The fine folks of the Google Reader team came up with a solution for my issue with “likes”. Now there’s an option to only see them from people you follow. Well, since I don’t follow anyone in Reader, this is effectively an off switch for me. Which is just fine and dandy.
In other feed reader news, NewsGator shutdown NewsGator Online it’s webbased feed aggregator. Not exactly earthshaking given their current market focus. However on a more interesting note, their desktop clients, including NetwNewsWire, now synch with Google Reader.