The document outlines a project proposal for 'constellate,' a social networking web service that aims to manage and strengthen personal relationships across various platforms. Users can tag and organize their connections, while developers can access real-time relationship information through an API for enhanced user experience. The concept emphasizes social relationships to redefine online interactions, facilitating introductions among users based on mutual connections.

1. Constellate a project proposal

2. Constellate a thesis project proposal

3. the problem: we have to re-add and re-group all of our friends for each new social web/ mobile service we want to try

5. a web service

6. a social network

7. a social network with no content

8. keeping track only of the relationships between people

10. a walled garden

11. a walled garden with many gates

12. Users input (or import) information about their relationships names, email addresses, handles/screennames how they know each person Users group people together with custom tags Tags can then be used on third-party services

13. Developers then have access to robust and current relationship information who knows who how people tag/classify each other Developers use either a web API or an installable black box that automatically synchronizes with Constellate database

14. is it monetizable? probably not

15. probably not for profit

17. Strangers?

18. Dodgeball

20. Dodgeball for the web

21. Constellate knows what you are doing on the web who you are friends with who your friends are friends with what they are doing on the web

22. Example

23. you're looking at photos on Flickr a friend of a friend is also looking at those same photos on Flickr Flickr queries the Constellate API and learns that these users have a mutual friend Flickr then asks both people if they would like an introduction in the context of these photos and that friend (note that the opt-in is on a case by case basis) If both you and the friend of a friend consent, an introduction is provided

25. can strengthen connections between creators and viewers of content web is no longer inhabited by mutually unaware strangers uses social relationships to re-conceptualize 'viewing a website' as 'being present at a website' mutual friends passively brokering introductions

26. can strengthen connections between creators and viewers of content web is no longer inhabited by mutually unaware strangers uses social relationships to re-conceptualize 'viewing a website' as 'being present at a website' mutual friends passively brokering introductions

27. can strengthen connections between creators and viewers of content web is no longer inhabited by mutually unaware strangers uses social relationships to re-conceptualize 'viewing a website' as 'being present at a website' mutual friends passively brokering introductions

28. can strengthen connections between creators and viewers of content web is no longer inhabited by mutually unaware strangers uses social relationships to re-conceptualize 'viewing a website' as 'being present at a website' mutual friends passively brokering introductions