Patent ID: 8601027

Claim:
A system comprising: a computing device; and a computer-readable medium coupled to the computing device and having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising: receiving digital content from at least one user of a first plurality of users; determining one or more queries based on at least one of a temporal identifier or a location identifier obtained from the digital content; processing data stored in a data store based on at least one query of the one or more queries to identify a second plurality of users, the second plurality of users sharing a commonality identified by at least one of the temporal identifier or the location identifier obtained from the digital content; generating one or more query-based social circles, the second plurality of users populating a query-based social circle of the one or more query-based social circles, the query-based social circle being directed to the commonality and defining a distribution list for distributing the digital content to one or more users of the second plurality of users; and transmitting social circle data corresponding to the query-based social circle to display a representation of the query-based social circle to at least one user of the first plurality of users.