How does Buddy work?
Man’s best friend may fetch your paper every morning, but Buddy will fetch a dozen newspapers, clip out summaries of the top stories, stock quotes, sports scores, weather data and comics you want and paste them together into an uber-newspaper. If your dog tried this, you’d end up with one shredded newspaper, some angry neighbors and shop keepers and a perplexed vet who can’t figure out how your dog managed to glue his mouth shut. Buddy accomplishes the feat by visiting popular Web sites and downloading files for you. Since he’s not rendering each page, downloading Flash ads, negotiating cookies and putting up with lame JavaScripts, he can download files much faster than you would in your browser. He strips out all the stuff you don’t want and builds a personalized newspaper for you every time you run him.
