Path is one of the new up and coming apps for the iPhone (and soon to be available for all phones). The idea behind Path is that everyone today carries their phone with them everywhere they go, and take pictures and videos along their journey’s.
Here is an explanation taken from Path’s website:
So, what is Path?
Path is the personal network. A place to be yourself and share life with close friends and family. The personal network doesn’t replace your existing social networks – it augments them.
Path allows you to capture your life’s most personal moments and share them with the 50 close friends and family in your life who matter most.
Because your personal network is limited to your 50 closest friends and family, you can always trust that you can post any moment, no matter how personal. Path is a place where you can be yourself.
Capturing
Capturing a moment on Path is simple and contextual. Simply take a photo with your camera on iPhone and add context around that moment in the form of tags for people, places and things. These tags provide 3 types of context which we think help capture a moment.
Think of it as a place for the memories along your path through life.
Sharing
On Path, you always control who you are sharing your personal moments with. We know that if you are sharing with a single person you do not trust, you will not feel comfortable sharing. So we’ve build the personal network model to keep you in control, always.
We chose 50 based on the research of Oxford Professor of Evolutionary Psychology Robin Dunbar, who has long suggested that 150 is the maximum number of social relationships that the human brain can sustain at any given time. Dunbar’s research also shows that personal relationships tend to expand in factors of roughly 3. So while we may have 5 people whom we consider to be our closest friends, and 20 whom we maintain regular contact with, 50 is roughly the outer boundary of our personal networks. These are the people we trust, whom we are building trust with, and whom we consider to be the most important and valued people in our lives.
We’ll help you find those close friends on Path, and we’ll help you share with those who aren’t yet on Path.
No following, no friending…just sharing with the people who matter most.
Seeing
Because Path is a personal network, we will always seek to build features which increase meaning and understanding between close friends.
To this tune, we’ve built an innovative new feedback feature we call “See”.
For each moment that you capture and add to your Path, you will see which of your friends have seen the moment in real-time. The idea is that understanding enables trust and storytelling amongst close friends and family.
We hope you feel like more of your close friends are seeing life through your eyes than ever before.
Exploring
Because of the amount of context included in each moment on Path, we want to help you explore and understand both your memories and those of your close friends’ in unique and interesting ways. We have started by helping you see moments on a map of the world. Expect more neat visualizations in the future from us.
How do you start your Path?
Path is available from the App Store on iPhone or in the App Store here.
If you do not have an iPhone, but want to register your username and check out Path on the web, sign up here.
According to consumer reviews, Path has the potential to be top seller on iTunes. But unfortunately it just isn’t there right now. Many reviews complained about how they can not use camera roll pictures, which means that they can not use old pictures and videos they have taken. The other complaints are that consumers can not comment on pictures other than the caption and that the original resolution of the images can’t be restored.
How long will it take before Path makes a new version that meets all the customer needs? How long will it remain a test product only available to iPhone users?
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