Path has published an update to its user agreement and privacy policy to clarify the types of information the Facebook competitor collects from users’ mobile devices and how that information might be used. Here’s what you need to know.
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Path Confirms Series B Funding From Redpoint, Richard Branson and Others (AllThingsD)
CEO Dave Morin noted the investors’ commitment to building Path “for the long term,” and said the funding would be used for “international growth and expansion as well as user adoption.” Inside Mobile Apps In February, Path revealed it has passed 2 million registered users, more than half of which had joined since the service relaunched in December as a personal journal app, pivoting from its original vision as a private photo-sharing service. GigaOM Ever since Facebook decided that Instagram was worth $1 billion, there has been recurring talk of Path, another social service being the next big buyout target. And while I am happy for the Path team, I find the comparisons with Instagram unfounded and premature. Business Insider Here’s what’s odd: RedPoint just invested in a startup that is in many ways very similar to Path: Caterina Fake’s new startup PinWheel. Read more
Path has announced that they will be supporting new languages by crowdsourcing the translation using Smartling. This allows users to sign up and edit the languages available for Path and submit translations themselves. This is similar to what Twitter did and is probably one of the coolest (and cost effective ways) to spread your app out for more users to use.
When you download an application, you’re giving it a certain level of trust. We’ve all been in the position where we download an application and within minutes we’v been asked multiple times to “log in with Facebook to invite all your friends.” We quickly remove the application. What if the application covertly uploaded everyone one of your address book contacts to its own servers? Unfortunately, that’s the case with Path, a popular iPhone social app that we’ve covered here in the past. The fact was broken this morning by Arun Thampi, a blogger in Singapore.
When it launched in November 2010, Path touted itself as The Personal Network: the foil for other sites like Facebook that were overrun with marketers and other non-friends. After a year on the market, Path 2.0 launched in December 2011 with a slew of new updates to make the social network into a Smart Journal for mobile users. I downloaded the app to my Android last week to follow Path in its new direction, and was surprised at where it took me.
The PATH commuter train line, which runs between New York City and New Jersey, scheduled a Tweet for 10 a.m. ET Sunday to wish its riders a happy Mother’s Day. Unfortunately, it was not a happy Mother’s Day for the 34 people injured in an accident in Hoboken, N.J., one hour earlier.
Path, the social networking site founded by ex-facebook executive Dave Morin, Napster co-founder Shawn Fanning and Dustin Mierau, has raised $8.65 million in venture capital funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Index Ventures. Kleiner’s Chi-Hua Chien and Index’s Mike Volpi will be joining Path’s board as a result of the funding. The current round of funding brings the total money raised by Path to $11.2 million.
You know how the more followers you have on Twitter, the more important you are? The same is not true for Path, the new social network that launched yesterday. The iPhone application is supposed to give us “The Personal Network” — Path users are only allowed to have 50 friends. But is this what we really want? Read more
