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Path — Introducing The Personal Network

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Re: Path — Introducing The Personal Network

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post #37

The photo wars are heating up: Dailybooth, instagram, picplz, path, etc... exciting! (I am an investor in both dailybooth and picplz)

Do you think picplz can beat instagram to having an API? I'd like to give this user an alternative: http://ourdoings.com/burgerlife/

Re: Path — Introducing The Personal Network

#72
post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The limit of 50 does seem like a bit of an awkward conversation waiting to happen. Surely someone must have pointed out to the developers that someone out there has a large close family and a lot of close friends? I'd also be very worried about the even more difficult conversation: "sorry, you were in my top 50, but I've bumped you for my new friend Dave"

What do you think people told the Twitter guys about 140 characters? ;)

Punctuation that I have to remove from a tweet doesn't have feelings that get hurt.

Re: Path — Introducing The Personal Network

#73

Unfortunate that they restricted their initial launch to iPhone users only. I want to try it, but all I see is a blank page. I suspect I'll have forgotten entirely about Path by the time they launch apps for other mobile platforms (or a web interface!)

Web interface: http://path.com/

Re: Path — Introducing The Personal Network

#74
post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The limit of 50 does seem like a bit of an awkward conversation waiting to happen. Surely someone must have pointed out to the developers that someone out there has a large close family and a lot of close friends? I'd also be very worried about the even more difficult conversation: "sorry, you were in my top 50, but I've bumped you for my new friend Dave"

What do you think people told the Twitter guys about 140 characters? ;)

The "Twitter guys" had a reason to make twitter use 140 characters since twitter initially was built solely for use with SMS and they had to deal with SMS's 160 character limit. 140 for the tweet and 20 for your twitter handle. As others have stated 50 is an arbitrary number.

Re: Path — Introducing The Personal Network

#75

The production quality here is really really good. However, I agree with the excellent presentation posted here a while ago 'The Real Life Social Network' ( http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-networ... ) that the issue isn't number of people I want to share with. The issue is that the groups of people I want to share content with are completely separate. There are a number of pictures I would be ha…

www.frid.ge is working on solving exactly this problem.

Re: Path — Introducing The Personal Network

#76

I wonder if they pushed this out of the door because of the traction that Instagram is picking up right now. It feels very similar, although not as refined at this point.

I'm surprised they launched it right before Facebook's big email announcement. Seems like that announcement may overshadow anything else "social" that comes out today.

Re: Path — Introducing The Personal Network

#77

The production quality here is really really good. However, I agree with the excellent presentation posted here a while ago 'The Real Life Social Network' ( http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-networ... ) that the issue isn't number of people I want to share with. The issue is that the groups of people I want to share content with are completely separate. There are a number of pictures I would be ha…

Email solved this problem 20 years ago.

Re: Path — Introducing The Personal Network

#78
Unfortunately their system doesn't appear to accept strong passwords. When trying to sign up with a 12 character password with symbols, while I get a green checkbox, submitting causes me to get a "Requires password" dialog.

edit: This is from within the iPhone app.

Re: Path — Introducing The Personal Network

#79
post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you think people told the Twitter guys about 140 characters? ;)

The "Twitter guys" had a reason to make twitter use 140 characters since twitter initially was built solely for use with SMS and they had to deal with SMS's 160 character limit. 140 for the tweet and 20 for your twitter handle. As others have stated 50 is an arbitrary number.

"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."

Re: Path — Introducing The Personal Network

#80

The production quality here is really really good. However, I agree with the excellent presentation posted here a while ago 'The Real Life Social Network' ( http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-networ... ) that the issue isn't number of people I want to share with. The issue is that the groups of people I want to share content with are completely separate. There are a number of pictures I would be ha…

Email solved this problem 20 years ago.

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