If you’re like me, you thoroughly enjoy connecting with people and friends.  If you’re like my parents, you often travel on business.  These applications combine the best of both worlds, allowing you to search what is near, keep your friends (or family) updated on your daily activities, et al.  If any of what I just said appealed to you, read ahead for my top five LBS applications. If not, well read anyways!

1. Poynt – When out with friends, I often fire up Poynt to find something to eat or where to buy the cheapest gas.  As a bunch of students, you can probably guess that money is a little tight for us.  On top of business location, you also have the ability to search white pages, movies, and the like.

2. Google Mobile – As an avid google user, Google Mobile has proved to be even more useful!  When Poynt isn’t quite enough, I open up Google Mobile which often provides more information on where I’m going as well as the ability to sync with Google Maps quickly and easily.

3. FourSquare – Something out there for the social networking junkies like myself, FourSquare allows you to ‘check-in’ to places, showing your friends where you currently are.  I often use this with friends so we can meet up somewhere, even if they don’t know exactly where I am.

4. Ubertwitter – For relatively accurate location tweeting, FourSquare has taken over for me in this respect, but if you want an all in one application, go for it.  Ubertwitter is the most easily used twitter application on BlackBerry (in my opinion) and has one feature that sets it apart.  The ability to start from where you left off.  When leaving the application, it can run in the background and you will start off exactly where you closed Ubertwitter at.

5. Bing for BlackBerry – The alternative to Google Mobile.  If you prefer Bing to Google as your primary search engine, this is perfect.  I would disagree with this, but both Google Mobile and Bing are well refined and easy to use.  It boils down to preference.

For those of you who have never used any LBS apps, I strongly recommend you do so.  As a student, I have found a use for them in every day life.