Last week, we had such an amazing week at BlackBerry Live in Orlando. This week is a special post-BlackBerry Live edition of BlackBerry World Wednesday full of new apps and games to hit the storefront for BlackBerry 10 this week. Some of them were even newly announced at the show last week. For those of you who may have missed it check out the BlackBerry Live wrap-up here. For those who just want all apps, all the time, check out our curated list of new BlackBerry 10 apps below. Enjoy!

BlackBerry Z10 Apps:

Music & Audio:

• Animoog (Moog Music Inc.) – As featured at BlackBerry Live

Gaming:

• Tesoro Submarino (Discovery Latin America, LLC)
• Dark Nebula: Episode One (Union)
• CreaVures (Union)
• Samurai II: Vengeance (Union)

Navigation & Travel:

• Wikitude places (Wikitude GmbH)*
• Firstpost for BlackBerry 10 (NETWORK18)
• Virgin Trains (Virgin Trains)*
• Qatar Airways (Qatar Airways)

Lifestyle & Entertainment:

• Nectar (Aimia Coalition Loyalty UK Limited)
• Keep Calm Poster Creator (Apache Softech)*

Fitness & Sports

• Endomondo Sports Tracker for BlackBerry 10 (Endomondo)*
• LFC Connect for BlackBerry 10 (Liverpool Football Club)*

Books:

• Copia eBook Reader (Copia Interactive, LLC)

*Also available on BlackBerry Q10

BlackBerry Q10 Apps:

News & Information:

• Europe 1 (Lagardère Active Digital)

Finance:

• moneycontrol’s Markets on Mobile (NETWORK18)

Lifestyle & Entertainment:

• Zara (Zara.com)

Navigation & Travel:

• Virgin Trains (Virgin Trains)

Sports:

• LFP (Liga de Futbol Profesional)

BlackBerry Dev Picks of the Week:

Here are the top 5 ‘must-haves’ apps according to our developers here at BlackBerry:

1. Twimfeed (Twimfeed) “A neat way to bring the image component of Twitter to the forefront”
2. PlayCoach™ Full Fitness Trainer (Playcorp) “I use this one quite a bit in my home gym—a mobile personal trainer”
3. Animoog (Moog Music Inc) “One of the best mobile instrument apps out there. Also used by Dream Theatre’s Jordan Rudess– this is a must have app for musicians”
4. Ichi Are You Smart Enough (Stolen Couch Games) “Awesome pre-loaded levels as well as the option to create your own”
5. Bubble Crush Mania (G Soft Team) “A pretty fun game—best of all it’s free!”

Latest App News: Keep an eye out next week, we will feature the awesome Unity Games coming to BlackBerry 10!

Winners for the Best Built for BlackBerry App Awards were announced last week. Check out the 2013 winners at the Insider BlackBerry Developer Blog.

For a look at all BlackBerry 10 apps, head to BlackBerry World. and let us know what you think of this week’s selection in the comments below.

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You’ll also definitely want to check-out what attendees onsite here at the show had to say about all the excitement and energy, here at BlackBerry Live 2013.

Melanie here, jumping into Donny’s blog post. Donny, Alex and Luke did a great job summarizing the week in the wrap video, but I think there’s one element they didn’t mention – the behind the scenes. Thanks to BlackBerry Story Maker, I was able to grab some videos and pics we made throughout the week that is just too good not to share. Check out BlackBerry Live through the eyes of the Social Media Team.

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There you have it — a BlackBerry Story Maker video showcasing BlackBerry Live 2013 from the social media team’s perspective! Let us know how we did in the comments — Thanks for a great week, we’re signing off!

My first BlackBerry Live conference, and I’m definitely inspired. I’m in the enviable position of having recently joined in the company of a brand with a groundbreaking product platform, a disruptive marketing organization, a stellar social media team, and a global top 10 social fan base — ~32MM followers and fans that are not only rooting for our success in a volatile category, but have armed themselves as ambassadors for our cause.

Say no more than a recent tweet by world champion cyclist Mark Cavendish “Got an hour to relax, so playing around with my BlackBerry Z10. This phone is a monster! I love it! And no, this ISN’T a commercial tweet.”

Got an hour to relax, so playing around with my BlackBerry Z10. This phone is a monster! I love it! And no, this ISN’T a commercial tweet.

