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The Linkdown for Thursday, Nov. 4
The Linkdown is worn out from playing all those Kinect games every night this week. Nobody said this job would involve physical activity!
Here are more sedentary links on the web:
- In case you missed it, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is one of the initial round of partners for Facebook’s Places Deals. Free pint glasses for those who check in!
- Not to burst that bubble, but a new report says very, very few people percentage-wise are using location-based services like Places, Gowalla and Foursquare.
- Seemingly hot Dell Inspiron Duo, that crazy hybrid tablet/netbook is caught on video.
- On Monday, South by Southwest Interactive will announce another 200 or so panels for 2011. We’ll also hear about SXSW’s economic impact that morning in a Greyhill Advisors report.
- Coming Nov. 16: Austin Chronicle’s Game On Austin.
- Google Instant launches on Android 2.2 and iOS 4 mobile devices.
- Tuesday, Richard Garriott will discuss the “New World of Gaming” at a Rice Alliance panel.
- GameStop offers an “Epic Bundle” of virtual items for Austin-developed “Wizard 101.”
- A few Austin students will compete in the Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology this weekend.
- Sony Online’s “Free Realms” is now free on the Mac, too.
- Austin-developed “Comic Jumper” game has a free soundtrack you can grab.
- Supreme Court arguments on violent video games as analyzed by the announcer from “NBA Jam.”
- Oxford, Rice and Open University release free ebooks on iTunesU.
- DirecTV drops the gamers’ channel G4, citing low ratings.
- Statesman “Qrank” Live is coming up on Nov. 16.
- Philips Pronto universal remotes are not long for this world.
- Austin School of Film offering an iPhone apps class.
- Mint.com launches a data mining search engine.
- Austin’s Mutual Mobile wins a big ad award.
- Facebook and breakups.
- “A Story Before Bed” wants to give away story recordings to U.S. military members serving away from their kids.
- Tomorrow at UT: the IM30 (cloud/IT) conference.
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