“Feature list:

• collections – contacts are organised in collections, roughly corresponding with social circles. USers can form instance define close friends, family, colleagues, former schoolfriends etc as their collections.
• flexible access control to content – all content contains AC policies based on moving collections and individuals contacts in or out of access, no access boxes
• visual audience indicators – all content is labeled by icons showing who has access to the information
• fading relations – depending on the activity of one’s contacts, these users slowly disappear. At first this happens through visual indicators (coloured border around user icon), later by closing access to one’s data from the automatically defriended contact.

[…] Future Plans […]

1. Building pseudonym functionality for participation in groups in Clique:
   1. When the audience of a self-presentation is unknown or unknowable (as is the case when users participate in groups) it is in the users’ interest to create distance between their ‘real’ identities and their persona displayed in the group. In everyday life this practice is known as masking — think, for instance, of using a pen name to write a book, of stage names for pop idols and of code names for secret agents.
   2. Mimicking the everyday practice of masking we want to build a pseudonym tool for Clique, so that whenever users want to join or create a group they are asked to provide a pseudonym to use for all their postings.
   3. This pseudonym should be invisibly linked to the face(s) behind it, so that the user’s privacy is guaranteed.
2. Building a fading and blossoming relationships tool in Clique:
   1. In real life relationships between people tend to wax and wane rather than remain exactly the same over time. When people do not see or speak to each other for long periods of time relationships may fade away entirely.
   2. In social network sites all relationships are stable and there is no (visible) difference between contacts that one engages with frequently and ones one doesn’t engage with at all anymore after the moment of adding them to the contact list. We want to remedy this fact by building a tool that mimics fading relationship in Clique, by allowing these to gradually disappear from the contact list. Similarly, blossoming relationships could be made visually more prominent and given more easy access to content and information.
3. Building a fading content tool for Clique:
   1. One of the key problems with respect to privacy on the internet of the level of permanence of much of the information people place online. Content lives on in cyberspace, oftentimes even long after the owner has forgotten about it, or, even worse, has attempted to remove it.
   2. To contribute to solving this issue we would like to build a fading content tool, which works in a similar way as the one mentioned under 3, except for content.
4. Integration with and gaining feedback from the Open Source community, so we can return Clique into that community.”