2 posts and columns on Michael Parekh

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.

A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words–So What Does a Big Smile in a Layoff Story Mean?

in News on October 27, 2008 at 9:42 am PT

Happy days aren’t here again, it seems. Still, I am not quite sure what to make of his big, happy smile on Seesmic founder Loïc Le Meur’s face, which went with a story in the New York Times about start-ups cutting costs. In fact, the whole Seesmic crew is grinning awfully hard, putting a very game face on recent layoffs that cut the staff at the video blog service by more than a third.