Via “What they’re dubbing the “Smart Journal”, the new Path is an app that allows you to quickly record all kinds of things you’re doing while out and about. You can still share pictures and videos, but you can also share your location, what music you’re listening to, who you’re with, and even if you’re sleeping. ”
There is great merit in having a device on you wherever you go and using that device to record a journal of sorts. However, Path requires that you use that one app for everything – sending tweets, Facebook updates and connecting to other social media from inside Path.
IMHO, this approach won’t work. I think if Path were to pull in tweets, Facebook updates and updates from other social networks in addition to posting them, the value proposition would be much higher. Momento does a good job of this – but it keeps the information private.
If the functionality of these two apps were to meet – then I think it would be more compelling. Right now, to me, Path looks like something that requires me to be compulsive, pulling out my phone wherever I go. Just the thing I’m trying to stop doing.
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