Really interesting. I tried it with an article I wrote for Wired - both to see how it handled lengthy content with multiple points, and also how it handled my 'loose' writing style.
Stremor's TLDR:
Pointless reeling off the numbers. The challenge each of us now faces is a brand new one. Our filters were once the media, our friends, and our families. We were aware of, and understood how our filters operated. EdgeRank isn't something that Facebook users understand. Just 20 tweets out of thousands. We need better filters.
Text Teaser:
How do we create a balanced diet of content with so much junk being thrown at us?
Now, large media organisations create mountains of content, then track our reading habits and online behaviour in order to build a profile of us.
A set of favourite news groups; a list of RSS feeds; a well-curated bookmarks folder; these are all filters we once built ourselves.
The less we understand our filters, the more we will come to accept that the world they present us with is true.
The more control we have over our filters, the more we can understand what we're not seeing.
Text Teaser goes over 350 Characters which is the Established People can't sue you for stealing it limit... So also weigh that when deciding which you like better.
Yes, tried it on a couple of my own pages. Seems to work ok.
Who is going to be first to couple this library with an RSS feed reader and mailer so that I can get auto-generated summaries of recently written articles sent to my blackberry?
Personally, I find the "email me news" scheme obnoxious. I get enough emails as is it. Would prefer to see a portal that shows summaries of all the news and lets the user explore.
Once I was at the screen showing me the summary, in the right hand 'Share' column - I can't copy the text in the link, image, or embed fields. (FF4.0 on OSX 10.8.5)
Really surprised with both the quality and succinctness of the result: http://www.textteaser.com/s/t1bNud
Well done.
(Also to the project owner - copying the link is borked in Firefox, I had to type it out manually)