— Mark Cavendish (@MarkCavendish) May 9, 2013

But there’s an even more specific reason it’s so thrilling to be here at this point in time. Humility and Ambition. BlackBerry has a mega-challenge ahead of it driving adoption of BlackBerry 10, but the organization is humble enough to recognize what we’re doing wrong, curious enough to learn what we don’t know, and ambitious enough to make it right.

Ambition is at the core of the BlackBerry brand. And it’s who BlackBerry customers are — multi-taskers, fast-moving and ambitious. We’re balancing family, friends and professional lives, we’re ‘up to stuff’ in our day-to-day lives, work or play, we’re always on-the-go. More than just a tag line, ‘Keep Moving’ is a promise to support our customers in achieving their ambitions. Be it a personal ambition of climbing Kilimanjaro, spending more time with your kids, or a career goal to build the most social brand ever (yep, that’s mine), our role as the social team is to provide you with what you need to achieve your ambitions. Social Media is integral to what we do at BlackBerry, because while we’re mobile from the ground up, our device is social at its core too — connecting you to the people and information you need to keep moving. Our social marketing needs to reflect that ethos, to behave in the same way our product does, and it’s our commitment to bring you the social connections, experiences, content and even insights you need, to get where you’re going.

More than lip service, we made some announcements that support just this focus at BlackBerry Live this week. Alicia Keys announced the BlackBerry Scholars Program, a four-year scholarship fund to support young women in achieving their ambitions to make a mark on the world, while encouraging women to embrace careers in technology. Our newly announced Keep Moving Projects turns the celebrity endorsement model on its head. Rather than paying artists or celebrities to say what we want them to say about our brand, we’re asking artists to approach us with projects they want to do, and we’re asking them how we can support them in achieving their goals and ambitions. We know we’re going to get more authentic content and experiences this way, people who want to work with us and engage with our product for the right reasons.

Stay tuned for mobile social developments in this space. So glad to be here, and working for you and together with you, be sure to let us know what you’re up to in your lives, and what we can do to keep you moving. We’d love to learn more.

The energy is there… you could feel the electricity!

Watch the video below to get a feel for the vibrant and palpable energy from attendees at BlackBerry Live 2013.

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It’s always one of my favorite parts of the week, when I get to see this video for the first time. Hearing the feedback first-hand is a great feeling. Don’t be shy! Leave us a comment of what you thought of BlackBerry Live 2013 and let us know how we did covering all the action.

Catch his take on some of the best announcements and the showing of strength from the BlackBerry leadership team. Watch the brief video below for all the details:

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Let us know if you have any questions for Jeff in the comments below. For those of you perplexed by the “tie you to a chair” reference — check out this video from early on in the BlackBerry 10 marketing days where Jeff and I show off some features in a fun way. Thanks for being a good sport, Jeff!

For those of you who’ve missed it, we captured all of the action and have broken it up into short segments for you to watch. Aman Bhalla, Product Manager for the new BlackBerry Q5 stopped by the studio to show us all around the fun and youthful new device. Check it out in the video below

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Have you got questions for Aman? Let us know in the comments below and we’ll work to get them answered.

I was fortunate enough to have some time to chat with Lewis about how he’ll be using BBM Channels to connect with his fans and the source of his ambition and drive for greatness. Check out my brief video interview with him below:

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In the interview Lewis talked about how the team is always looking forward to new technologies in social media that allow them to connect to their fans. Fans are a big source of inspiration and with BBM channels, he’ll be able to connect with them in a new and highly engaged way.

BBM Channels allows individuals and groups to create a dedicated channel and share information and updates with the immediacy that BBM offers. BBM customers around the world will be able to connect and share information, broadcast about themselves to their channel, or join their favorite communities and share their experiences of the channel with their BBM contacts.

I then had the chance to talk with Nick Fry about synergies between the BlackBerry and MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS brands and how to manage a large team in mission critical operations. BlackBerry is helping the team harness the power of every individual on the team, something that Fry says is essential.

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How will you connect with the brands and celebrities you’re passionate about on BBM Channels? Let us know your thoughts below and be sure to check out the MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS team BBM channel.

