RIM released BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) 6 Thursday. Long a staple of the BlackBerry experience, Blackberry Messenger remains a strong platform with 45 million users, 70% of whom use it daily. This latest iteration of BBM adds a new social application layer to the incredible  messaging platform. 

On supported apps, users will be able to utilize various BBM features within the applications itself. While playing a game, for example, users can invite their BBM friends to join and continue to chat in real-time, all from within the application itself. Some of the apps that will support BBM 6 include: Foursquare, The Huffington Post, Wikitude, Telemap, Scoremobile and Poynt.

You can see how Foursquare will integrate BBM 6 with its app in this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JqdJLCLvhoY

Users can download Blackberry Messenger 6 today from the BlackBerry App World, along with several BBM connected apps. More of those apps are set to launch in the upcoming months.