Our popular Arc90 lab experiment, Readability, original built in plain ol’ Javascript (open source and available here) has been ported to other programming languages as well.

Nirmal Patel ported Readability to Python (source here). It powers his ridiculously sweet Hack et al, a full-content RSS view of articles pointed to by Hacker News. Yesterday, we got word from Keyvan Minoukadeh that he’s ported Readability to PHP.

If anyone else has built their own flavor of Readability, be sure to let us know by emailing us or pinging us on Twitter at @arc90.

We’re trying to make sure our already-bloated ego’s are kept in check as the praise for Readability continues to roll in. Many of us here at Arc90 use it all the time and we’re glad it’s made reading on the Web more enjoyable.

Today, we’re happy to announce an important update to Readability. At the top left corner, you’ll find three buttons that make the Readability experience even better. You can now reload a page, print a page and send a page’s link to others in just a couple of clicks.

One note about privacy and security. We will not be keeping logs of your sent emails and corresponding notes and we will never share your emails with anyone. You can view the source code behind this release (tagged 0.4.1) in Google Code. Readability is an open source project.

To install this update, all you have to do is.nothing! Just keep using Readability the way you always have. We hope you find this update as useful as we do.