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Calacanis Takes Position at Sequoia Capital  A company called
SimplyHeadlines launched today, calling itself a news service
“for the extremely busy.” It is a customizable news summary
delivered to your email with headlines and summary blurbs only.
SimplyHeadlines features news from thousands of online news
sources such as The New York Times, iVillage, Men’s Health,
Bloomberg, and BBC, but it also allows users to order up non-
news related information such as weather, stock quotes, comics,
etc.  Why do we need this? Do people have a hard time finding
their news online? I think this is pretty backwards thinking in
this day and age for many, many reasons.  For one, last time I
checked, you could get all of this information on any
customizable start page. And email doesn’t have the stronghold
as the most preferred method of communication that it once did.
Studies show that the younger generation is far less likely to
communicate via email than any other me