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Update | On The Right Path

We were early adopters of both Dave Morin, one of 2009's Most Creative People in Business, and Path, his photo-sharing startup that we reviewed in the May 2011 issue ("The Path Taken"). Last November, Path released a comprehensive ...READ»

Facebook Actions: Building Up The Database Of You

The social network allows third-party apps to pipe information about what you're doing elsewhere back to the mother ship.READ»

7 Social Networks Obama And The GOP Hopefuls Should Definitely Join

When President Obama showed the power and potential of Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube in 2008, every politician and their chief of staff's mother jumped on the social media bandwagon. Yesterday Obama joined Instagram. Here are several other networks he--and his rivals--should be on.READ»

How Path Is Becoming A "Smart Journal"

Path steps away from the "photo-sharing" category and firmly joins the emerging rank of apps--from Facebook to Erly--that are devising ways to create digital scrapbooks of our lives.READ»

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Flavors.me Wants To Curate Your Fragmented Social Media

Flavors.me, which boasts 750,000 users and has raised roughly $5 million from angel investors including David Tisch and Dave Morin, launches a new version of the service today aimed at tackling our social media A.D.D.READ»

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How Google+ And Other "Little Versions Of Facebook" Solve Social Media's "Big" Problem

Google+ guru Bradley Horowitz, Path's Dave Morin, and GroupMe's Jared Hecht talk to Fast Company about "the biggest problem in social networking"--grouping the right friends in the right ways. READ»

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Can Facebook Groups Support Its Deals?

Facebook has only seen 50 million Groups created after six months. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has called grouping friends "the biggest problem in social networking." This is the secret sauce in Deals?READ»

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A Former Facebooker Forges A New Path (App)

After Facebook, Dave Morin continues to shape the way we share moments with friends.READ»

Baked In: BranchOut Lets You Manage Your Climb Up the Ladder From Within Facebook

The career networking app's CEO says Facebook will be dominated by "utilities" in the years to come, starting with ones like this.READ»

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The Echo Chamber of Secrets

How the newly-launched Path network may be too insular for its own good. READ»

Don't Look Now, but Your Social Relationships Have Changed--Again

You may not have thought about this, but your social relationships are changing on an almost daily basis. You have simultaneously more and less control over your human interactions, for better or for worse. Your relationships are increasingly determined by devices like phones, iPads, and computers.READ»

PATH Bringing Super-Fortified Rice to Africa

When we last covered PATH, the nonprofit had licensed its rice fortification technology to producers in Brazil, Columbia, and India. Now PATH is bringing Ultra Rice--a rice-shaped extruded rice grain filled with vitamins and minerals--to Burundi.READ»

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Bill Gates Sends Mosquitoes Into Crowd

Whether or not you think Bill Gates is a sadist probably has a lot to do with whether or not you're a Vista user, but we can all agree that freeing a swarm of mosquitoes into an auditorium is downright cruel. Yet that's just what ...READ»