Robert Fulghum’s wisdom notwithstanding (“All I Really Need to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten”), socializing is complex.  Really complex.  Modern evolutionary science weighs in on this, with recent studies proposing that the reason we humans have such large brains is because our survival depends on advanced social behavior, and it is being successful with that social behavior that requires outsized brains (“Evolution in the Social Brain” Science,  September 2007).

Consider what you do when you enter a social event full of people you know.  You mingle, you move around, and you constantly navigate, both mentally and physically.

With this website we introduce a novel chat service, Nebula, aimed at bringing social networking closer to what you naturally do with that outsized human brain of yours.   Nebula is a Proximity Messenger, meaning you use it to intuitively chat and socialize in social settings, using those navigation skills that perhaps took longer than Kindergarten to learn.  But Nebula isn’t limited to chat: with  Nebula’s Video Marionette feature you'll be able to share your latest YouTube finds.

And no, we don’t claim to make online socializing as comfortable as the picture below.  But we’re going to try!