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Joined 2 years ago on Feb 18, 2009
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Started 1 project, 0 are complete.
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Tinyurl but for content

Yeah, this project definitely could be done in a couple hours; The budgeting was kinda done "in a vacuum", and includes launching the site, gathering feedback and iterating a bit. Synopt.it is too terse, it's no better than the titles of the articles. I'm looking for something "hacker news comment" length... which is now a unit of measurement.


Tinyurl but for content

While I really want to help / co-ordinate this project, I'm moving from Mountain View to San Francisco this weekend, and will have limited / no availability.


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Tinyurl but for content
Estimated time: 24 hours
A tl;dr service: map urls to short (2-4 sentence) descriptions of the concepts on that page. Summaries would be creatable/editable with wiki-like semantics. If I'm already skimming 10-20 urls a day, why not let me skim 100 summaries only to ...
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