LATimes Feedreader - The LATimes wrote to let us know they've launched a beta version of the LA Times feedreader. MyLATimes provides a Netvibes-style drag and drop interface for arranging your news stories, but you need to go to the actual webpages to read them (ie. no ability to read full stories in the reader). You can add your own feeds, but the focus is really on consuming the site's own content, in a similar fashion to MyESPN. The LATimes will soon add the ability to subscribe to an RSS feed from any article page on site, they say - presumably an "add to MyLATimes" button.
Google Librarian Central - Google launched a blog this week to help them communicate with librarians. With their book scanning plans causing some tension, they'll need to communicate better. (via)
RoR 1.2 - Ruby on Rails 1.2 is being released today.
Unlock Austin - Unlock Austin is a musical social network for bands and fans in Austin, Texas. It provides profile pages, charts, user-generated reviews, show listings, tagging and personalization. Today they announced that 20,000 people are using the site every month.
Technorati Down - Technorati has been suffering some major outages these past few days - we've had to pull some of the Technorati-powered elements from Mashable until it comes back. That said, it's only when a site goes down that you realize how useful it is.