Next Iteration of Social Software: Automated Connection Mining Software could form ad hoc social groups
This would be a very interesting functionality to emulate down the road:
IBM looks at a matrix of connections across various social platforms and tells how valuable a connection a suggested friend would be to help you manage friend requests.
A little speculation…
Next stage of the social web: development of cross-platform communities based on shared interests that are ‘discovered’ by social ‘connection mining’ software.