The Hypergene MediaBlog reports on the beta release of a new news site in Heard it on the Newsvine: First impressions

Newsvine offers a refreshing philosophy that has been missing in online news sites: Let the story not be an end in itself but a starting point for conversation and aggregation of content and different perspectives.

Near the end, they also point to a another review over at Solution Watch.

My first attempts at using Newsvine will be at: http://onecog2many.newsvine.com/ where I noted Gary Will's post breaking the recent news of Reqwireless being bought by Google.