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Surprising Science — April 30, 2012

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Path is a “smart journal” app for the iPhone and Android.

This app is a private social network to share pictures and moments with an intimate circle of friends and family. Path gets smarter as time goes on, updating your location and other statuses automatically. The emphasis on privacy and intimacy (Path only allows up to 150 people in your network) is an effort to counteract the overexposure and relative anonymity of other popular social networks.

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