Courtesy of Thomas Vander Wal's interesting blog
post titled: Explaining the Granular Social Network, I found a nice
video that highlights the Who + What you know aspect of Social
Networking ad the GGG in general.
As I can't quite remix Videos on the spur of the moment (yet), I
would encourage you to watch the video and then click on the link
to my FOAF Profile, then follow the "Linked Data" tab to see how Linked Data oriented platforms (in my case
OpenLink Data Spaces) that exist today
actually deliver what's explained in the video.
"What You Know" (Data & Friend Networks) ultimately trumps
"Who You Know" (Friend only Networks). The exploitation power of
this reality is enhanced exponentially via the Linked Data Web once the implications of beaming
SPARQL queries down specific URIs (entry
points to Linked Data graphs) become clearer :-)