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I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.

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Google Reader: not for news junkies?

July 9th, 2007

Over the weekend I decided to fire up Google Reader again. (I’m still a fan of NewsFire, but now that I’m using the other GApps I’m sort of hooked on instant, painless, in-sync access from multiple machines.)

The UI is better than I remember it, but what is the deal with the message latency? At 4PM central time I took the following screenshot:

Five hours? I’m all for fetching feeds less frequently, but this delay is absurd. Is Google trying to cure my ADD?

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