Sunday, November 11, 2012

Sixteen year old creates app for teenagers. It creates good habits for citizenship.

...London-born Nick D'Aloisio, 16, (click here) who spent some of his early 
years in Melbourne and Perth, is living back in his homeland and this week 
the whiz kid has made the most of his school's semester break, as his creation 
Summly goes live.

The app, designed for Apple's popular smartphone, condenses news 
articles into three key paragraphs that fit on an iPhone screen, reports 
British newspaper the Daily Telegraph.
Users can customise news categories and select links to original articles.
"I designed Summly because I felt that my generation wasn't consuming traditional news any more," said the teenager.