We’ve refined our lenses and added two new ones: Country and Lake.

Because privacy is one of our core values, and based on your feedback, it became a priority to remove the option to see everyone in “Top Locals” for Place Stories and “Top Fans” for Music Stories. You let us know that this feature made Path less private than it could be. Now you can only see the activity of your friends and family members on Path, and nothing from anyone else. Life is busy and the world is a hectic place. We’ll make sure your Path is not. Download 2.0.3 here!

We’ve heard feedback from some people using compact Android phones who aren’t getting the Path experience they expect. We believe you deserve an experience from Path that’s as beautiful as the moments you’ve been capturing, so we’re working hard to fix the problem. Thank you for your patience.

We’ve made a few improvements to Path.

Sticky switches to are now switches that reset each time you share a story, so you’ll never accidentally share to other networks. When you choose a photo from your camera roll, we’ll use the location of that photo to inform our place chooser. And check out the new animation and design when you add friends on Path. Download it here.

We are delighted to receive two “Flys” from TechCrunch for Path 2. We have been overwhelmed and delighted by the response and growth of the Path community over the last week. Thank you to all of our loyal early users, and a warm welcome to all of our new users. We hope you continue to enjoy and please send us your feedback anytime. 

Our Co-Founder and CEO Dave Morin discussing Path 2 this week with Loic Le Meur in Paris at Le Web.

So many of you have been enjoying sharing your Path stories to Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare, and now we’ve added one more place to share.  With Path 2.0.1, you can publish to your Tumblr with the tap of a finger.  In addition, we’ve added password recovery and some bug fixes.  Thanks again for using Path!

All over the world, family and friends have been adopting a new way to share their lives with each other.  They have been adopting Path. 

That’s why we released version 1.7.5 for the iPhone—an update that makes Path available in ten languages.  Now you can share moments in English, simplified Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.  

In addition, we have added “tap-and-hold to save” for all photos and videos on Path, so you can save any moment in your Path to your camera roll with the touch of a finger. 

Lenses can be added during or after you have captured a moment, so you can truly personalize before you share.   

We’re beginning to prioritize languages for future Path updates and could use your help!  If you’d like to see Path in a language we haven’t added yet, please let us know.  

Enjoy!  Profiter!  Njuta av!  Desfrutar!  Godere!  즐기세요!  

At Path, we value the act of sharing moments — from the ordinarily beautiful to the uniquely special — and we believe our users value this too.  We’ve heard from couples who share photos of their lunch every day using Path.  We’ve heard from grandparents overjoyed to see Path video moments of their grandchild’s first steps.

Now, we want to hear from you!  Please email us your best stories of how you use Path to moments@path.com.

We’re collecting these stories for our own internal research, but there could be external opportunities to tell these stories to the world.

We are excited to announce Path for Android is available today in the Android Market. We have decided to release Path for Android as a public beta for everyone to test and enjoy.

On Path for Android you can:

• Capture and share life’s moments through photos.
• Stay connected to a small group of 50 close friends & family.
• Tag your moments with people, places, and things.
• View your friends’ moments.
• Let your friends know how each moment makes you feel with Emotion.
• Have intimate conversations around each moment with Chat.
• Know when your friends have seen your moments.
• Publish the occasional moment on Facebook for all of your Facebook friends to see.

We will continue to iterate and release updates with more features frequently. As we move through this beta period, expect things to improve rapidly. We love hearing from you, so please share your feedback anytime.

You can download the application here or use the QR code below.

Enjoy.

At Path, above all we believe in empowering simple design, quality craftsmanship, and creative freedom.

To that tune we host hackathons once a month where we hack on anything we want. The only rule is: don’t work on what you normally work on. This practice was pioneered at Facebook. We borrowed the practice in the hopes that it would encourage similar innovation here at Path.

Every once in awhile, interesting ideas emerge, and we continue to explore them. And, just as movie production studios have productions and shorts, we think technology companies should too. Too many a good idea go untested in the wild for fear of failure.

