Newsle.com is a new site designed to “track news stories about your friends and professional contacts across the web”. Do you have friends who frequently make the news? If you're like millions of Americans, you really don't, which is why Newsle encourages you to also start following public figures. Of course, you'll most likely follow public figures who interest you already on news websites like CNN or Time.com.

So think of what you are handing over to Newsle. In order to use their site, you have to connect your Facebook or Linkedin account. In other words, you have to hand over access to your networks and your news interests, as well as information on friends who are the biggest interests/influencers in your life. You are literally trading access to your soul for a slightly more convenient way to find out information on Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi.

Can this service be valuable to anyone? Yes. Say you work in the news industry or have a lot of friends who do. Hence, many of your contacts and professional aquaintences are appearing in, or creating, news stories. Some of them you need to track, but since they'e all in the news field, they know the value of information and are either updating their Facebook statuses constantly or hardly at all. Newsle can offer you a new and effective way of keeping tabs on all of these friends so that you can send them congratulatory cards, make comments, and be there to help on their bad days.

Is this a service that would add value to your life?