Thursday, November 1, 2012

17-year-old Nick D'Aloisio launches Summly, an app that intelligently summarizes news

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What if you could summarize any news article into just a few sentences so you could more easily get a daily dose of news on the go? Well, you might end up with Circa, which launched in mid October, and converts current events into bulleted lists of important facts. It's simple to flip through news stories in Circa, since they're summarized into quotes, facts, and concise original writing from its editors.


But what if the story summaries weren't written by Circa editors, but were instead written by robots who can recognize the most important couple sentences in any article? Then you've got Summly, launching today on iPhone, for a generation of mobile news consumers even more voracious (and with shorter attention spans) than Circa's....


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