Right now I am just working on getting it to understand "topics" such as Technology, Science, Fun Facts, Business, Politics etc. and then use those topics to create a personalized channel that pushes you updates of the "best/hottest" stuff. Right now the topics are going to map to subreddits and news sites since the category data is there. Eventually I hope to add tracking for companies(or stocks), actors/directors, and bands/artists to add to the stream.
So you could just tell it "Hey can you keep and eye on Taylor Swift for me?" and it will know thats a musical artist and give you album updates or related news. Or "Track Hugh Jackman" and it will let you know when he is in talks for a new movie or whatever.
The next step after that would be getting feedback from the user about the different articles it pushes to them and then building some kind of intelligence into that data. Or just being able to say "Hey I'd like more tech and less science, please" and it would adjust the ratio accordingly.
Yes! I'm just starting with this idea using Rails and Wit.ai but I think it could have some legs and would love to collaborate with you.
email me at seanmgrahamnj at yahoo