At this year’s CES, Yahoo announced their plans for Yahoo! Mail to become a central hub for your social activity. This new Yahoo! Mail (called Yahoo! Life) will treat email addresses as social profiles, and friendships will be based on how often you communicate with your contacts. In many ways, this is what Spokeo has been doing so far, and we’re quite excited that our concept has been vindicated.
When we talk about social networks, we immediately think of MySpace, Facebook, and Friendster. What’s not obvious is that almost every website today (such as Youtube, Flickr, and Last.fm) has become a social network. They all have user profiles, messaging, sharing, and other member interactions built-in. In the past, you can only communicate within the community, but increasingly these social networks are opening up the data to enable interoperability among networks.
This data-portability movement pushes the ultimate social network - the Internet. As Spokeo has demonstrated, it does not matter where your friends are, or what social networks they use. When they post blogs and photos for you to see, you want to access it immediately in a secure manner. Information should not be constrained within certain networks; after , the free data flow is what makes the Internet so great.
Previously the Internet was just a bunch of web pages, but now it’s becoming a web of interconnected people. Hopefully one day, we can start organizing the world’s information based on not just PageRank, but also social relevancy 
译文:
网络就是个菜市场（社会化的网络）
在今年的CES（Consumer Electronics Show，消费电子产品大展）上，雅虎公布了
它的新计划：雅虎邮箱将成为个人社交活动的信息搜集中心。今后的雅虎邮箱（又叫“雅虎生活Yahoo Life”），将会把电邮地址作为一个社交的名片，而你和某个联系人的交流频度，将作为衡量你们之间友谊的标杆。老实说，这跟现在Spokeo正在做的事情在许多方面相似。
我们的理念能被人所接受，这也让我们十分激动。
在谈到社会化网络的时候，我们会立刻想到MySpace, Facebook和Friendster. 然而隐藏在这些表象之下的事实，是现在几乎所有的网站（比如Youtube, Flickr和Last.fm）都成为了社会化的网站。它们也都有用户名片、站内消息、分享和其他一些内置的用户互动功能。在过去，你只能在某个社群内部交流，但是这些社会化网站渐渐地都
开放了数据，使得网络之间可以交互操作。
这个
数据移动化的潮流，推动了互联网向它的
终极形式——社会化互联网发展。Spokeo已经证明：你的朋友在哪、用哪个社会化网站都不重要，只要他们分享了日志或者照片，你就可以即时通过安全方式看到它们。信息不应该被限制在某个网站内，毕竟，自由的数据流让互联网变得如此美妙。
先前的互联网只不过是一堆网络上的页面，但现在的互联网，正在变成一个由互相联系的人组成的大网。希望有一天，我们可以根据社会化相关度来组织信息，而不只是通过PageRank（链接流行度）。