Quoted: Radar Networks is testing a free, Web-based application, called Twine, that may provide some robotic secretarial help in organizing and retrieving documents.

Twine (twine.com) can scan almost any electronic document for the names of people, places, businesses and many other entities that its algorithms recognize.

Then it does something unusual: it automatically tags or marks all of these items in orange and transfers them to an index on the right side of the screen. This index grows with every document you view, as the program adds subjects that it can recognize or infer from their context.

TechCrunch coverage of Sampa

Quoted: When we covered the slate of companies helping people chronicle family stories and milestones, we left out a quiet but excellent Redmond, Washington startup called Sampa.

They aren’t new, and we’ve covered them before. The reason we left them out is that we’ve had some difficulty in categorizing them.

It’s a good site, and one of many startups that are doing a lot on very little capital - the company has raised just $310,000.

One reason why Faves is better .... (and related to why I suggested a while back why you might want two tiers of friends)

Quoted: I was struck Wednesday reading Louise Story’s article on Facebook’s new service which would allow users of the social networking site to broadcast ads to their so-called “friends.” I think this new advertising push is going to redefine friendship on Facebook.

Here’s why. When my best friend Kathy calls me to say I should rush to Nordstrom because cashmere sweaters are on sale, I trust her because she knows what I like. But that’s not necessarily so among “friends” on Facebook who are oftentimes better described as acquaintances.

Quoted: A new company, LifeAt.com, is putting a local spin on social networking, creating password-protected Web sites for apartment buildings and housing developments.

Article on social networking sites and the relatively few people who influence what's on them.

Quoted: This winter, many parents across the country are sitting on the floor with slabs of cardboard, box cutters and special rivets, and building pirate ships ...

THE FULL WSJ.com ARTICLE IS ONLY AVAILABLE TO SUBSCRIBERS.

Quoted: Every day, millions of people find answers on Wikipedia to questions both trivial and serious. Jack Herrick found his business model there.

Quoted: Advertising-based wiki sites are beginning to take their place alongside blogs and social networking sites as a staple of Silicon Valley business plans.

Intersting concept. Not a wiki. I know the founder.

Quoted: MuGeum - a site to explore and create museums consisting of exhibits that can be located by their geographic coordinates (latitude, longitude and altitude). GPS, Global Positioning System, Orienteering.

From Mike

Quoted: LibraryThing catalogs your books online, easily, quickly and for free. Enter what you're reading or your whole library—it's an easy, library-quality catalog. Because everyone else is doing it too, LibraryThing connects you with people who read the same things.

Quoted: New social-networking and content-sharing sites abound. But how much copycatting can the Web sustain before the boom becomes a bubble?