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July 2, 2012, 4:25 AM

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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 …

Tweets: @hunterwalk and @nod

Nova Spivack:

A Solution to the Twitter API Problem — I am writing this article because I love Twitter, and I've built a business around making sense of Twitter data. — I'm concerned by the “ominous” signs that they may be heading down a path that betrays the trust and goodwill given to them by millions of users and developers.

More: API Voice, CNET and Computerworld. Thanks:@novaspivack. See also Mediagazer

Brian X. Chen / New York Times:

Uber, an App That Summons a Car, Plans a Cheaper Service Using Hybrids — Uber, a start-up based in San Francisco, has won a following among urbanites with its novel twist on calling a car service: its app lets you summon a luxury sedan with a tap on your phone.

More: GigaOM, TechCrunch, The Next Web and Pulse2 Technology …

Tweets: @semil, @hunterwalk and @sacca

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: digitaltrends.com, CNET, Android News, Rumours …, Engadget, Pocketnow, Pulse2 Technology …, Redmond Pie, TechnoBuffalo, SlashGear, Examiner, Network World, TUAW, PC Magazine and IntoMobile

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.

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Apple agrees to pay Proview $60m to settles China iPad trademark dispute — Apple has ended the ongoing issue surrounding the ownership of the iPad trademark in China by agreeing to pay Taiwanese firm Proview $60 million, according to AP reports. — Proview has been on negotiating for some time …

More: PC World, MacRumors, Associated Press, Engadget, The Verge, CNET, AppleInsider, App Advice, Business Insider, New York Times, iClarified, Wall Street Journal, iMore, Pulse2 Technology … and TUAW. Tweets: @ap

Rob Walker / New York Times:

On YouTube, Amateur Is the New Pro — A kid from Nebraska shows up in New York City to make it big. This kid was Bryan Odell, a 21-year-old college dropout who lived with his parents. Gangly, with curly blond hair, he looked and talked as if he arrived straight from central casting.

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, dailywireless.org, Fortune, Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life, PandoDaily, Slashdot and PhoneRPT.com

Nick Bilton / Bits:

Google's Project Glass Lets Technology Slip Into the Background

Peter Maass / ProPublica:

How a Lone Grad Student Scooped the Government and What It Means for Your Online Privacy — June 28: This story has been corrected. — This story was co-published with Wired. — Jonathan Mayer had a hunch. — A gifted computer scientist, Mayer suspected that online advertisers might …

More: TechEye and msnbc.com

Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook:

Its I.P.O. Botched, Facebook Looks Hard at Nasdaq — Facebook's debut was supposed to be Nasdaq's ultimate coup. — But in the weeks since the social network's much-ballyhooed — and ultimately botched — initial public offering, the relationship has soured. — In Facebook parlance, it's complicated.

More: Wall Street Journal

Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:

What's next for RIM? — A sad coincidence provides a stark contrast between the fortunes of two high tech companies, titans present and past. Last week, on (almost) the same day that the iPhone celebrated its fifth birthday, RIM issued very bad quarterly numbers: Down 43% year-to-year to $2.8B …

More: TechCrunch

Allison Sherry / Mercury News:

San Jose among three places to get U.S. Patent Office — WASHINGTON — The Denver metro area is among three places — along with San Jose and Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas — that will get a new U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, according to documents obtained this weekend by The Denver Post.

More: San Francisco Chronicle and bizjournals

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