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July 1, 2012, 6:30 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: TechCrunch, CNET, Server Fault, io9, The Verge, PC Magazine, GigaOM, Betabeat, DVICE, Gizmodo, Pulse2 Technology …, TorrentFreak, The Bunsen Burner, Nelson's Weblog, BuzzFeed, Mashable!, Slashdot and Gawker

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, PhoneRPT.com and Slashdot

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.

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

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 and Softpedia News. 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.

More: CNET and VentureBeat. Tweets: @jeffjarvis

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: Engadget, SlashGear, Network World, PC Magazine and IntoMobile

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, MacStories, Fortune, Mashable!, MacGazette, Macworld, CNET and The Verge. 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: FreshTe.ch Blog, Business Insider, Phones Review and IntoMobile

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

Outdoor Hub:

Google Censors Firearms Products in Shopping Search Results — Google's unofficial motto of “don't be evil” is being heavily scrutinized by firearms enthusiasts following the release of a letter the company sent out to merchants using its Google Shopping service.

More: Prison Planet.com. Thanks:@chrispirillo

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

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