One-way public relationships

摘要

Techniques are described to establish one-way public relationships. In an implementation, a service manager module is usable to configure a webpage for output to a client over a network to provide to a user of the client an indication of others users that are part of a social network of the user and have establishes one-way public relationships, respectively, with another user corresponding to an object of a social networking service available from a service provider. In addition, a relation module is configured to establish a one-way public relationship between the user of the client and the other user corresponding to the object without establishing a mutual friend relationship between the user and the other user. In an implementation, the one-way public relationship is established in response to user selection of a control that is presented on the webpage that is output at the client in conjunction with the object.

主权项

1. A computing device to provide services to a client based on social relationships, the computing device comprising:
a processing system; a service manager component operable to configure a webpage for output to a client over a network to provide to a user of the client an indication of one or more other users who are part of a social network of the user and have established one-way public relationships, respectively, with another user corresponding to an object of a social networking service available from a service provider, the service manager component configured to expose on the webpage a control that is output at the client in conjunction with the object and which is operable to establish one-way public relationships; and a relation manager component operable to:
establish a one-way public relationship between the user of the client and the other user corresponding to the object without establishing a mutual friend relationship between the user and the other user and without providing the other user with reciprocal access to the social network of the user, the one-way public relationship being established in response to detecting a user selection of the control that is exposed on the webpage that is output at the client in conjunction with the object; anddistribute content related to the object to the client based on the one-way public relationship between the user of the client and the other user corresponding to the object.