[eswat]

I addressed this in another comment, but the ability to message businesses that they are rolling out in the summer would be their gateway to actually making money (businesses want to hear feedback about themselves but there aren’t many solutions that address this well yet).

[jljljl]

Don't businesses already get a lot of this through Twitter, Facebook, Get Satisfaction, and other sources?

[eswat]

This is all public though. Given Path is a "private" social network then if businesses can resolve issues without getting into a public mess, talking to the customer in a private tunnel in a sense, it’s easier to diffuse situations.

[dchuk]

Huh? Isn't Path all about small private social networks? What the heck does business feedback have to do with anything?

[eswat]

Path acquired a company that deals only in business feedback and say they’re rolling out their tech - even if they don’t plainly say it - in the summer (check the bottom of the talk page).

Just because they’re dealing with private social networks now doesn’t mean they can’t tap into another market, especially now when the private social network thing doesn’t seem to be working out for them.

http://blog.path.com/post/89363978092/path-talkto