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Path and Pinterest are probably two of the hottest social services right now, racking up millions of users and generating an ocean of favorable coverage. But both have gotten tripped up by the same thing that has made the social web a minefield for both Facebook and Google: namely, decisions that put their interests ahead of their users, and a lack of disclosure about what was going on behind the scenes or under the hood of their services. Will these missteps spell doom for either company? Probably not. But the backlash is a welcome reminder that for social apps, the trust of users is not something to be toyed with.

Path, a mobile photo-sharing app that expanded to become a full-fledged mobile social app when it relaunched a couple of months ago, was co-founded and is run by Dave Morin, an early Facebook staffer. You might think that the privacy blowups the giant social network has experienced over the past couple of years would make Path pretty sensitive to handling user data properly, but that doesn’t seem to be the case: earlier this week, controversy erupted when it was revealed that Path was uploading all of its users’ contacts to the company’s servers, something that many users have taken as a breach of their privacy.

It may not seem like a big deal, but you should still disclose it

In public comments on the blog post that first brought this to light, Morin apologized and said that Path will fix the problem in an upcoming version, by requiring users to explicitly opt-in — and he also tried to defend the company’s behavior by saying that it is the “industry best practice.” As a commenter on the Hacker News thread about the issue put it, however, a better phrase might be “industry lowest common denominator.”

It’s true that other apps and services also do this, including WhatsApp, Beluga, Hipster and others, and the ability to do so has been a part of Apple’s iOS since 2008. Others have also noted in Path’s defence that Apple allows apps to upload contacts without explicitly asking users for permission — something that it doesn’t do for other data such as a user’s location. And it’s also true that importing a user’s address book makes it a lot easier to scan for friends who are already on Path, and that this can be a benefit for users in the long run.

That said, however, the anger and shock that Path’s move seems to have triggered among many users — some of whom say they have deleted the app and will never return — makes it pretty clear that even if this behavior has benefits for users, the lack of disclosure about what Path was planning to do is a deal-breaker for many.

Pinterest, meanwhile, did something completely different to upset some of its users, but the underlying lesson is the same: the company — which says it has built up a massive user base of more than 10 million in just two months — is a content-sharing service where fans of different products and websites can post (or “pin”) their favorites. Since popular posts can drive a lot of traffic to websites that sell these products, Pinterest has been adding affiliate links that generate revenue for the site when users click on them.

Lesson: Never take your users for granted

As many of the company’s defenders have pointed out, this behavior makes a huge amount of sense for Pinterest, since it is providing a free service and needs to generate revenue somehow. But as with Path’s move — which also makes a lot of sense from a purely utilitarian point of view — Pinterest failed to disclose what it was doing to users, or at least failed to make it obvious. Perhaps the company thought (as Path likely did) that users wouldn’t mind. But it turns out that plenty of them do mind.

Path’s decision seems the more surprising of the two, if only because there are so many examples of similar undisclosed or opt-in-by-default moves that have triggered a huge amount of backlash, and not just for Facebook but for Google as well. The search giant’s engineers also clearly thought that merging people’s email contact lists with their new Buzz service was a great idea — after all, it was the most efficient way to populate a user’s follow list. But many users disagreed, and so did the federal government, and the resulting backlash arguably helped kill Google’s first attempt at a real social service.

The lesson here is that for social apps, the trust of users is paramount, and the best way to maintain that trust is to be as open as possible about everything that is occurring, particularly if it involves a user’s personal data. Whatever you’re doing with it may not seem like a big deal to you, but better to be open about it than have it revealed by someone else — at which point you look sneaky. As Craigslist founder Craig Newmark has put it, “trust is the new black,” and it never goes out of style.

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Alec Saunders, VP of Developer Relations, just took the stage at RIM’s DevCon gathering in Amsterdam to build up and promptly knock down a few “myths” about RIM’s state of health. First up, he tackled the notion that BlackBerry is a declining platform by saying that App World is seeing six million downloads per day, which is up 30 percent from three months ago. He also rejected the idea that BB apps devs don’t make money, revealing that 13 percent of them have made over 0,000 from their products and that App World generates 40 percent more revenue than the Android Market. Lastly, Saunders said “we’re sorry” that RIM’s strategy has been “hard to understand” for “some people”, but added that BB10 will solve that problem. He said that the new OS represents a “simple and easy-to-understand strategy” that is about combining the best of QNX and the current BB OS, offering consistent cloud services and making software that is both backwards and forwards compatible.

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Currently most online video services have a sort of hunt-and-peck approach to finding things you might want to watch. You pick a video, watch it and then when it’s done you have to hunt down something else that might be of interest. But the latest version of Remixation’s Showyou app attempts to simplify the discovery process by making discovering new videos easier and more enjoyable.

