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Walk2Web - Website Connection Visualization
tnx Max!

Walk2Web is a good way of checking backlinks to your website and it can be used not only for time killing but also as useful search engine optimization tool. We were surprised to see unknown backlinks to our custom essay website http://www.professays.com.

Thanks guys!

Dim Zboryk, CEO

I found this exciting photos archive with tons of beautiful space photos using walk2web. It is amazing!

Sample screenshot:

It’s really fun using walk2web! Links are visually represented. I will now always use walk2web in checking or exploring my Paradise Philippines links.

The Internet is composed of many pages, called web pages, or websites as a whole. These pages are linked with each other through hyperlinks, that’s why it is called the world wide web (WWW). If you like surfing, blog hopping, or just jumping through links, then you will like Walk2web.

Walk2web lets your explore the web while having fun. Not really fun like playing a video game, but fun like surfing the web. It’s simple really, all you have to do is input the URL of the website you want to crawl (yeah like the spider-bots) then you will see a visual representation of the links within that site.

The interface is in full Flash mode. You can navigate through the links by clicking on its icon, or clicking the more button to show more links. If you hover your mouse cursor on one of the links, its will popup a small thumbnail preview of the website. The left panel shows an info about your site, in my case, it shows the RSS feeds from Tambayan.ph. The navigational arrows can be controlled by a mouse click or using your keyboard arrow keys. It even “speaks” out the site’s name, try entering Tambayan.ph and listen how it’s pronounced in American English.

Anyway the mini-screen on the right is where the preview image of the link you clicked shows up. There are also buttons where you can submit it to Digg, del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, Hatena, or just simply add it to your favorites. And on the left side of the panel, you can rank the currently viewed site. Although I don’t know what the Mark/Unmark as SEO-spam button does. Another note worthy feature is that users can also add tags and comments, which is nearly common in popular websites.

by Tambayan.ph

Only wanna to know, is your source some way connected with “IE StumbleUpon” “Digg It” or other. Is there sens to use them all ?

I meen if you use different way to find site , so in different systems I can find mostly different info.

by Kevin Makice

As a result of my summer internship, I’ve had to think a lot more about searching the web than I ever have. AltSearchEngines is an excellent blog that covers the search industry, in particular the hundred or so smaller sites trying to break into the top five. This afternoon, ASE posted a truly amazing site that is currently blowing my mind.

Walk2Web

Walk2Web is a new way to explore web sites from a specified starting point.

If I could imagine a search tool that combined what I love about complex networks and HCI, this would be pretty close. You type in a starting point—like http://www.blogschmog.net—and you see a page with a screenshot sample of the site and the first two levels of a search network, with sites as nodes. There are no more than six at a time, split between incoming and outgoing links with options to display more in either direction. The network grows as you explore, allowing you to make use of some simple directional tools to navigate the part of the World Wide Web you are manually crawling.

That’s just the core functionality.

The nodes are also color coded to make the network easy to differentiate between incoming links (green) and outgoing (blue). There is a complete community-driven content component that combined digg-like voting with spam prevention, tagging, and comments about the web sites. You can request a refresh of the current screenshot yourself, which means you don’t have to rely on a web crawler to routinely get it for you. You can also flag your own web walking network to allow you to find them again, either as favorites or with little green flag markers to let you see when you encounter a good site again. There is sound (which can be toggled off) that reads as you go. And there are visual cues that show you positive and negative indicators of the community. It is even interesting to just watch the front page—which they call a live sites show—as interesting sites go sliding by.

ASE describes Walk2Web as “pre-alpha,” so there are some implementation issues. The layered parts sometimes visually conflict with each other, especially as the web-walk network starts to grow. Sometimes trying to add a comment results in navigating to a new site, if I’m not careful about where I click. The pop-up information showing screenshots can visually get in the way of some of the navigation controls. I also had great difficulty just trying to get to the help links (although there is a live help feature available from the front page).

Unlike traditional search, where you start with a motivation for searching that relies on some search terms, with Walk2Web you have to know where you want to start. The entire experience and best practices change dramatically as expectations switch to one of discovery and not definitive expertise. This is a tool to find new things in ways you simply cannot with traditional search. It is not likely to be much help if you want to know the tallest mountain in Peru (unless there is a site called http://www.tallestmountaininperu.com).

There is also a browser plug-in (for Firefox and Explorer) that brings the interface to you. So if you wind up on a site that is worthy of a little walk on the Web 2.0 side, simply start the walk from there to bring up the network. The user ratings controls are also in the browser toolbox, so you can rate sites and contribute to them on the fly.

Best thing I’ve seen in a while. I hope it catches on.

http://www.blogschmog.net/archives/1227

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tnx, Kevin!

Reading blogger vietnamese site,a post promote to Walk2web.com : surfing for impressions

See Video clip First time Using Walk2web(in English)

Walk2webdotcom clip.Post page Read post-walk2web

If the Internet wasn’t a word describing a virtual world of computers, joined together in a network, how would it look like? walk2web is a really interesting website, trying to do exactly that - visualize the connections between sites, while allowing to view, review, bookmark and vote for your favorite sites. After trying it with a few sites, we found that you can find amazing connections and many interesting sites, by taking a five minutes walk, down the Internet’s lane.

http://www.diggthis.net/walking-down-the-streets-of-the-internet/

German popular portal www.medienhandbuch.de posted our site as the “found site of the week”

They understood the idea about journey, etc..

But, the main cool thing is the end of description: “With the virtual walks the sun always shines”

It’s in German, so for understanding this in English - use Google Translate.