10 posts and columns on Dave Morin

Spotify’s Special Projects Head Shakil Khan Moves to Path to Do Same

in News on March 30 at 5:00 am PT

The fix-it guy for the popular music service takes his tools over to the personal social network.
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Path Apologizes for and Removes Automatic User Address Book Uploads

in Social on February 8 at 12:24 pm PT

Personal social network Path got called out yesterday for automatically uploading users’ address books to its servers. Now the company has formally apologized and introduced a fix. CEO Dave Morin wrote in a blog post, “We now understand that the way we had designed our ‘Add Friends’ feature was wrong. We are deeply sorry if you were uncomfortable with how our application used your phone contacts.”

Path Now Has 2M Users, Having Doubled Since It Relaunched Two Months Ago

in Social on February 3 at 5:00 am PT

Path got the second version of its product a lot more right than the first — and two months in, the numbers bear that out.
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Path Tries Again, Now as a Mobile Journal App

in Social on November 29, 2011 at 8:44 pm PT

Users of Path, now a sort of mobile blogging tool, can tell close friends where they are, who they’re with, what they’re doing, what they’re listening to — even whether they’re sleeping or awake.
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Hearsay Brings Compliance to Social Media

in Social on February 3, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

Hearsay Labs today launched a social media platform for companies that have both corporate brands and local representatives, with existing customers such as Farmers Insurance, State Farm and 24 Hour Fitness.

What to Do With Photos Piling Up in a Phone

in Personal Technology on December 8, 2010 at 6:20 pm PT

A large number of photo apps have cropped up that allow you to tweak pictures, add filters, tag on information about subject and location, and post them on social-networking sites, writes Roger Cheng. Note: Walt Mossberg is on vacation and will return Dec. 16.
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Path: The Social App That's Not Viral (By Design)

in Social on November 14, 2010 at 9:00 pm PT

While there are many interesting photo-sharing apps out these days, Dave Morin and Path are the most convincing about there being a larger idea behind what they’re doing. San Francisco-based Path is stubbornly focused on close personal connections–a.k.a. real friends.

Hot Potato Is Ready to Eat: Do Twitter, Facebook Users Want Another Real-Time Chatter Service?

in Media on November 25, 2009 at 7:25 am PT

Last month I told you about Hot Potato, one of the buzziest start-ups in the very buzzy “real time” sector. Now you can check out the service yourself. Or at least you can get a glimpse of it in this video.
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Dear Web 2.0: You Might Want to Stop Believin'

in News on October 9, 2008 at 2:14 pm PT

All in good fun, right? I am sure this will be the dumb-as-a-box-of-hammers reasoning this group of Web 2.0 folks gives for this odd video effort, doing a lip-synch romp on their group vacation in Cyprus to Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’,” and then posting it for all to see on Vimeo. It is titled: “Twenty world Internet citizens met in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus in October of 2008 for a week of reflections on life, love, and the Internet.” Um, kids, here’s a reflection: While you swim in that pricey infinity pool in your luxury villa, Silicon Valley is tanking all over the place. You might want to check your email and see if Sequoia Capital or Ron Conway has cost-cutted you out of a job!