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anybody remember Summly[0] from a decade ago? > Yahoo has announced that it will be acquiring Summly, a startup that aims at summarizing web content into a dig
by rchaud 4y ago
anybody remember Summly[0] from a decade ago?
> Yahoo has announced that it will be acquiring Summly, a startup that aims at summarizing web content into a digestible format more fit for mobile devices.
In a nutshell, what Summly does is let you pick your news sources from a set of pre-packaged categories or your favorite website. From there the app will show you the latest stories summarized in up to 400 characters and presented in a cleanly designed interface.
I don't think this did any damage to the news publishing industry. Article summaries have existed forever: most of the free blogosphere does anything besides add their 2 cents to stories broken by the larger news outlets.
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