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kirby1024 ([personal profile] kirby1024) wrote2008-12-15 07:19 pm
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A few more programs and my social networking sites will run themselves!

Well, for funsies, I decided to try mapping out the connections between my online presences.


Online Control Flow

And yet, for all how immensely complicated it looks, it works like a dream once it's all set up...

[identity profile] ltempt.livejournal.com 2008-12-15 08:45 am (UTC)(link)
Looks nice. What did you use to build the diagram?
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[identity profile] kirby1024.livejournal.com 2008-12-15 08:46 am (UTC)(link)
A Pirated copy of SmartDraw. Very fun software, once you figure out what it means by "Simple to use"...

[identity profile] ltempt.livejournal.com 2008-12-15 08:53 am (UTC)(link)
I'm wary of most things that claim to be "Simple to use"!
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[identity profile] kirby1024.livejournal.com 2008-12-15 09:06 am (UTC)(link)
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...

[identity profile] danielrh.livejournal.com 2008-12-15 09:28 am (UTC)(link)
You really don't have enough to do at work, do you...

j/k, this is awesome.
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[identity profile] kirby1024.livejournal.com 2008-12-15 01:23 pm (UTC)(link)
heh, this was not work-time. This is stuff I do to relax. I have pointed out that charts and graphs are like crack to me, yeah?

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_sabik_/ 2008-12-15 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
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...


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[personal profile] jeshyr 2008-12-19 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
You are sick and twisted.

I like that.

(Yes, I know the icon quote is not the original)

[identity profile] mauvedragon.livejournal.com 2008-12-16 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
What's Fring?
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[identity profile] kirby1024.livejournal.com 2008-12-16 07:33 am (UTC)(link)
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).

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_sabik_/ 2008-12-19 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
Three video protocols for the sky-clad calls,
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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[identity profile] designadrug.livejournal.com 2008-12-16 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
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.
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[identity profile] kirby1024.livejournal.com 2008-12-16 07:36 am (UTC)(link)
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...

[identity profile] designadrug.livejournal.com 2008-12-16 08:00 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe scale the border width by how much you need to login? Or denote the automated *Processes* differently.

Sorry being an informatics geek.
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[identity profile] kirby1024.livejournal.com 2008-12-16 11:52 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] designadrug.livejournal.com 2008-12-17 06:42 am (UTC)(link)
mmmm but what about ones you access via your phone?
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[identity profile] kirby1024.livejournal.com 2008-12-17 07:25 am (UTC)(link)
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.