So, how about this for an answer: I'm the founder of http://Newsley.com http://Newsley.com, and we're pivoting away from being a financial social news site.

So, how about this for an answer: I'm the founder of http://Newsley.com http://Newsley.com, and we're pivoting away from being a financial social news site. We're doing a lot of semantic web using OpenCalais, and we're building the engine to process a bazillion financial news articles in real time and use semantic meta data as a basis for a search and recommendation service. If you want to see some of the semantic stuff we're doing click on the discuss link for any article: http://newsley.com/articles/one-tenth-of-all-us-banks-on-the-fidcs-list-of-problem-institutions-in-the-first-quarter/2154 http://newsley.com/articles/one-tenth-of-all-us-banks-on-the.... Those entities are all automatically extracted. It's pretty basic, but there's a lot more cool stuff we're planning. We're waiting to pursue funding until we apply to YC this fall. I'm sure we'll be hiring early engineers within the next 9 months or so... ping me: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=iamelgringo http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=iamelgringo