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Summify was a social news aggregator founded by Mircea Paşoi and Cristian Strat, two former Google and Microsoft interns from Romania.〔Lewis, Rob. (Vancouver’s Summify filters the social web and raises a seed round ) ''TechVibes''. March 30, 2011.〕〔(Summify - Team ) ''Summify''.〕 The service emails its users a periodic summary of news articles shared from their social networks based on relevance and importance.〔Brillson, Leila. (Summify Distills Your News Into Five Bites of Personalized ‘Net Goodness ) ''Switched''. March 31, 2011.〕 The platform supported Twitter, Facebook, and Google Reader accounts.〔Gastall, Tom. (Summify launches, receives first round of Funding ) ''StartupGazette''. April 4, 2011.〕 Advisors to Summify include Ryan Holmes, CEO of Hootsuite and Ethan Anderson, CEO of Redbeacon.〔 ==History== In 2009, Paşoi and Strat created ReadFu, a plugin that provided a contextual summary and statistics of the target page of a hyperlink.〔(Hello World! ) ''Summify''. Dec 15, 2009.〕 In January 2010, ReadFu was accepted into the Vancouver based start-up incubator Bootup Labs.〔Mann, Boris. (New companies for Jan 2010 ) ''Bootup Labs''. Dec 18, 2009.〕 On March 20, 2010 the service was renamed as ''Summify'' and a private beta began.〔Lewis, Rob. (Bootup’s Summify renames and launches beta - 25 invites available ) ''TechVibes''. March 26, 2010.〕〔(ReadFu becomes Summify ) ''Summify''. March 20, 2010.〕〔(Summify in Private Beta ) ''Summify''. March 24, 2011.〕 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.〔Lewis, Rob. (Summify pivots into Social News Reader ) ''TechVibes''. August 25, 2010.〕〔(Hold on, Summify is back! ) ''Summify''. August 11, 2010.〕〔Cosinschi, Eugenia. (Social news-reader Summify raises funds to solve information overload ) ''VentureBeat''. August 24, 2010.〕〔(Sprouter Weekly ) ''Sprouter''. October 27. 2010.〕 After receiving feedback, the team realized that its users enjoyed the short article digests Summify sent via email.〔(Configure your Digest, Collapsed Stories and more ) ''Summify''. Dec 19, 2010. 〕 On March 22, 2011, the team announced that email digests would become the core part of the service 〔 “Our users didn't really want another news reader, another destination site to check every day” say Paşoi and Strat.〔(Less Stories, More Funding! ) ''Summify''. March 30, 2011.〕 The real-time news reader version of Summify was shut down three days later.〔(Bye Bye Summify Web, hello Web Summary! ) ''Summify''. March 22, 2011.〕 Summify released a free app on the Apple App Store July 8, 2011.〔(Summify Launches iPhone App ) ''Summify''. July 8, 2011.〕〔Lewis, Rob. (Summify launches iPhone App but will its founders stay in Canada? ) ''TechVibes''. July 8, 2011.〕 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Summify」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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