Excerpted from review article on The Next Web:
"Summly is a free iPhone program that has a back-end that will automatically determine what the relevant facts of a story are and convert it into consumable bites of information (aka short summaries) to give you just enough to know what’s going on.
The company was started by Nick D’Aloisio, a 16-year-old founder who some believe to be the youngest person in the world to raise venture capital.
Summly launches to the world and anyone can download it for free. All the content on the screen is formatted specifically for the respective device and you won’t have to scroll through multiple screens to get the summary — just tap and read.
When you first open Summly, you will find that there isn’t much there. You have the option of creating channels from pre-determined news topics and personal filters.
The pre-determined topics are sourced from at least 300 English-speaking feeds while the news stories under the personal filters are generated through the Microsoft Bing API.
Standard Apple device gestures are integrated into this application to allow you to move forward or back, view additional options, and much more. Articles can also be shared through email, SMS, Facebook, and Twitter.
Once you’ve set up all your pre-determined news topics and personal filters, you can set them and watch it update..."
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Via Giuseppe Mauriello, Jose H. Flores
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Are we gonna let someone else tell us what is important in a story now? Perhaps when we are busy to gather data ourselves we need to learn how to better use our time rather than sign on for a service that thinks and makes decisions for us.
How many times have your learned something that you thought might not be any interest to you then later on you find that very piece of data came in handy. There has to be room in our lives for exploration and discovery outside our own self interests. It's called livng life. imho