Google Gears Released, Reader Updated

Google released a new product (open-source), Google Gears that is intended to provide offline experience to the web applications like Gmail, Calendar, Docs & Spreadsheet, and Reader. Google Gears is installed as a plug-in for Firefox and is still in pre-Beta stage. Google expects Gears to be the universal platform for web applications to offer offline services to the users.


Google Reader is now the first web application that employs Google Gears to allow the users to read 2000 items offline by manually syncing the Reader. Sooner or later, it can be expected the sync will occur without user's notice and the data will be always available once the user get disconnected from the internet.




Reader also gets a new link, the Trends, which lets you view your reading pattern and discover the inactive feeds. Also, it has now got the ability to count more than 100, showing the exact unread posts instead of just 100+ when there are more than a hundred unread posts.

Until then...

Justin

{Google Reader Blog}

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