The Relevant News: Path Social Network Follows Path to Improve
This news is focusing on the Path a successful contact list app in mobile. And there is some experience we can take them as examples into our app.
Path is an app based on contact list of mobile; it has a great number of user groups now. Though there are some problems occurred in early stage of Path such as charged by users due to the exposing their personal information, it also has attracted many users to try it. As we know, the most important key in social network is the user group. Thus, how to get the stable user group is a crucial point to learn from Path. From this news, Path attracts some active memberships from other social websites who has a large number of fans. I think is a good and efficient method to use in our app. additionally, there is permission for users when they first use the Path, which is good for terms of privacy. Depends on our app, it is necessary for us to make permission for users before they use the app and some security measures can be embed into our app. Path is a impressive app on contact list and its pattern has proved. However, comparison with our project: Rank First, Path cannot do the rank for customers. Rank is the most obvious function of our product. By using Rank First, customer also can do the actions like another SNS websites.
Links: http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/story/2012-03-21/path-privacy/53694216/1