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Slight tangent, there was a kid (maybe 15?) a while back doing an automated content summariser for mobile and he was all over the tech sites for being incredibl

Slight tangent, there was a kid (maybe 15?) a while back doing an automated content summariser for mobile and he was all over the tech sites for being incredible after getting an investment, but I can't for the life of me remember the name and I want to see his project again. Does anyone recall his name or the company? All I can remember is a chinese (maybe russian) firm invested in him and he was young. edit: found it! "Summly", looks like their site is down :(

n1c 14y ago
Seems to just be down because of an upgrade: https://twitter.com/Summly https://twitter.com/Summly
- Hates_ 14y ago
  13 weeks is a long time for an upgrade.
louischatriot 14y ago
Yep, the kid is named Nick d'Aloisio. We think his take on the problem is interesting but we believe algorithmic summarization will not be able to produce summaries that are good enough. He says he is currently working in stealth mode and will launch a product soon, and you can be sure we will be among the first to test it to see if our hypothesis is correct :)
eli 14y ago
If you want to play with automated summarization yourself, check out the libots library. It's neat to play with, but the quality of the results varies pretty widely.