I made a similar site a year or so ago called synopit.com but that relied on user generated content rather than algorithmic summarizers. I had some good tract

I made a similar site a year or so ago called synopit.com but that relied on user generated content rather than algorithmic summarizers. I had some good traction early on, covered by readwriteweb and a few other decent publications. Me and a buddy were generating most of the content, usually of popular stories on reddit or digg, to which we would link in the comments. That generated a good amount of traffic, but we kind of got busy and then let the idea fall by the way side. I still think user generated content is the way to go. A good example is this summary posted in the comments of the Ars Technica review of the Windows 7 phone: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1818782 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1818782 - that kind of summary just can't be programmatically generated (yet, anyway). I'm glad tlrd.it is having such early success, it kind of validates the market for me and may inspire me to pursue my idea further.