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In recent weeks, the media is having a field day with Marissa Mayer’s most recent acquisition of the 6-person Summly team out of the UK. With a teenage cofounder, it looked initially like Yahoo had acquired a great new technology, or perhaps a stellar team. But as word comes out<\/a> that only 3 of the team members<\/a> will be joining Yahoo, doubts about the $30 Million acquisition have begun to arise. While it seems now that it must be a technology – or, as NPR<\/a> called it, a math acquisition – some say that the algorithms that power summaries like the ones provided by Summly are just not right, and that it requires a human touch to get right.<\/p>\n One such critic is tl;dr<\/a>, a Paris-based company which recently got accepted into Seedcamp<\/a>, which provides a platform to allow internet users to provide “tl;dr versions” of articles (that is: “too long; didn’t read”). The user-generated summaries can be viewed via a Chrome Web App<\/a>\u00a0which allows you to quickly see if any given web page contains a summary, as well as to click and see the summary itself. Through its curated summaries, tl;dr CEO Stanislas Marion<\/a>\u00a0hopes to summarize the internet, one page at a time.<\/p>\n I first met Stan last year at Index Ventures’ rooftop party on the Criteo Paris office<\/a>, and initially I was skeptical; however, I’ve been using the application for quite some time – not so much as a summarizer but as a consumer of summaries – and I’m starting to see the value. While the company is going to have a long haul to hit critical mass and begin seeing the summaries flowing in on a daily basis, Stan says the company has been growing 10% per week since the beginning of the year, and 25% since the Summly acquisition.<\/p>\n Stan argues that, while taking ‘smart snippets’ of text might pull the most relevant keywords out of a given article, it’ll never provide as much value as someone who took the time to read the article, and can paraphrase something to a much-more understandable summary. I for one would be happy to see some sort of tl;dr WordPress plugin that would let blogs automatically generate their tl;dr versions – after all, the writers themselves might be best fitted to give a tl;dr version of their own rants.<\/p>\n It seems that Stan isn’t the only one thinking like this – Om Malik’s recent blog post on Data Darwinism<\/a>\u00a0discusses the same topic and even gives mention to tl;dr themselves.<\/p>\n With notable users like New York author and activist Clay Shirky<\/a>\u00a0creating summaries like this one<\/a>, it may just be a matter of time before tl;dr adds a whole new, summarized layer to the internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In recent weeks, the media is having a field day with Marissa Mayer’s most recent acquisition of the 6-person Summly team out of the UK. With a teenage cofounder, it looked initially like Yahoo had acquired a great new technology, or perhaps a stellar team. But as word comes out that only 3 of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":11479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[9216,8708],"class_list":["post-11437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-finance","tag-curation-en","tag-yahoo-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}