We've been having a blast since we soft launched the site this past fall, and we've learned a ton. 

One of the things that we've learned is that while social news sites work for geeks, who are very interested in talking about the latest changes in technology and current events, the market for a social news site geared towards financial and economic news is limited.  Our users enjoy the news that appears on Newsley, but commenting and discussing them isn't a terribly large priority for them.  

The second thing that we've learned is that there aren't that many great content filters for economic and financial news.  There are tons of sites like Bloomberg.com, the Economist, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Washington Post, etc.. that are doing a phenomenal job of writing and creating great journalism.  But these sites aren't doing a great job of filtering their articles, or providing an easy way to discover great articles on other sites.  

The final thing that we've learned from our users, is that people interested in investing, finance and economics need much better tools to sift through the firehose of financial news that is created each day.  

That's where our changes are starting.  Newsley is leaving social news behind, and we're focusing on building a real time search and recommendation engine for economic and financial news.   We're using cutting edge technologies to automatically categorize and filter news articles, and we thing you're going to find it amazingly useful.

So, we're removing a lot of things from the site, and we're completely rebuilding our back end.  There's going to be a lot more changes coming, so we'd appreciate your patience in the meantime.  A few of the more visible changes:

Thanks for using our site, and we hope you'll stop back from time to time to see what progress we're making.

Cheers,