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Headquarters | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
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Area served | Worldwide |
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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] Advisors to Summify include Ryan Holmes, CEO of Hootsuite and Ethan Anderson, CEO of Redbeacon. [2]
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.
Summify released a free app on the Apple App Store on July 8, 2011. [14] [15] 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. [16]
In March 2011, Summify completed a seed round of funding from the following investors: [1] [2] [17] [18] [19]
Summify has been well received by popular websites such as TechCrunch. It has also been featured in Time, The Globe and Mail, Mashable, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, Lifehacker, and The Next Web. [12] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25]
This article contains content that is written like
an advertisement. (January 2012) |
Headquarters | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
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Area served | Worldwide |
Founder(s) |
|
Industry | |
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] Advisors to Summify include Ryan Holmes, CEO of Hootsuite and Ethan Anderson, CEO of Redbeacon. [2]
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.
Summify released a free app on the Apple App Store on July 8, 2011. [14] [15] 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. [16]
In March 2011, Summify completed a seed round of funding from the following investors: [1] [2] [17] [18] [19]
Summify has been well received by popular websites such as TechCrunch. It has also been featured in Time, The Globe and Mail, Mashable, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, Lifehacker, and The Next Web. [12] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25]