Yes, it has been a while. Here’s the thing…when I heard that RIM were working on a Twitter client I suspended work on Yatca until I see what they’ve done. It has been reported that this official BlackBerry Twitter client will take a basic approach similar to Yatca by integrating with the message list. It will go way beyond what Yatca can do however and offer true push delivery of tweets (i.e. near real-time), integration with the Contacts application, support for pre-4.6 devices, etc. I am busy enough with other projects so it does not seem to make sense to try to compete with RIM if most or all of the above is true. Rumour has it that RIM’s Twitter client will land before the end of this month. When it does, I’ll review the options for continuance of the Yatca project.

Hey, have we mentioned recently that we have a Facebook Page? And Twitter / Identi.ca accounts? Check us out!

The newly released version 1.1.0.19 of the App World storefront fixes the problem that was breaking Yatca. The only snag is that it is more difficult than you might think to install the latest version of App World…

At the time of writing, if you install App World directly from the BlackBerry website you will end up with the old version 1.1.0.15 even though it tells you that you are about to install 1.1.0.19 (check under Options -> Advanced Options -> Applications following installation and you’ll see what I mean). The trick is to use App World to install the new version of itself. You can do this by launching App World and going into the ‘Top Free’ section.

With that uncertainty removed I can now get back to the next Yatca release!

Vibber, CTO of Wikimedia (Mediawiki), announced that he is leaving to StatusNet (Laconica); http://j.mp/3ORLjI

We want to thank Rebecca Kiessling for coming out last night and giving at a great talk at St. Michael’s College. Check out our Twitter or Identi.ca profile for updates during the talk!