Omar L. Gallaga writes about technology culture for the Austin American-Statesman. He's worked for the American-Statesman since 1997 and edited Technopolis, the newspaper's personal tech section, and ¡ahora sí!, Austin's Spanish-language newspaper. He's currently a contributor to NPR's "All Tech Considered" segment, which airs Mondays on "All Things Considered." He's been a writer and performer with Austin's award-winning Latino Comedy Project, and is a contributing writer for Television Without Pity. He writes a comic strip, "Space Monkeys!" with his brother, Pablo, and lives in New Braunfels with his wife and three technologically savvy cats.
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By Omar L. Gallaga
| Monday, March 7, 2011, 09:34 AM
We’ve been writing a lot about South by Southwest Interactive and if you’re not attending (or have no plans to follow the fest), it must be getting a little exhausting. Well, we’re going to be doing a lot more, but here’s a respite for non-SXSWers, a Linkdown sans South by Southwest information.
Here’s what’s up:
The RISE Austin conference begins today, featuring keynote speaker Robert Johnson. Here’s a list of the multicultural series tech sessions and more info about the series. You can also read more about RISE in today’s Statesman.
Also on Thursday: a reception for an art exhibit of iPad-created artwork. Artist Kyle Lambert’s work (like the iPad-created image pictured here), among many others, will be part of the show.
Why is the iPad doing so well and why will it be so hard for competitors to catch up? It’s all about pricing.
Have you ever been burned by online concert ticketing that seemed to sell out too quickly? Here’s why that happens.
Three non-SXSW social media happenings on Thursday: Austin High Tech Happy Hour ($10) at Molotov, BASHH (free, but sold out) at Belmont and Statesman Texas Social Media Awards (free, waitlist) at ACL Live.
Something to look forward to: March 13 is World Poopin’ Day. (Calm down, it’s for charity!)
Gowalla 3.0 for Android devices is all the way live.
Austin’s Photodex has partnered with Smugmug for online HD slideshows.
Last week, Facebook acquired Beluga, a group messaging service that I’ve been trying out. It’s quite good.
The president and CEO of NPR Vivian Schiller and Meredith Artley, the managing editor of CNN.com (full disclosure: I write for both) will be featured speakers at the 12th Annual International Symposium on Online Journalism at the University of Texas.
The Online gaming service is giving away a microconsole and controller with pre-orders of “Homefront.”
The official DirecTV app for iPad is out. I’ve tried it. It’s hot. No video streaming, but streaming else about it is great.
The Austin Chamber of Commerce has an app!
A site for news and events related to Austin start-ups, appropriately called “Startup ATX.”
In addition to his Disney video game / “Epic Mickey” duties, Austin’s Warren Spector is also busy working on “DuckTales” comics. Might we see a video game based on it, too?
Got a Linkdown suggestion? E-mail it to us with “LINKDOWN:” in the subject line.
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