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July 1, 2012, 4:05 PM

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Cade Metz / Wired:

‘Leap Second’ Bug Wreaks Havoc Across Web — Reddit, Mozilla, and possibly many other web outfits experienced brief technical problems on Saturday evening, when software unpinning their online operations choked on the “leap second” that was added to the world's atomic clocks.

More: CNET, The Verge, GigaOM, PC Magazine, Betabeat, Server Fault, Gizmodo, io9, BuzzFeed, TorrentFreak, The Bunsen Burner, Nelson's Weblog and Gawker

Fred Wilson / A VC:

Mobile Is Where The Growth Is — If you look at any of the top web properties on comScore, Quantcast, Alexa or any other third party reporting service you will see that they all have been fairly flat over the first half of the year. You might think that all these big web services are flatlining.

More: CNET and VentureBeat. Tweets: @jeffjarvis

Nick Bilton / Bits:

Google's Project Glass Lets Technology Slip Into the Background — I have seen the future, and it is wearable. — But before I tell you about this future, let's take a short trip into the past, specifically to the mid-1400s, when a German by the name of Johannes Gutenberg was hard at work inventing the printing press.

Steven Levy / Wired:

Google Glass Team: ‘Wearable Computing Will Be the Norm’ — Even though I followed Google's I/O Conference from across the country, the event made it obvious that a company created with a strict focus on search has become an omnivorous factory of tech products both hard and soft.

More: ProCamera Blog, Fortune, Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life, PandoDaily, PhoneRPT.com, Slashdot and The Next Web

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Careful, Twitter — remember what happened to MySpace and Digg — Twitter sent some shock waves through the technology community with a blog post on Friday that talked about its plans for the future, and suggested that those plans don't necessarily involve third-party services and apps.

More: API Voice, VatorNews, Pulse2 Technology …, Daily Social EN, Softpedia News, AllThingsD and Twitter Developers. See also Mediagazer

Dalton Caldwell:

What Twitter could have been — I remember when you could go to Twitter.com and see the global firehose on the front page. They had no traffic. The global feed was mostly employees and their friends talking to each other. — When Twitter started to get traction, a year or two into their existence …

Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac:

MobileMe shuts down, though Apple still offering migrations, iDisk, Gallery downloads — If you haven't done so already, the time has finally come to make the switch from MobileMe to iCloud. Apple closed down their old syncing service today and removed the iDisk and MobileMe Gallery apps …

More: MacRumors, The Next Web, Mashable!, MacGazette, Macworld, MacStories, Fortune, CNET, The Verge and Gizmodo. Thanks:@markgurman

Jon Rettinger / TechnoBuffalo:

Google Search vs. Apple's Siri: Voice Assistant Battle — Siri is how Apple persuades consumers to buy the iPhone 4S, and in iOS 6, the voice assistant promises to get a whole lot better. But before the new and improved Siri arrives, Google is unleashing an upgrade to its search that, well, blows Apple's tech right out of the water.

More: Business Insider, FreshTe.ch Blog, Phones Review, IntoMobile, Gotta Be Mobile and Los Angeles Times

Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:

The PHP Singularity — Look at this incredible thing Ian Baker created. Look at it! — What you're seeing is not Photoshopped. This is an actual photo of a real world, honest to God double-clawed hammer. Such a thing exists. Isn't that amazing? And also, perhaps, a little disturbing?

More: rc3.org, Lucas Gonze's blog and Slashdot

Nick Wingfield / Bits:

The Well, a Pioneering Online Community, Is for Sale Again — Before Facebook, Twitter, Google — heck, even before the Web — there was The Well, an online discussion community founded in Northern California in 1985 that became home to the early denizens of what used to be called cyberspace.

More: The Verge and Pulse2 Technology …. See also Mediagazer

Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:

Samsung appeals Galaxy Nexus ban and moves to stay the injunction — As expected, Samsung's lawyers worked hard to define their appellate strategy concerning the Galaxy Nexus injunction that was ordered on Friday afternoon Pacific Time. They just gave notice of their appeal to the Court …

More: Network World and PC Magazine

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Looks Like Apple Has Changed Its App Store Algorithm Again — Last week we were alerted to an interesting tweak that had appeared in the Apple App Store: searches for apps were suddenly ranking results higher by user ratings and app descriptions, rather than the names of the apps themselves.

More: iPhone Hacks, MacGazette, iDownloadBlog.com, AppleInsider, TUAW, Inside Mobile Apps, Forbes and App Advice

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