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Quag is an interest-based social network created in Italy. On Quag, the interaction between users is generated based on the concept not of “friendship”, but of “common interest” or “affinity”. Affinity is a powerful relational force, as much as friendship, but unlike the latter, it is an area as yet unexplored on social networks. On Quag, the word “interest” covers as wide a range as possible: an interest can be a passion, a need, a problem, an area of study…on Quag we can discuss what really interests us with people who have something in common with us, who share our interests, passions, needs or problems.〔RAI, Radio 1. Eta Beta, 18 February 2014. http://www.rai.tv/dl/RaiTV/programmi/media/ContentItem-fa701b7c-2878-4eaa-86f5-a91e8ded75ad-radio1.html〕 == Features == Quag is a social network equipped with a proprietary technology, the interest graph, which is able to recognise the interests of users based on their behaviour, and to create significant connections between them. The Quag interest graph is semantic, and is thus not subject to the fragmentation of tag-based systems, or those based on folksonomy or pre-defined categories. It automatically connects people with common interests, by using three levels of connection: synonyms, related concepts and hypernyms (semantic relations linking two or more words), so Quag’s proprietary technology allows it to correlate terms such as “clothing” and “shirt”, or "futurism" and "literature".〔Il Sole 24 Ore, 21 January 2014. http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/tecnologie/2014-01-21/ecco-quag-social-italiano-che-sostiuisce-amici-gli-interessi-125644.shtml?uuid=ABvZCBr.〕 The algorithm Quag is based on also functions through connections… similar meaning areas are grouped together by means of a semantic system of synonymous or correlated concepts.〔Radio 24, Essere e Avere, 7 January 2014. http://www.radio24.ilsole24ore.com/programma/essere-e-avere/2014-01-04/puntata-speciale-ecco-trend-172808.php?idpuntata=gSLACjTXa&date=2014-01-04〕 The Quag interest graph is also able to understand what users are interested in, but also the extent of their interest in a topic, and whether their contributions on Quag to the topic indicate they are experts on it or would simply like to learn more about it. Quag uses an interaction model that is different from the traditional Questions & Answers (Q&A), with the aim of offering greater scope for interconnecting people and thus allowing them to develop complex discussions, also by using multimedia elements such as images, videos and links to web pages. Quag was created in Italian, but it is structured in such a way as to be fully functional also in other languages. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Quag」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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