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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?

[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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[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.