Google Reader Strangeness _#

Google Reader always was a little odd with its unread posts count - sometimes not updating its post count until I "did" something in Reader (e.g. refresh), but more recently over the last couple of days it's been quite a way out. Is anybody else experiencing this?



All the refreshing in the world won't clear those 3 "new" items, but a couple of minutes later (since starting this post) it's all back to zero again.

Google Reader comes out of Labs _#

Google Reader has officially escaped its test tube and gone into the big wild world. It's taken nearly two and a half years to do that, but the teary-eyed announcement yesterday officially moved Google Reader from its 'Labs project' status into prime time. Many would argue it did that a long time ago with or without the label. The system is already reported to carry 10TB of data, crawls some 8 million documents and grows by 4% weekly.

With the announcement localised versions of Google Reader were introduced on their respective TLDs, including reader.google.fr and reader.google.co.jp. Let's hope for many more enhancements to this already excellent application in the future.