TrustFlow (networking meme)

[cellio]

Interesting. I tried out "TrustFlow", which assesses your "friends" list and their lists and so on and nominates people who are popular among your friends but not directly your friends. Their model is that friend = trusted party (not a safe bet with LJ, but what can you do?), and each person distributes "trust points" evenly among his friends, and after you run this a few levels out you start to get a picture. (Algorithm description.) (I found out about this from dragontdc.)

I recognize many of the names on my list, which isn't surprising. What is surprising is that I don't recognize the top scorer and we have only one friend in common. I'm curious about that.

Here are the results (with their canned text):

I tried out TrustFlow II for LiveJournal. The following people not on the friends list for cellio are close by:

• likesgadgets (350 - 400)
• fiannaharpar (400 - 450)
• chanaleh (550 - 600)
• mg4h, jdulac (600 - 650)
• siobhan1214, lordandrei (700 - 750)
• alexx_kay, giselle0002 (750 - 800)
• tapuz, wanderingpixie, laurens10, lstrobel (800 - 850)
• chrismaverick, persis, nrivkis, pryder, nineweaving (850 - 900)
• l33t_dreams, sundaygray, batyatoon, folkmew, mnemex, papersky (900 - 950)
• demonlurking, cyano, jeremiahblatz, ka3ytl (950 - 1000)
• negothick, peaches57, cadhla, max1975, house_elf, drakemonger, rufinia, blk (1000 - 1050)
• gootmu, beststephi, greenpear, elfwanderer, filkertom, gorgeousgary, jeliza, antoniseb, sdelmonte, fabrisse (1050 - 1100)
• northbard, jd7a, jtdiii, jhitchin, cristovau, ladysprite, teddywolf (1100 - 1150)
• cheshire23, cheshyre, trektone, rubylou, mikoy, landsknecht_po, tytso, zencuppa, redaxe, maedbh7, liamstliam, patoadam, loupnoir (1150 - 1200)
• jeanome, tootsiepop0204, iamzaphod, bess, catalana, joecoustic (1200 - 1250)
• learnedax, jarethsgirl, sylke, jcreed, otherdeb (1250 - 1300)
• rmitz, johno, telynor, theferrett, motogrrl, kaote (1300 - 1350)
• billroper, allisona, catsittingstill, jecklar, vitriol120, baal_kriah, peripsol93, dreda, suecochran, danitapgh, maya_a (1350 - 1400)
• elizabear, atreyukin, museinred, muskrat_john, talyamalka, vettecat (1400 - 1450)

Created by ciphergoth; hosted by LShift.

TrustFlow II: Who is closest to your friends list?

Comments

[cellio]

The site worked for me on the first try, so I didn't notice anything. Now it seems to be more erratic.

Thanks for the pointer to the LJ tool. I remembered something like that but had forgotten where it was (and, for that matter, that it was working; I think at one point they took it down due to database load).

[profane-stencil.livejournal.com]

It probably started slowing down when several of us read your post and rushed off to try it!