Patent ID: 8276079

Claim:
A method of a computing device providing a user with a web-browser supplement, comprising: obtaining, by the computing device, access to a focal group of a focal group server through a network connection, the focal group comprising at least one member having at least one association with the user, wherein the focal group comprises a restricted group of people who are associated based on activity or topic; obtaining, by the computing device, information associated with the at least one member having relevance to the focal group, wherein the information is ranked by a level of importance, wherein the rank by the level of importance of the information is based on at least one of a member rank on a relevant topic, a level of affinity between the user and each member, a level of expertise of each member, a level of performance of past information provided by each member, a level of proficiency of each member; adaptively updating, by the computing device, the information associated with the at least one member having relevance to the focal group based on web browsing of the user; and supplementing web browsing, by the computing device, of the user by providing information of the members of the focal group, wherein the supplementing the web browsing comprises executing a plug-in loaded on the computing device, wherein the plug in provides overlaying of the ranked information associated with the at least one member on a web page displayed on the computing device that is related to information of the web page, comprising manipulating the information of the web page based on the ranked information.