Certainly, I've found that these days, "easy to use" means "big buttons for features we think you'll use, and nearly impossible locations for features that we don't think you'll use". Which is not that easy to use for me...
Hmm, it's planar and even as a directed graph it contains cycles; most of them consist of bidirectional arrows, but there are a couple of more interesting ones (both going through Twitter and Facebook). Taken as a Markov chain, the graph is not ergodic — there are three sources and one sink. Excluding those four, however, the remainder forms a single communicating class.
(I'm assuming that the anomalous edge on the upper side of "Google Contacts" is meant to be directed to "Gmail".)
Given the cycles, the setup has promise, but I expect it is not (yet) fulfilled, in that no message can continue to circulate. The trick with such circulation would be to find a balance between activity dying out and the Sorcerer's Apprentice mode...
It's a mobile application that does IM/Skype/Twitter from your phone. I discovered it a while ago, and it's quite useful. Alas, there's no PC version, and it requires you to have data capabilities on your phone to use it (and I don't think it's available for every mobile platform either).
You need to denote (perhaps with thick borders/thin borders) which online presences do or do not require you to actively use/log into them... unless I'm missing the point and everything is run from your phone via Fring and GooSync.
You're right, not everything goes through GooSync and Fring, but the login denotation hits some snags, since, f'rex, I don't need to log in to Facebook to post updates, but I do need to log in to RSVP to Events so they'll appear on the Facebook feed that Google Calendar picks up so that GooSync can sync it with my phone. Some things I no longer log into often, but still need to login occaisionally to.
But you're right, that would probably help show the true nature of how the system automates everything...
Maybe we're going about this all wrong - maybe I just need to add a "PC" element, and just link all the sites/programs I log into with my computer that way. That'd be an easy addition to the system, really.
Well, that's pretty much already set up though, innit? I already have a Mobile Phone element there. Just maybe change the color of the arrows for links that are phone-browser-based, rather than programs.
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Date: 2008-12-15 09:28 am (UTC)j/k, this is awesome.
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Date: 2008-12-15 02:31 pm (UTC)(I'm assuming that the anomalous edge on the upper side of "Google Contacts" is meant to be directed to "Gmail".)
Given the cycles, the setup has promise, but I expect it is not (yet) fulfilled, in that no message can continue to circulate. The trick with such circulation would be to find a balance between activity dying out and the Sorcerer's Apprentice mode...
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Date: 2008-12-19 03:34 am (UTC)I like that.
(Yes, I know the icon quote is not the original)
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Date: 2008-12-19 04:03 am (UTC)Seven voice protocols in the halls of echo,
Nine text chats doomed...
One fring to rule them all, one fring to find them,
One fring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
Or maybe it's just the Fring of the Ancestors.
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Date: 2008-12-16 07:36 am (UTC)But you're right, that would probably help show the true nature of how the system automates everything...
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Date: 2008-12-16 08:00 am (UTC)Sorry being an informatics geek.
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