diff --git a/mod/ping.php b/mod/ping.php
index c0e61434e9..0f6f0a9d68 100644
--- a/mod/ping.php
+++ b/mod/ping.php
@@ -127,12 +127,20 @@ function ping_init(&$a) {
 		$tot = $mail+$intro+$register+count($comments)+count($likes)+count($dislikes)+count($friends)+count($posts)+count($tags);
 
 		require_once('include/bbcode.php');
-		
+		$sysnotify = 0;
+
 		if($firehose) {
 			echo '	<notif count="'.$tot.'">';
 		}
 		else {
-			echo '	<notif count="'. count($z) .'">';
+			if(count($z)) {
+				foreach($z as $zz) {
+					if($zz['seen'] == 0)
+						$sysnotify ++;
+				}
+			}						
+
+			echo '	<notif count="'. $sysnotify .'">';
 			if(count($z)) {
 				foreach($z as $zz) {
 					echo xmlize($a->get_baseurl() . '/notify/view/' . $zz['id'], $zz['name'],$zz['url'],$zz['photo'],relative_date($zz['date']), ($zz['seen'] ? 'notify-seen' : 'notify-unseen'), ($zz['seen'] ? '' : '&rarr; ') .strip_tags(bbcode($zz['msg'])));
diff --git a/view/theme/duepuntozero/nav.tpl b/view/theme/duepuntozero/nav.tpl
index 7f13bd8347..8fff207558 100755
--- a/view/theme/duepuntozero/nav.tpl
+++ b/view/theme/duepuntozero/nav.tpl
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 
 		{{ if $nav.notifications }}
 			<li  id="nav-notifications-linkmenu" class="nav-commlink"><a href="$nav.notifications.0" rel="#nav-notifications-menu" title="$nav.notifications.1">$nav.notifications.1</a>
-				<span id="notify-update" class="nav-notify"></span>
+				<span id="notify-update" class="nav-ajax-left"></span>
 				<ul id="nav-notifications-menu" class="menu-popup">
 					<li id="nav-notifications-mark-all"><a href="#" onclick="notifyMarkAll(); return false;">$nav.notifications.mark.1</a></li>
 					<li id="nav-notifications-see-all"><a href="$nav.notifications.all.0">$nav.notifications.all.1</a></li>