I used Pointcast for a long time. Was a pretty good product, if I remember right. But it had the same old problem, too much noise and newsless news.

I've simply gotten in the habit now of checking a few web sites regularly that I find post news items that I deem newsworthy. Of course, I need to go out and load the pages to see the news and I end up checking the sites more often than they change. I'd love to have a ticker that told me when the page changed and what headlines changed.

The utility I'm thinking about would do just that and would allow you to click on a headline to go to the originating page. All very simple, of course, but I haven't seen it done right yet.