9. The method of claim 7 , wherein the calculation of the affiliation score for a user comprises: harvesting, by the broker service, a variety of user attributes from a plurality of authoritative data providers through directed queries for the user, wherein the user attributes include information across personal, social, professional, and enterprise categories; sending an invite to the user to accept an affiliation request from a registered acquaintance for consent to establish an affiliation; notifying the registered acquaintance of the initiation of the affiliation request to the user, wherein the notification is sent as an email, text, or phone message to the registered acquaintance; constructing, by the broker service, a directed graph to represent entities as nodes and relationships as links using the user attributes and affiliations; traversing, by the broker service, the directed graph to calculate a plurality of component scores for the user based on a static or dynamic score type and a score calculus, wherein the score calculus is a discrete value, a ranking equation, a weighted equation, or a multi attribute function; and calculating the affiliation score for the user using a weighted equation based on the component scores.
10. A method of claim 9 , wherein the harvesting of user attributes from a data provider is performed by issuing directed queries to retrieve a specific set of attributes for a user and/or organization entity.