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Social web: History, Evolution & Overview

The social web is a set of social relations that link people through the World Wide Web. The social web encompasses how websites and software are designed and developed in order to support and foster social interaction.: 5 These online social interactions form the basis of much online activity including online shopping, education, gaming and social…

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Social web topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Evolution and Overview as prominent areas in the source structure around Social web.

Related topics
80
Source areas
4
Connected nodes
84
Extracted relationships
115
Concept neighborhoods
34
Bridge connections
84

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Evolution · 30 topics
Overview · 28 topics
History · 15 topics
From the social web to real life · 7 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

History

Evolution

From the social web to real life

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Social web connects Entity context

The extracted context around Social web shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Social web → BBS, Bulletin Board System, By, Electric Minds, Email, Howard Rheingold, However, Internet, Like, On, Rheingold, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, The, The Usenet, The WELL, This, Time, Ward Christensen, Web Another extracted example is Social web → Although, ASP, Campusfood, Facebook, Furthermore, Internet, Java, MySpace, NET, Often APIs, One, PHP, Python, Ruby, The, Twitter, Web. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Social web

Top relations

related to history · 19
Social web → BBS, Bulletin Board System, By, Electric Minds, Email, Howard Rheingold, However, Internet, Like, On, Rheingold, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, The, The Usenet, The WELL, This, Time, Ward Christensen, Web
related to Evolution · 17
Social web → Although, ASP, Campusfood, Facebook, Furthermore, Internet, Java, MySpace, NET, Often APIs, One, PHP, Python, Ruby, The, Twitter, Web
related to Mobile application development · 15
Social web → APIs, Blogger, Examples, Facebook, Google Account, Mobile, Most, The, These, These APIs, TweetDeck, Twitter, Typically, Users, Web
related to Mobile connectivity support · 11
Social web → Facebook Mobile, It, Layar, Most, Orkut, Popular, SCVGR, Social, The, Twitter, YouTube
related to From the social web to real life · 10
Social web → An, At, Inc, Many, Now, Relationships, Skype, The, This, Ways
related to Blogs and wikis · 9
Social web → BBS, Blogs, Both, Internet, Members, These, Web, Wikipedia, Wikis
related to Social art · 6
Social web → Artists, Craigslist, These, Web, With, YouTube
related to Social features added to non-social sites · 6
Social web → Amazon, As, Designing, Joshua Porter, These, Web
is a · 2
Social web → set of social relations that link people through the World Wide Web, way of life
related to External links · 2
Social web → Social Web Incubator Group, W3CThe Future

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

social web users people applications interaction individuals sites online internet share blogs one information used community networking services media software

Social web relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 115 structured relationships around Social web. Examples in this analysis include Social web → is a → set of social relations that link people through the World Wide Web and Social web → is a → way of life. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Social webis aset of social relations that link people through the World Wide Web0.90text
Social webis away of life0.90text
Facebook enable peopleinstance ofSocial Networks0.80text
organizations to cinstance ofSocial Networks0.80text
Myspaceinstance ofgrowing in popularity as a concept and leading to the rise of social networking services0.80text
Facebookinstance ofThe line between social networking and social media is becoming increasingly blurred as sites0.80text
Twitter further incorporate photoinstance ofThe line between social networking and social media is becoming increasingly blurred as sites0.80text
videoinstance ofThe line between social networking and social media is becoming increasingly blurred as sites0.80text
and other functionalities typical of social media sites into users' public profilesinstance ofThe line between social networking and social media is becoming increasingly blurred as sites0.80text
just as social media sites have been integrating features characteristic of social networking services into their own online frameworksinstance ofThe line between social networking and social media is becoming increasingly blurred as sites0.80text
Wikipedia this is true even for non-membersinstance ofalthough for many blogs and Wikis0.80text
user blogsinstance ofThe site has also augmented its services by including social features0.80text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Social web bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Web, Interaction and Media. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Social web
    • Web
    • Interaction
    • Media
    • Networking
    • People
    • Sites
    • Services
    • One
    • Online
    • Share
    • Internet
    • Applications
  • social web
    • Web
    • Interaction
    • Applications
    • Media
    • Networking
    • People
    • Sites
    • Services
    • Individuals
    • One
    • Online
    • Software
  • social relations
    • Web
    • Interaction
    • Media
    • Networking
    • People
    • Sites
    • Services
    • One
    • Online
    • Share
    • Internet
    • Applications
  • world wide web
    • Applications
    • Sites
    • Individuals
    • Software
    • Users
    • One
    • Share
    • Features
    • Group
    • Mobile
    • Information
    • Time
  • software
    • Web
    • Mobile
    • One
    • Individuals
    • Internet
    • Applications
    • Real
    • User
    • Websites
    • Also
    • Available
    • Life
  • social interaction
    • Web
    • Interaction
    • Social
    • Media
    • Networking
    • People
    • Sites
    • Real
    • Services
    • Online
    • One
    • Allow
  • online shopping
    • Sites
    • Networking
    • Community
    • Time
    • Social
    • Users
    • Media
    • Services
    • Facebook
    • Mobile
    • Others
    • Web
  • social networks
    • Web
    • Interaction
    • Media
    • Networking
    • People
    • Sites
    • Services
    • One
    • Online
    • Share
    • Internet
    • Applications

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Social web, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Social web with Evolution. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Social web — Evolution · splits 54 ⟂ 31
Social web — Overview · splits 56 ⟂ 29
Social web — History · splits 69 ⟂ 16
Social web — From the social web to real life · splits 77 ⟂ 8

Map overview Semantic statistics

Social web

Nodes85
Edges84
Triples115
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.023529
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Social web to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Evolution & Overview, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Social web · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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