Quoted: The company is adding a new tool to make it easier to share information through its online search engine and enabling users to download mini-applications, or "widgets," designed to become fixtures on a computer screen. The co-op feature also allows users to alert Google about their specific interests, like movies, restaurants and celebrity gossip, so information related to those topics appears near the top of the results page whenever they make a relevant search request. With the co-op service, users with a personal Google login will be able to label Web pages so the information can be easily found by other people, including friends, family and co-workers.

Quoted: After we dug up some interesting photos and facts from MySpace sites whose owners claim to be local athletes you may know, you said you wanted more. It just so happens that NBA players make up a sizeable chunk of the 60 million registered users. So, here's your NBA version of MySpace Mania. We don't vouch that it's really the athlete's site, but it's entertaining nonetheless.

Quoted: Wikipedia is learning that a list of numbers is not as authoritative as a Nobel laureate.

WIKIPEDIA, the free online encyclopedia, currently serves up the following: Five billion pages a month. More than 120 languages. In excess of one million English-language articles. And a single nagging epistemological question: Can an article be judged as credible without knowing its author?

Wikipedia says yes, but I am unconvinced.

Good point. It's not clear how open it will be. The site has 5 and only 5 wikis on it now and no indication of how to create new ones.