Summify
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| Headquarters | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
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| Area served | Worldwide |
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| URL | summify |
| Current status | Discontinued |
Summify was a social news aggregator founded by Mircea Paşoi and Cristian Strat, two former Google and Microsoft interns from Romania.[1][2] The service emailed its users a periodic summary of news articles shared from their social networks based on relevance and importance.[3] The platform supported Twitter, Facebook, and Google Reader accounts.[4]
History[edit]
In 2009, Paşoi and Strat created ReadFu, a plugin that provided a contextual summary and statistics of the target page of a hyperlink.[5] In January 2010, ReadFu was accepted into the Vancouver-based start-up incubator Bootup Labs.[6] On March 20, 2010 the service was renamed as Summify and a private beta began.[7][8][9]
On August 11, 2010 Paşoi and Strat announced a new direction for the service. It would become a real-time social news reader that aggregates incoming news from social networks and displays articles by importance using social reactions.[10][11][12][13] After some feedback that the users preferred article digests by email more than the real-time news reader version, Summify discontinued the news reader version.[citation needed]
In March 2011, Summify completed a Seed round, with investors including Rob Glaser, Accel Partners, and Stewart Butterfield.[1][2][14][15][16]
Summify received coverage from various news and media outlets such as TechCrunch. It has also been featured in Time, The Globe and Mail, Mashable, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, Lifehacker, and The Next Web.[12][17][18][19][20][21][22]
Summify released a free app on the Apple App Store on July 8, 2011.[23][24] The app allows users to consume their web summaries from iOS mobile devices.
Summify was acquired by Twitter on January 19, 2012. The service shut down on June 22, 2012.[25]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Lewis, Rob (March 30, 2011). "Vancouver's Summify filters the social web and raises a seed round". TechVibes. Archived from the original on April 1, 2011.
- ^ a b "Summify Team". Summify. Archived from the original on January 8, 2018.
- ^ Brillson, Leila. Summify Distills Your News Into Five Bites of Personalized ‘Net Goodness Switched. March 31, 2011.
- ^ Gastall, Tom (April 4, 2011). "Summify launches, receives first round of Funding". StartupGazette.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Hello World!". Summify. December 15, 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Mann, Boris (December 18, 2009). "New Companies for Jan 2010". Bootup Labs.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Lewis, Rob (2021-11-29). "Bootup's Summify renames and launches beta - 25 invites available". TechVibes. Archived from the original on April 2, 2016.
- ^ "ReadFu becomes Summify". Summify. Archived from the original on April 1, 2010.
- ^ "Summify in Private Beta". Summify. Archived from the original on April 3, 2010.
- ^ Lewis, Rob. Summify pivots into Social News Reader TechVibes. August 25, 2010.
- ^ "Hold on, Summify is back!". Summify. Archived from the original on August 15, 2010.
- ^ a b Cosinschi, Eugenia. Social news-reader Summify raises funds to solve information overload VentureBeat. August 24, 2010.
- ^ "Sprouter Weekly". Sprouter. October 27, 2010.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Less Stories, More Funding!". Summify. Archived from the original on April 2, 2011.
- ^ Lewsi, Rob (August 24, 2010). "Vancouver's Summify lands seed round from W Media Ventures". TechVibes. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016.
- ^ Cook, John. Ex-Microsoft and Google interns launch Summify, with cash from Rob Glaser and others GeekWire. March 30, 2011.
- ^ McMillan, Graeme.Exhausted by Social Media? Let Summify Read the Internet for YouTime Techland. March 31, 2011.
- ^ Friesen, Joe (July 7, 2011). "Immigrant tech stars face hurdles in quest to start business in Canada". The Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on July 11, 2011.
- ^ Kessler, Sarah (March 30, 2011). "Overwhelmed By News? Summify Picks The Top 5 Articles You Should Read". Mashable. Archived from the original on April 23, 2011.
- ^ Chan, Casey. Summify Gives You 5 Articles to Read a Day Based on Your Internet Reading Habits Gizmodo. March 30, 2011.
- ^ Gordon, Whitson. Summify Sends You the Day’s 5 Most Important Stories, Based on Your Reading Habits Lifehacker. April 1, 2011.
- ^ Hussey, Tris. Catch Up On the News With Summify. We Have Invite Codes! The Next Web. October 24, 2010.
- ^ "Summify Launches iPhone App". Summify. Archived from the original on July 11, 2011.
- ^ Lewis, Rob (July 8, 2011). "Summify launches iPhone App but will its founders stay in Canada?". TechVibes.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Bishop, Bryan (24 May 2012). "Summify going offline June 22nd; accounts tied to Twitter will receive daily summary emails". The Verge. Retrieved 17 July 2012.