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Mark Rigley, of QNX, and Thorsten Heins showed off the power of the BlackBerry platform with a the first BBM Video call from a phone to a car. On the line was none other than Vivek Bhardwaj who was jokingly taking a vacation, while at BlackBerry Live. Check out that video conference and the gorgeous QNX Bentley in the video above.

In a true demonstration of the power of mobile computing, they were able to update software on the vehicle wirelessly via a BlackBerry 10 smartphone. What do you think about the QNX Bentley? Are you excited for the future of mobile computing?

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To view a recording of yesterday’s general session keynotes, head over to the BlackBerry Live and BlackBerry Jam Americas web sites.

What are you most looking forward to today? Share in the comments below.

Today was an exciting day at the BlackBerry Live keynote in Orlando. We brought you all the action live as it happened here on the Inside BlackBerry blogs, and our social media properties. But there are a few awesome things that you may have missed – so we’ve taken the time to collect all the highlights here in one post! Talk about efficiency.

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Thorsten Heins, kicked off the day reflecting on the year behind us and the years ahead. It’s been a long journey, but BlackBerry has built a world-class executive team who successfully brought BlackBerry 10 to market. If you’re familiar with the BlackBerry 10 experience, you already know that it’s a truly mobile experience that’s designed to be fluid and keep you moving while on the go. We’ve come a long way since he took this very stage last year and his message is clear.

“BlackBerry is firing on all cylinders!”

Thorsten took a few minutes to talk about our rapidly growing app ecosystem with BlackBerry World now containing 120,000 BlackBerry 10 applications! The news and announcements flowed throughout the event with an epic crescendo (more on that later). From the announcement of BlackBerry 10.1 availability on the BlackBerry Z10, bringing with it the Skype app to the all-touch smartphone, to the release of U.S. availability information for the highly-coveted BlackBerry Q10 smartphone – there was no doubt that we are committed to this platform and to our customers.

To round out the hardware announcements, Thorsten stood on a glowing red stage to unveil the fun, youthful new BlackBerry Q5 smartphone to be available in select markets around the world. The QWERTY keyboard phone, also running BlackBerry 10, was met with cheers from the crowd of attendees.

The focus quickly shifted to our strength in mobile computing as the QNX Bentley Continental show-car rolled onto the stage. Thorsten joined Mark Rigley, of QNX, in the passenger seat and delighted the crowd with a BBM Video call to Vivek Bhardwaj who was jokingly taking a much-needed (and well-deserved) vacation. They rounded off the demo by updating the car’s software wirelessly through a BlackBerry 10 smartphone – a true demonstration of the unique strength of the platform in machine-to-machine connectivity.

The show themes of power in the auto sector didn’t end there, we’d still see two more partners join the stage, with horsepower abound. Thorsten welcomed President & CEO of Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Johann Jungwirth, to talk about the future of the platform deployment in the auto industry. And, not to be out done, famed grand prix driver and MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS team member, Lewis Hamilton, rolled onto the stage with a stunning race car to introduce something very special.

Hamilton and Thorsten introduced a new way for brands, celebrities and others to connect with their fan base called BBM Channels. BBM Channels will bring the engagement power of the BBM platform to brands, something that will no doubt be a welcome way to connect with their user-base.

BlackBerry has been very effective over the past year in doing this – Frank Boulben , CMO at BlackBerry, took the stage at BlackBerry Live to discuss the year in BlackBerry marketing and the transformation of our brand in many different areas including social media. We have YOU to thank for that #TeamBlackBerry! He then welcomed Global Creative Director, BlackBerry – Alicia Keys to the stage to discuss the next phase of the Keep Moving projects and the BlackBerry Scholars program, a multi-level strategy to engage young women across the globe in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM).

The announcement that indisputably drew the biggest reaction from the audience was the introduction of plans to bring BBM to iOS and Android platforms later this year. The announcement made waves across the mobile community and definitely resonated with many. It’s a big step for our much-adored messaging platform that set the standard for mobile instant messaging with fast and reliable service and an added layer of engagement with delivered and read statuses.

The keynote was nothing short of a masterpiece for us here at BlackBerry, and it ended with the BlackBerry executive team taking the stage all at once for the first time. A wonderful photo-op and symbol of the strength of BlackBerry as we move to pioneer the future of mobile computing.

Did you tune in on the live stream or follow the action on our social channels? Which was your favorite moment from the BlackBerry Live 2013 keynote? Share it with us below in the comments.