Our project launched

I've been telling friends for a little while that I haven't really been full time on Blogger for a while, that I am going full bore on something new we dreamt up. Finally, our project launched today and I can't believe I'm still awake - so tired. I'm going to bed now but I thought a quick chronology of today was in order:

• Announced Google Reader now on Labs at Web 2.0
• Slashdot, Metafilter and everyone and their brother visited and tried to upload all their subscriptions
• Servers became not happy (one bad seed I suspect!)
  
• Servers became happy shortly thereafter
• Lots of blog posts complain that the service is slow but it's BETTER. We swear!
• Lots of folks say nice things about it Reader in general
• Problem with some OPML imports reported
  
• Fix patched in to address issue
• Keep making it better for the foreseeable future
  

What can I say, we are flattered at the turn out. Big shout out to the engineers on the Reader team. It's been a lot of fun, and a lot of work. Can't wait to continue! More on Reader soon, must sleep.

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