[TeeWEE]

From the looks of the website, the video and what the apps does, it looks like the idea got too much funding.

Cmo'n they even have a famous person in their clip!

Most news sites already give a summary in an RSS feed. This is most of the time sufficient.

I think that a good idea should sell itself, not with all this fancy pancy.

-- Facts: 17 year developer got a $250.000 funding http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/12/17/meet-the-16-year-old-w...

[orofino]

As a nerd I find much of the daily news to be rather trying. Much of it is of little interest and impact on my day to day life. I send a lot of time reading about technology and developments in our industry and almost no time on regular news.

That said, as someone who likes to be well rounded, I think this is a woefully inadequate state for myself. I'd like to be aware of what is happening in the world, financially, politically, and internationally. I yearn for a concise distillation of the torrent of news that most sites provide. I don't have time for nor desire to read all of that.

Right now I've got the following in my feed reader to try and fulfill this:

http://www.themorningnews.org/ - two times daily, kind of a lot of content, no summarization just links http://evening-edition.com/ - dialy, summaries of 4-6 of the days top news, I like this very much http://thebrief.io/ - tech oriented top news, seems to be delivered somewhat irregularly

I'm not overly happy with this, I might like a second take from an alternate source similar to the evening edition. The brief is delivered somewhat irregularly and I find the morning news to be just generally lacking, but enjoy some of the frivolous fun that they have with it. Perhaps an evening edition that has a little fun... hmm.

Given all of this, I'm quite interested in this service.

[nostrich]

Sorry to drive this off topic. I run The Brief, and to date I've published every week day by 10am, with the exception of two days where I had to delay it to later in the day due to a hurricane doing its best to destroy my city. What is it about that schedule you find irregular? I welcome any feedback. Feel free to email me (the address is listed on the site).

[brador]

Orofino, I run http://skimfeed.com. It's a news dump site, currently in beta. Give it a shot.

[BruceIV]

It looks like the 17-year-old got enough funding to hire a proper AI/NLP lab to do his algorithm - reading between the lines, it's difficult to say how much input the founder had on the new product: my guess would be concept, maybe design, and possibly interface coding.

[hu_me]

yes it appears the tech was done by SRI. still doesnt take away from the idea and execution though.

http://gigaom.com/2012/10/31/summly-wants-to-make-news-summa...

[BruceIV]

Fair. I know just enough AI to realize that this is a hard problem, so the whole news-friendly "genius self-taught teenager builds awesome app in his spare time" seemed a bit incredible - I still wouldn't want to be competing against this kid for a job, though, he's impressively smart.

[ot]

Agree on everything, just wanted to point out that Stephen Fry said he wasn't paid: https://twitter.com/stephenfry/status/264066858225905664