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July 2, 2012, 5:50 AM

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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 am concerned by the recent “ominous” signs that Twitter may be heading down a path towards becoming a closed platform …

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

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: @nod and @hunterwalk

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

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: CNET, GigaOM, Inquirer, Associated Press, Computerworld, Guardian, IntoMobile, Engadget, MacRumors, The Verge, App Advice, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, iMore, iClarified, AppleInsider, Pulse2 Technology … and TUAW. Tweets: @ap

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.

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.

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

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: dailywireless.org, ProCamera Blog, Fortune, Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life, PandoDaily and Slashdot

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

Andrew Webster / The Verge:

Comcast and Boxee deal will let third-party devices access encrypted cable TV — Boxee and Comcast have announced a new agreement that will let Boxee users access encrypted basic cable channels. The deal, as revealed in a June 27th filing to the FCC, includes both a short- and long-term solution for the problem.

More: Engadget

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

Tyler Holman / Neowin:

The UK wants ISPs to store all of their traffic data — Sounds like fun. — Alright, so they say it won't spy on you, and we either know better than that, or we're just a bunch of paranoid nutjobs. Or both. Regardless, even if it doesn't spy on you, it's still open to exploitation …

More: Channel 4

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