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JPKab on March 26, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Summly deal makes no sense

As someone who isn't remotely jealous for the kid (I'm happy for him actually), let's not pretend that he is an innovator. It's a link aggregator app, no different than pulse or others. In fact, the difference from Pulse is that its inferior, because it displays far less at a time. But that is my opinion, and I'm sure a lot of older folks like it better BECAUSE it displays less.

Kid: Go for it dude, and good luck.

Yahoo: WTF?? Why not just build your own version of this?

cbs on March 26, 2013 [–]

let's not pretend that he is an innovator

C'mon, this can't be the first time you've noticed that "innovation" has been overused to the point of meaninglessness in tech. "Disruption" doubly so. Don't harp on this kid, he is no less innovative than 95+% of "innovation" I've heard about in the last year.

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