Charlie Harris is a Nashville-based writer/editor for LocalEats, an online dining guide, mobile application, and book series highlighting the nation's best independently owned restaurants.
In the future, Sense will also make discovering and sharing media--music, video, mobile applications and books--easier, says Bamford.
But Path is hardly the only mobile application that collects address books.
A website and mobile application for creating photo books, cards and calendars.
EventBoard is also releasing a mobile application that enables employees to book conference rooms from mobile devices.
But the issue highlights the potential privacy concerns of any "address book" replacement mobile application, and the very real risk that comes along with giving an app of any sort permission to access your iPhone's contacts list.
That being said, the process is still quicker and far less painless than downloading a standalone mobile application and then customizing your photo book yourself.
The books are associated with many other services (such as exercise books, audio books, mobile applications, board games, theatre pieces, and movies), and thus instead of positioning itself and its products in an established market, the company creates a new market space.
Perseus Books Group introduced a mobile application allowing visitors to vote on the best books of the fall.
The start-up company Vook pioneered the concept as a mobile application and for the Web in 2009, but with the iPad, traditional publishers are taking the multimedia book much more seriously.
