King's Boy's Summly app hits the headlines

King’s boy, Nick D'Aloisio (U5th) has developed an iPhone app which has made international headlines and attracted a big investment from a Hong Kong-based billionaire.

Summly is an iPhone app which summarises and simplifies the content of web pages and search results. Currently it can condense reference pages, news articles and reviews but has the potential to go a lot further.

Launched in mid-December it clocked up 30,000 downloads in its first week and has summarised many times that number of web pages.

It is currently available as an iPhone app, and there are plans to launch Android and web versions in the New Year.

Nicholas will be appearing on BBC news at 1.30pm and 6.30pm today (Friday 6 January 2012)

Click here to see the BBC's interview with Nick.