The latest version of Showyou includes new ways to navigate content by category or by the social network that they’re pulled in from. There’s also a way for users to search and see all content curated by hashtag on Showyou and via Twitter. Finally, the update provides more information about others that you follow and gives you the ability to see what they’ve been sharing b clicking on a user’s avatar.

The trick to what makes Showyou work is that videos play in-line, without users having to exit the app. That reduces the amount of time it takes between finding videos, and there’s always something interesting being shared in the grid. Showyou displays videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Break Media, some Viacom shows like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, as well as videos from The Verge, TED and other Internet publishers. Altogether, the Showyou app pulls in about 5 million videos a day, according to Remixation CEO Mark Hall, or about 150 to 200 each second during peak times.

That’s led to huge amounts of user engagement for its users. While session times on most video sites typically run less than 10 minutes, Showyou users watch about 35 to 40 minutes of video whenever they open the app, or about eight videos per session on average. Online video needs better discovery mechanisms for users, and apps like Showyou are helping to increase viewership and keep users tuned in.

(Disclosure: Remixation is backed by True Ventures, a venture capital firm that is an investor in the parent company of this blog, Giga Omni Media. Om Malik, founder of Giga Omni Media, is also a venture partner at True.)

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DrMelon's interface works for the web and a phone.

Dr. Sang Hoon Woo is an internist at Stanford Medical School who had grown frustrated listening to his patients’ tales of trying to find health information online and reading about Steve Jobs’ misguided attempts to cure his cancer using homeopathic means found on the web. Dr. Woo decided he had to do something to help his profession reach consumers in the online (and mobile) age. So like the folks who created WebMD or Dr. Koop or myriad other online medical resources, Dr. Woo built DrMelon, with the aim of getting trusted medical information to consumers in an easily digestible form they can access from any device. He’s one of several entrepreneurs trying to bring medicine into the current connected age.

DrMelon (he was eating melon at the time he conceived the site, plus the domain name was available) was created last year, and Dr. Woo is currently raising money to take the site to a real beta within the next few months. He says he wants to be the Apple of healthcare for consumers, but what he’s doing is more akin to becoming a destination site of curated information for medical apps and information, which might make it closer to the iTunes or App Store of medical information.

The site currently offers a curated search, videos, forums and a place for patients to ask questions. Eventually, it will also contain apps recommended by doctors. Because he’s hoping patients bring DrMelon into their doctors’ offices, the web site has the same navigation and features as the mobile app. But Dr. Woo isn’t alone in thinking he has the cure for inaccessible medical information.

Dr. Woo’s startup has similarities to Happtique, a startup spun out of the Greater New York Hospital Association Ventures, that’s currently testing an app store designed for physicians as well as trying to develop a seal of approval for medical apps. In both cases, doctors are seeking ways to help consumers filter the morass of health information on the web, and eventually help build tools that can make finding trusted answers to basic questions (such as drug interactions or the efficacy of certain therapies) easier. This is both a response to spammy search results that invariably pop up when someone drops a medical condition into Google, but also an attempt to help consumers find actionable information on a single question, as opposed to a glut of questionable information on a topic.

For example, I broke my pinky toe again this weekend because I find walking to be a challenge. The DrMelon-curated search is on the right, while the Google search for the same term (broken pinky toe) is on the left. The top result for both comes from the same site, but then results diverge considerably, with Google delivering links to spam and Yahoo Answers, which can deliver less-than-trustworthy advice. This is helpful, but DrMelon, and other curated sites become super valuable if they can help create a searchable Quora-like network of expertise around medicine, where people can ask the community questions and get quality responses. Of course there’s a world of difference between asking someone to name their favorite cloud computing startups online and asking someone if that weird lump you feel in your armpit might be cancer.

Meanwhile, it’s not clear if there’s a business model around providing trusted information from doctors to consumers outside the physician’s office. Happtique wants developers to pay to have their apps reviewed by physicians in order to get its stamp of approval, while Dr. Woo is a bit more wait-and-see about revenue for now (he does run ads on the Google-generated search results he curates). Given this and a rash of other medical startups, plus the creation of the health-focused incubator Rock Health, many people see an opportunity to bring the web into the connected age, but the route to success isn’t certain.

For now, the innovation is happening around the edges, as consumers play around with data-gathering devices and share personal health challenges with friends. Employers are also involved, by buying health plans that try to entice people into social programs that promote good lifestyle decisions using gamification and other social carrots. As Dr. Woo and the hospitals working with rival Happtique are discovering, there’s a large gray area around apps, the web and business models that still needs to be defined.

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