...(an asymmetric relation) to things on the internet
You mean a link? ;)
With regards to your other points, I do think the general premise of the post is correct that the pendulum is swinging back (?) towards more flexible data structures (e.g. graphs).
The writing does come across as though the author just had an epiphany ... hey... these things are all graphs...
Social Graph is (or graphs in general are) the buzzword of the day, or perhaps year. It's not surprising that everything is being phrased in terms of it.
You mean a link? ;)
With regards to your other points, I do think the general premise of the post is correct that the pendulum is swinging back (?) towards more flexible data structures (e.g. graphs).
The writing does come across as though the author just had an epiphany ... hey... these things are all graphs...
Yeah, and so are lots of other things.