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| Started by | bob <bob@coolfone.comze.com> |
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| First post | 2013-03-27 08:28 -0700 |
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Summly bob <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2013-03-27 08:28 -0700
Re: Summly "James Harris \(es\)" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2013-03-27 19:55 +0000
Re: Summly rossum <rossum48@coldmail.com> - 2013-03-29 09:30 +0000
| From | bob <bob@coolfone.comze.com> |
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| Date | 2013-03-27 08:28 -0700 |
| Subject | Summly |
| Message-ID | <47493a42-e8cc-4a31-b4fe-c5cd882faa74@googlegroups.com> |
So, I guess Yahoo bought some app called Summly from some kid. Can someone help me understand this and what the app did? Did it really do any sophisticated AI? Or was there some ulterior motive behind all this? Thanks.
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| From | "James Harris \(es\)" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2013-03-27 19:55 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <kivin8$ic4$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #3201 |
"bob" <bob@coolfone.comze.com> wrote in message news:47493a42-e8cc-4a31-b4fe-c5cd882faa74@googlegroups.com... > So, I guess Yahoo bought some app called Summly from some kid. > > Can someone help me understand this and what the app did? > > Did it really do any sophisticated AI? Or was there some ulterior motive > behind all this? Apparently it is a text mining application http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_mining http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_D%27Aloisio (see the Summly section) The thing that surprises me is why a big company (with lots of clever people as resources) paid for the app rather than writing a competitor app itself. James
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| From | rossum <rossum48@coldmail.com> |
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| Date | 2013-03-29 09:30 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <dlnal8997hq5u79il41jk3g3cetereu1pj@4ax.com> |
| In reply to | #3202 |
On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 19:55:14 -0000, "James Harris \(es\)" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> wrote: > >"bob" <bob@coolfone.comze.com> wrote in message >news:47493a42-e8cc-4a31-b4fe-c5cd882faa74@googlegroups.com... >> So, I guess Yahoo bought some app called Summly from some kid. >> >> Can someone help me understand this and what the app did? >> >> Did it really do any sophisticated AI? Or was there some ulterior motive >> behind all this? > >Apparently it is a text mining application > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_mining > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_D%27Aloisio (see the Summly section) > >The thing that surprises me is why a big company (with lots of clever people >as resources) paid for the app rather than writing a competitor app itself. > >James > They were probably buying the name/audience/reputation etc. rather than the app itself. How much marketing would it have taken to generate the audience? On-line it is very important to be there first. Summly had that, while anything Yahoo could have developed never would. $0.02 rossum
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