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Path is a social networking-enabled photo sharing and messaging service for mobile devices, launched in November 2010. The service allows users to share with their close friends and family up to a total of 500 contacts. Dave Morin, co-founder and CEO, says: "Our long-term grand vision here is to build a network that is very high quality and that people feel comfortable contributing to at any time."〔 The company began with an iPhone application and a website, and later released apps for Android, iPad, and Windows Phone. The company competes with other social networks such as Instagram. Path's established innovations in UI design that continue through other mobile applications including context sensitive bubbles and the three bar menu slide. Based in San Francisco, California, the company was founded by Shawn Fanning and former Facebook executive Dave Morin. Path's initial $2.5 million funding round〔 included Ron Conway, Index Ventures, First Round Capital, Ashton Kutcher, Kevin Rose, Marc Benioff, Chris Kelly, and others.〔 It subsequently raised $30 million in venture capital from Redpoint Ventures. On January 11, 2014, the company announced it had raised another $25 million in venture funding from Indonesian Bakrie Group, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Index Ventures, Greylock Partners, Insight Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, and First Round Capital. Indonesia is the world's largest Path userbase with more than 4 million users. On May 28, 2015, Path announced it has been acquired by Daum Kakao. ==Service== Users update their stream on Path by posting photos and adding tags for people, places, and things. Path limits each user's social network to 150 friends to encourage users to select only high-quality connections. Overall, the decision the company says was inspired by psychology research that suggests people have a maximum number of workable social contacts. The limitation, along with user controls over how to share each post, were designed to encourage greater sharing of personal information by keeping it private to a person's inner circle of social contacts. The site was intended as a companion to Facebook and other social network platforms, as opposed to a destination website. Contacts are suggested from among persons in a user's electronic address book, as well as people with whom the user is communicating by email. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Path (social network)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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