At a recent hackathon, we discussed an idea that we thought to be fairly powerful: A fun, simple way to share who you are with. The idea seemed to have legs.

As we have been building Path, we noticed two things.

First, we continue our obsession with the moment at Path. We’ve found that some of the best moments on Path are those in which you share who you are with.

Second, we had a lot of users asking us to create the Path experience for Twitter, though more than half a million Path users genuinely enjoy the private and personal nature of the network. So, we needed to consider enabling users to capture and share moments on a public network.

Third, as we continue our quest to build new types of networks which maintain their quality over time, we have been fascinated by the idea of an interaction network. Or, as we enjoy calling it, the With Graph.

Further, at Path we also value authenticity. We thought that the best thing to do was to take some of our existing technology and ideas, and create a simple and authentic experience for Twitter to accomplish this.

So over the last several weeks, we built it.

Introducing With, the first Path Short.

Including: 

• A fun, simple way to share who you are with. Beautiful photo optional.
• Free and Premium Lenses for taking beautiful photos of friends.
• With is an interaction network. The friends you are with most often rise to the top of your profile.
• Friendship has its benefits. Closer friends receive special benefits…with more to come.
• Built entirely on top of Twitter with Twitter Single-Sign On.
• Available worldwide for iPhone and iPod Touch in the App Store
• Available on the Web at: http://with.me

We thought we would put this out there to see what people think. We hope you enjoy.

Click here to download With from the App Store.

Who are you with?

As you collect more and more moments along your Path through life, we want to make it simple and easy to relive and explore your memories in deep and rich ways.

We want you to discover new and interesting things about yourself and your close friends and family.

We also want to help you understand not only the depth of your own personal interests, but those of your close friends and family. Not just who, where, or what they are interested in, but how much.

Today we are happy to introduce an entirely new profile paradigm on Path: Stacks. 

Now, every moment you add to your Path is automatically collected, stacked, and organized neatly on your Profile. With every person, place, or thing you tag, each moment automatically organizes itself into a Stack to be easily accessed and relived, anytime. Telling stories with Path has never been easier.

Stacks make it easy to learn more about yourself, and more about your close friends and family. As you browse to your own profile, you will see the top 3 people, places, and things you are most interested in. In addition, you can easily browse to the entire list of people, place, or thing stacks to explore the depth of all of your personal interests. 

As you browse to the profiles of your close friends and families, you can begin to discover the depth of their interests too. Enjoy learning more about their personal interests, preferences, and tastes. You can also now access Stacks from the action bar to the left of any moment.

We think that helping you understand the depth of both your own interests and those of your close friends and family will help you discover more about the people you care about most, help you understand each other more deeply, and maybe even make it easier to make decisions or find a recommendation for a new person to meet, a new place to explore, or a new thing to try.

For 1.6 we’ve also thrown in a few extra goodies too. Most important of which: the Path Camera now opens almost instantly, so you will never miss a moment.

Enjoy.

As our obsession with the moment continues, we are always looking for new ways to help you add context to your moments. In thinking about context, we like to think of the important questions good friends ask each other to start a conversation over a distance:

How are you? Who are you with? What are you doing? Where are you? 

And often times the question of:

How’s the weather?

Weather often times defines our days. A beautiful sunny day evokes feelings of warmth and happiness. While a cold and rainy day reminds us of staying inside and cuddling in blankets while listening to the rain against the windows.

Weather is ever changing but always a constant and important context. 

For Path 1.5.2 we’ve worked with our friends at SimpleGeo to add weather, including the temperature and the forecast, to all of your moments. Bringing a new layer of context to the social web.

An Evolving Sharing Model

At Path we also spend a lot of time thinking about the best model for sharing amongst close friends and family. We call this model the personal network. It will always be evolving and we will always communicate the changes we make and the learnings behind them.

With 1.5.2 we have evolved the model based on user feedback and our own research. The model now has a few simple tenants:

You may still share with up to 50 friends. These are now the same friends you will see in your “Today” feed.

