It's based on mutual "friend" relationships: tiers of people who are all on each others' friendlists. So: the less central and large, the fewer and less incestuous the mutual friendings are.
To quote from the geek-friendly "how does it work" page, Nodules of Doom: http://www.livejournal.com/community/lj_research/2369.html The Secret Sauce of LJ MindMap is the detection of mutual friendship relationships. If you and I are friends, and we both are also friends with Joe, that's six friend bits, no mere accident, and what my friend zeet called an 'unconscious psychological organization
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To quote from the geek-friendly "how does it work" page, Nodules of Doom:
http://www.livejournal.com/community/lj_research/2369.html
The Secret Sauce of LJ MindMap is the detection of mutual friendship relationships. If you and I are friends, and we both are also friends with Joe, that's six friend bits, no mere accident, and what my friend zeet called an 'unconscious psychological organization ( ... )
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