameras on most cellphones aren’t all that amazing. 

The “Mobile Social Suite” also includes applications for “media rich opinion polling,” simple picture uploading, and an app called “Tag & Meet.”  Tag & Meet actually seems a bit interesting.  It can sense any other users within 30 feet of you, send your profile to them and receive their profiles on your phone, and make recommendations on people you might want to meet based on your mutual interests.  Possibly a bit stalker-ish, but still a neat idea.

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