Google Reader: Welcome and look back
2010 September 13, 23:31:00 by pipedija
The Reader team was saddened to hear that Bloglines will be shutting its doors on October 1. Bloglines was a pioneer in the feed reading space, and for Web 2.0 in general.
Since Reader’s fifth anniversary is also approaching (though it feels like yesterday, Reader was launched on October 7, 2005), we thought it might be a good time to reflect on how Reader has grown over the past few years. While we were busy redesigning (twice!), making friends with Buzz and iGoogle, translating, breaking up, gossiping and playing, more and more people picked up the Reader habit. Here’s a graph of Reader users over time (where “user” is defined as someone who has used Reader at least once a week):
And as we found out this past April, Reader users sure do like to read lots of items. Here’s another graph, this time of the number of items read per day.
To all our users, new and old, thanks for making a great 5 years!
Via Google Reader
