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July 1, 2012, 9:50 AM

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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, The Verge, The Next Web and PC Magazine

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Twitter Cuts Off LinkedIn — Who's Next?

More: VatorNews, Pulse2 Technology …, HubSpot's Inbound …, Softpedia News, Daily Social EN, Forbes, Fast Company, msnbc.com, LinkedIn Blog and Business Insider. Thanks:@baznet. See also Mediagazer

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.

Jackie Dove / Macworld:

MobileMe rides into the sunset by Sunday — The sun is setting on the MobileMe era. By the time Sunday rolls around—on June 30 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time to be precise—the cloud storage and syncing service that Apple debuted in 2008 will fade away. Apple's iCloud service …

More: Fortune, 9to5Mac, CNET, The Verge, Gizmodo and CNET

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

Spencer Ackerman / Wired:

It Only Took the Army 16 Years and 2 Wars to Deploy This Network — In October, the Army will do something it's wanted to do for more than a decade: send a pair of combat brigades to a warzone equipped with a new data network, and the hardware to operate it.

More: Engadget, PC Magazine and PhoneArena

Brian Prince / eWeek:

Mac, Windows Malware Campaign Targets Uyghur Activists — Security pros have spotted a Mac Trojan and Windows malware being used separately in targeted attacks against political activists in Central Asia. — Researchers at Kaspersky Lab say Mac malware is being used in an advanced persistent …

More: The Verge, The Register, CNET, threatpost, Alienvault Labs and Securelist

Kathleen De Vere / Inside Mobile Apps:

The state of the Android platform: from monetization to China to the Nexus 7 — As Google's annual developer conference I/O winds down today, it's clear Google is trying to evolve Android — not only as a platform, but as an experience for both users and developers.

More: Gizmodo

Matt Gemmell:

Replying to App Store reviews — In the wake of the recent announcement that Google Play will allow developers to respond to user reviews of apps (Google Play being the Android version of Apple's iOS App Store, iBookstore and iTunes Store combined), there's been a resurgence of sentiment amongst iOS …

More: Marco.org, furbo.org, Matthew Panzarino and The Loop

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Could Instagram And Other Sites Avoid Going Down With Amazon's Ship? — When we heard about Instagram (and other sites) going down when Amazon Web Services' North Virginia hub was hit by a storm — not the first time AWS has gone down (April 2011 was another notable outage) we couldn't help but wonder: could it have been avoided?

More: Fitocracy Blog, Associated Press, Mashable!, GigaOM, The Atlantic Online, Wall Street Journal, The Register, TechCrunch, Bits, CNET, Business Insider, Engadget, Forbes, Forbes, The Verge, VentureBeat and The Next Web. Tweets: @instagram

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Takes Its Google+ Platform Mobile With Android, iOS SDKs & Social Plugins For The Mobile Web — Google+ is obviously a major focus for Google these days, but until now, the company hasn't really focused on extending the Google platform beyond its own services and its +1 buttons.

More: iMore, The Next Web, Inquirer and WebProNews

Megha Rajagopalan / ProPublica:

Cellphone Companies Will Share Your Location Data - Just Not With You — Cellphone companies hold onto your location information for years and routinely provide it to police and, in anonymized form, to outside companies. As they note in their privacy policies, Verizon, Sprint, AT&T …

More: Wired

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

waywire, Cory Booker's Personalized News Startup, Uses Video To Give Youth A Voice — “There's an oligarchy in the media and that needs to be broken up” Newark, NJ mayor Cory Booker tells me. So he's building #waywire, a news site that features original and syndicated video content …

More: Variety, CNET, Fast Company, VentureBeat and AllThingsD. See also Mediagazer

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