TechCrunch article on Newsle

▤ Summary

Twitter and Facebook function as social news feeds with your friends pushing out stories they find interesting. Newsle imports your friends and contacts from Facebook and LinkedIn and shows you any news or blog posts that mention them. Newsle doesn’t pick up Tweets or status messages, rather it tries to get rid of the social noise by presenting real news. Rohit Khare and Samil Ismail launched a now-defunct company called Angstro at TechCrunch 50 in 2008. And the emphasis on public figures might help it solve the problem of infrequent news items about your friends.

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