The app is one of the most visually appealing apps I’ve come across, and it almost feels like you’re playing when you use it.

However, for me to use it as much as I would like (I’d love for it to be my ‘social journal’, which is also what the team behind it are calling it) I miss some integration with other apps and services. Let me give you some examples:

• Sleep/awake – Path let’s you tell others when you are sleeping and when you are awake. I rarely use this feature, but I always use sleep cycle and/or the alarm function on my iPhone. If I could feed info from Sleep cycle into Path, I would.
• Location – I find myself using Path more and more, when checking in. Path let’s me share check ins on Foursquare, which is great, but I find myself missing the social and gaming features when I go too long without checking in on Foursquare. Integration both ways would be cool
• Images – I post images to Flickr. Have done for years and years. And I also post to instagram. One more photo sharing service just isn’t going to work for me. But to be able to feed content in from the other two would be awesome.
• Music – obviously, I would love for Path to just display whatever I was listening to on Spotify or even what I scrobble to LastFM.
• Status – draw from Twitter and/or Facebook.

I know, that apple will probably not let the good peeps at Path grab info accross that many apps, but to the extent that the could (some are services, too, which should make it easier) I’d be over the moon.

Basically, I suppose, Path would be like Evertale for iPhone. Or I could just hold my breath and hope for an iPhone friendly vesrion of Evertale.

• rich editing buttons
• easy image and video upload
• location feature

Will need to give it a go…

The Swedes put on a great conference, and though the internet connection was crummy (to say the least), the organisers deserve much praise.

A couple of sessions really hit home with me, and left me inspired and energised. Among these were:

Paolo Antonelli’s opening keynote:

Björn Jeffrey’s talk on digital toys

Amber Case on cyborg anthropology

Bill Drummond’s out there “The17″ keynote (sorry, no video)

And Tine Thygesen’s session on drisruption.

Featuring Luke Williams

All in all, a good two days in Malmö, more take aways than I’m used to, and I for one won’t hesitate to return next year. Enjoy the vids.

Where I work, we – amongst other things, thank God – design and develop videoplayers.

And it just struck me – or actually my man Christian just pointed out, that there is something inherently illogical to the conventions surrounding player-design. It revolves around the ‘play/pause’ and ‘mute/unmute’ buttons.

Why the hell is it, that when a video is playing you see the pause icon on the ‘play/pause’ button (meaning ‘this is what will happen if you press the button’) whereas when the sound is on you see the ‘unmuted’ icon on the mute/unmute button (meaning ‘this is the current state of the video). Is that not hellacounterintuitive?

Video is paused, sound is on

Video is paused, sound is off

Video is playing, sound is on

Can someone explain the logic to me?

Twitterific

Since ‘Twitter’ (the artist formerly known as Tweetie) is not out as an iPad app yet, I was pretty sure I would be using Tweetdeck as my app of choice for tweeting. However, after installing it and having it crash on me more times than I care to mention, I decided to give Twitterific a go. The app works just fine, but I really would have liked for it to make better use of the screen real estate. After all, we’re talking about a 10″ screen, and for someone who runs multiple accounts I would have like to be able to get a better overview of my activities. The app is well worth the relatively low price, though.

WordPress

For years, WordPress has been my tool of choice for blogging. Therefore I was thrilled to see an iPad app for blogging viaWordPress (both hosted and non-hosted blogs).It works like a charm, syncs new posts and comments quickly and is highly recommended. One feature I would just love to see added in the future is WYSIWYG editing, as having to type in html is kind of a drag. Especially on the iPad. But kudos to the developers, and awesome that the app is free (I would actually have paid good money for it).

IM+

I don’t use IM a whole helluva lot any more, but from time to time it makes sense to be able communicate suncronously (is that even a word?) and for that purpose, IM+ gets the job done. But until real multitasking hits the iPad, IMing will probably mostly be an office activity for me.

I am yet to try Skype on the pad, but it could be a healthy adition to the communications tools. I still think it needs to run in the background to make sense, though.

Any other suggestions for good communications apps?

Coming to you in a blog post soon: Entertainment apps and apps for kids!