If you haven’t recently, take another look at Connection News. I’ve given it a few new features and much faster.

Connection News has been the best feature nobody uses. It was good in theory, but it was slow. It’s much faster now. As SilentInAWay put it:

“… [T]his afternoon, it took about a minute and a half to load this page for my interesting libraries. With this speed-up, it took several seconds to load the page the first time that I invoked it; for all subsequent loads, however, it has taken about a second. Wow!”

Connection News now tracks “newness”—putting a little “NEW” marker next to books, reviews and ratings if they’re new since the last time you looked at Connection News. To discuss the feature and suggest improvements, check out Talk.