By: Nicky

If getting news alerts in your email inbox were a drug, I might qualify as a junkie. On a day-to-day basis, I get messages concerning the weather, the environment, the election, places to travel far and wide, an update on what’s going on in Silicon Valley, and yes, info on my favorite guilty pleasure, MTV’s The Hills (I would like to think that it takes a special kind of woman to admit to this particular interest on her first Kosmix blog post).

I also search the web, proactively seeking out stories that my alerts missed in my quest to get my daily dose of domestic and global news. I dutifully track down the stories that matter to me, day, after day, after day, after…well, you get the gist.

So here’s a question – why does getting my news work this way? Why does it require me to search for my interests online or clutter up my email inbox in the process? Sure, I am willing to go the extra mile for my news right now, spending the time necessary to track down what’s most important to me, but some days I’m too busy and some days, I just don’t feel like doing all that work.

In a perfect world, the latest information would come directly to me in a tidy package comprised of a killer UI and a console that allowed me to manage all of my interests easily. In the same way I pick up the phone and the dial tone signals that it’s ready to connect me to all of the people in my life, there could be a place online that would connect me to all of my news interests. Not just the big headlines, although I would certainly find those there too, but also the niche ‘nano-interests’ that belong solely to me.

I would love to tell you that this idea, a sort of ‘personalized news dial tone,’ was mine, and popped easily into my head one morning as I headed to work. Really it belongs to a team here at Kosmix that is developing a product that will meet all of the needs I have just detailed.

Interested in the concept and how it connects to other Kosmix properties like RightHealth, RightAutos, and RightTrips? Stay tuned – Kosmix is working on bringing your world, to you, just the way you like it (and because we’re nice people, MTV’s The Hills is strictly optional).