[kgroll]

I was really hoping for a widget to be included with this.

Are there any third party readers that include that functionality?

[OEP]

Newsroom does... kind of. It places an icon of a designated feed on your home screen and shows how many unread items you have. It's similar to what the iPhone does for a lot of things.

[Andrenid]

That was my first thought. A widget showing a random headline from your unread articles would be awesome. Sort've like the RSS widget.

[StavrosK]

I hope they'll update it with this :(