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| DATE | 2013-10-18 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Your new enemy and trackers in cheif
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http://newsle.com/about
About Newsle
Newsle tracks people in the news.
Newsle finds articles about you, your friends and colleagues, and anyone
else you care about and notifies you minutes or hours after they're
published.
Newsle's private beta launched in January 2011, and was covered by
TechCrunch. The current version, which launched in February 2012 is a
major evolution of the original concept. Newsle combs the web
continuously, analyzing over 1 million articles each day - every major
news article and blog post published online, as well as most minor ones.
Newsle's core technology is its disambiguation algorithm, which
determines whether an article mentioning "John Smith" is about the right
person.
Newsle only indexes publicly available news articles. We do not search
for personal records, criminal records, phone numbers, addresses, or
other private information.
Newsle is funded by Advance Publications, Maveron, DFJ, Bloomberg Beta,
Transmedia Capital, Lerer Ventures, SV Angel, Launny Steffens, and
Rockwell & Evan Schnabel.
Newsle is based in San Francisco.
How It Works
• You sign up for Newsle and import your Facebook Friends or LinkedIn
contacts.
• You can choose to follow politicians, CEOs, celebrities, and other
people you're interested in.
• Newsle will track your people continuously and let you know when
they're mentioned in any news article or blog post online.
More Info
Our Vision
The web began with handles and pseudonyms, but Facebook, LinkedIn, and
Twitter set in motion the trend of using your real identity to interact
online. Using NLP and machine learning, Newsle seeks to map this real
identity to real actions, allowing you to follow the important things
your people are doing. We want you to see and be inspired by the stories
of your friends, colleagues, and role models.
The Team
Axel Hansen
Axel Hansen (co-founder) studied Computer Science at Harvard until April
2011, when he left to work on Newsle full-time. He has researched
computer security at Dartmouth, where he published papers on network
anomaly detection and smart fuzzing. In summer 2010, he was a software
engineering intern at Google, where he worked on Chrome OS.
Jonah Varon
Jonah Varon (co-founder) studied Computer Science at Harvard until April
2011, when he left to work on Newsle full-time. Previously, he founded
College FML, a humorous network of college-specific websites at
Princeton, MIT, Brown, UCSD, and elsewhere.
Chris Polk
Chris Polk (full-stack engineer) studied Computer Science at Auburn
University. His experience ranges from developing telecom firmware for
VDSL to front-end, back-end, and iOS design and development. He recently
placed in the top 5 in the world's largest hackathon (LAUNCH 2013) for
his work on the iOS app Gempad. He also works on UX Archive in his spare
time.
Liz Ekshtat-Schultz
Liz Ekshtat-Schultz (back-end engineer) has extensive experience
building large, scalable systems and application infrastructure.
Previously, she was Senior Software Developer at Rounds, where she was
responsible for cloud infrastructure and architecture development and
optimization. Prior to Rounds, Liz held engineering positions at MiXTV
and ICQ.
Paul Glootz
Paul Glootz (business development) graduated from Harvard, where he
concentrated in Economics and minored in East Asian Studies. Previously,
he held business development positions for the Paris and Boston based
startups WikiCell Designs and Aerodesigns.
We're hiring! Check out our jobs page.
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