First off, good luck young man! You've built something and attracted people to your work, and it's paying off. Additionally, you realized your own limitations

First off, good luck young man! You've built something and attracted people to your work, and it's paying off. Additionally, you realized your own limitations and used the resources provided to build a better product by hiring skilled developers and engineers, that should be commended. Now. The algorithm works by selecting words from a given article to build a summary that will perfectly fit onto the screen of your iPhone--no more scrolling to read or waiting to load. I have a serious problem with this. On The Verge he made the statement that the activity of scrolling was "horrific"[1]. Why? This is mainly personal bias-as someone who carries serious nerdboners for long-form journalism-but I don't think the problem with news on mobiles is something you solve by shrink wrapping content so you don't have to move your finger a few inches on an iPhone. IMO the problem with reading content on mobile has already been addressed by XKCD [2]. I have no problem with D'Aloisio wanting to change media for the better, to make it more accessible, easier to digest and syndicate written content. I do have reservations however about algorithmically summarizing news articles because of a perceived notion that there is something wrong with reading long articles. Again, this is personal opinion. --- [1] http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/1/3583720/summly-nick-d-aloisio http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/1/3583720/summly-nick-d-aloi... [2] http://xkcd.com/869/ http://xkcd.com/869/