When sharing a moment, you can share it:

• In Private: Can only be seen by you and the people tagged in the moment.
• Friends: Can be seen by all friends you share with and all the friends’ of people tagged in the moment.
• In Public: Can be seen publicly and shared on Facebook.

We’ve evolved the interface to reflect this model, and we will continue to refine and improve the model going forward.

We think these changes make Path even more personal by allowing you to share in a variety of contexts, to interact with your friends’ close friends, and to see more photos of your close friends than ever before.

Growing Worldwide

As Path continues to grow worldwide, we’re working to internationalize and localize Path into a variety of languages.

Japan has been one of our most active countries. It is a country that inspires us through culture and design. And, also a country that is deeply on our hearts due to the recent tragedy.

Starting today, Path is now available in Japanese and in the Japanese App Store. 

We hope you enjoy.

Click Here to Download Path 1.5.2 >

As Path grows and helps more people be themselves and share life with close friends and family, we try to continue to pursue our vision of the personal network. With Path 1.5 you can connect with more of your close friends and family than ever before and express yourself in more personal ways on Path, and now also Facebook.
 
Here is a look at the updates:

Connect and Share with Facebook
As we have been evolving Path we’ve been thinking through the best ways to harmonize with the social networks you know and love.

We’ve heard loud and clear that you love the ability to share more moments more often on Path with your personal network, but that some of those moments also belong on Facebook. We’ve also heard from you that you would like to connect with your Facebook friends who are not yet on Path.

Starting today, we’re making both of these things possible.

First, you can now share with any of your Facebook friends on Path. Each time you capture a moment on Path, we’ll share it on your Facebook Wall, too. And, we’ll even make sure that the privacy settings are setup correctly so that only the right people see it.

Second, you can now share any of your moments on your Facebook Wall with all of your Facebook friends. After you capture a moment on Path, simply flip the switch to Facebook and we’ll post it right on your Facebook Wall for the world to see.

More Personal Moments with Lenses
Now with more than 3 million shared moments on Path, we want to help make every moment more personal. Every moment more, you. Especially now that you can share your moments on Facebook as well.

With that in mind, today we are happy to announce Path Lenses and Path Premium Lenses. A magical new way to style your photos AND videos in real-time as you capture a moment.  Think of Path Lenses as your own personal lenses for your iPhone.

Starting today you can use Pro, Ansel, Instant, and Diana Lenses for free.

Premium Lenses are available for $0.99 each, starting with Old Time, The Grid, and 8-Bit.

We’ll be hand crafting new Lenses and releasing them as time goes on. We’re excited to help you make your moments better, and we hope that your moments are more personal than ever before.

Keep Up To Date with Activity
Over the last few months we’ve added lots of new ways to see the reactions from your friends through both Emotion and Comments, in addition to Seen It. Today, we’re releasing the all new Path Activity feature. Which, gives you a real-time view into the reactions of your friends on every photo that you update. Making it easier than ever before to know that your moments made your friends smile, laugh, frown, gasp, or love. Or, to just see which of your friends are just stopping by to take a look.

Path Activity is the most personal activity feed we’ve ever seen. We love it, and we hope you do too.

Find Close Friends with FriendRank

We’ve also heard from you loud and clear that the process of finding and connecting with your close friends could be made easier. Today, for new and existing users we’re rolling out an all new friend recommendation service we lovingly call FriendRank.  

When new users join Path, after connecting witih Facebook, the FriendRank algorithm looks at your activity on Facebook and magically guesses at who we think are your top 5 friends. For existing users, we’ll use this same service to power the recommendations at the bottom of the all-new Friends tab.

We hope this makes it easier than ever before to connect with your close friends and family on Path.

Special thanks to Elena Abrams for her beautiful sunflower photo which we are using for each Path lense icon.

Path 1.5 is available in the App Store here. Enjoy.

Here’s a new iPhone wallpaper from your friendly neighborhood Path Design Team. Enjoy :)