Path

Path adds messaging, stickers for messaging, and a shop to, um, buy stickers for messaging

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Mar 6, 2013 a 9:37 pm

Path, the eye-candy filled semi-private social network app for iPhone and iPad, has updated to version 3.0. New features center around messaging, which allows you to communicate directly with a specific friend, rather than posting things for all of them to see. They've also added stickers, or little graphics you can send via messaging, and a store to buy stickers.

Path now available for iPad

By Leanna Lofte, Thursday, Nov 1, 2012 a 9:49 pm

The social network Path has been updated with support for the iPad. In portrait, it has a design that you would expect -- sidebar on the left with your stream to the right. In landscape, a summary of the posts for the day are displayed as a collage of photos, movies, music, locations, and book previews. It's a very visually appealing to consume the content shared by your friends.

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Best free social networking apps for iPhone

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, May 8, 2012 a 8:03 pm

Looking for great free social networking apps for your iPhone or iPod touch? The App Store is home to over half a million apps and games, and a surprising number of them are available for free. Some of the most popular free apps are -- surprise, surprise -- free social networking apps. We're talking Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest, Path, and more. So start reading, and then start downloading!

Path adds better security to further address privacy concerns

By Allyson Kazmucha, Tuesday, Apr 3, 2012 a 12:43 pm

The new version of Path will hash your Contact data including names, e-mail addresses, Twitter handles, and Facebook profile IDs.

Which social networks do you use regularly on your iPhone and iPad?

By Georgia, Sunday, Mar 25, 2012 a 12:33 pm

There are several popular social networks on the web and they all have iPhone apps, and many have iPad apps (or the iPhone app can be used in 2x mode on the iPad). Which ones do you use, and if you have both and iPhone or iPod touch and an iPad, do you use them all the same on both? Are there any you prefer using on on iPhone as opposed to iPad, or vice versa? Any you use on one you don't use at all on the other?

Path update lets you journal your runs, identify music, and more

By Leanna Lofte, Thursday, Mar 8, 2012 a 6:53 pm

The social networking app Path recieved a significant update, today, that allows users to journal their Nike+ runs, identify music that's playing around them, and when taking a photo, they can adjust the focus and exposure separately.

PSA: Popular iPhone and iPad apps and what they're doing with your Contacts

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Feb 14, 2012 a 10:46 pm

What do some popular iOS apps to with your Contact data? Do they grab it without permission, transmit it without protection, and store it without regard to privacy? Or do they treat it right, with respect and responsibility?

iOS 6 wants: Granular privacy control

By Rene Ritchie, Sunday, Feb 12, 2012 a 12:19 pm

Like with Notification Center, Apple should look to and improve upon what Google's done with Android to better keep our Contacts safe.

Earlier this week the internet got itself into a kerfuffle over Path, a small-circle social networking app for the iPhone, which took Contact information without asking and openly transmitted it to Path's servers. It's an important issue to be sure, one worth getting into a kerfuffle over, and Path eventually apologized and vowed to make changes. But Path was only one of many, many apps to act this way.

Path apologizes for taking your address book, wipes data from their servers

By Simon Sage, Wednesday, Feb 8, 2012 a 10:35 pm

Despite iPhone address books being transferred over SSL, and the data only being used to notifications when friends signed up, Path has apologized profusely and wiped any personal information from their servers.

PSA: Popular social network app Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to their servers... in plain text

By Simon Sage, Tuesday, Feb 7, 2012 a 6:59 pm

Do you love Path, the slick, simple, moment-sharing social network app for iPhone? Well, you get ready to dial it back a notch, because apparently they're storing your entire address book, e-mail addresses and all, on their servers, and in plain, un-encrypted text. What kind of evil deeds does Path have planned for all that data?