Sounds really similar to my last startup and I'm glad to see it. There hasn't been a good solution so far to making news relevant to you without making you search all day for it. NLP, Machine Learning, smart news alerts, etc., can all make some interesting solutions to these problems without needing to be perfect. Also, mainstream news is the least socially connected news source out there and there is a lot of work to be done in this space.
Woven sounds like a Gist competitor to me (like we indirectly were), but I felt like Gist transformed into a plaxo type company in recent months rather than news intelligence so I'm not so sure anymore. At any rate, I look forward to seeing Woven grow!