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The Linkdown for Monday, April 11 (Catch-up edition)
The Linkdown, and this blog for that matter, were on vacation last week but you may not have even noticed because Brian Gaar pitched in a video game review and we had our regularly scheduled new games roundup on Tuesday. We’re sneaky like that and The Linkdown’s titanium work ethic fills with rusty shame at the thought of not keeping you informed.
So here’s where we catch up! Some links for you:
- This takes me back: the Commodore 64 gets an (inner) transplant, keeps retro look.
- 3.5 million Texans left exposed by a state server that wasn’t supposed to be publicly accessible. Whups.
- Steve Jobs is finally getting an authorized biography. Tragically, it will be titled, “iSteve: A Book of Jobs.” At least they’re not calling it, “Paid the iCost to be the iBoss.”
- UT is going to be straight-up digitizing fossils with help from a National Science Foundation grant. Got a problem with that?
- On Wednesday, the Pokémon Global Link goes live. Will we ever remember what life was like before it happened?
- Gowalla has partnered with the film “Win Win” and the soundtrack producers Mom + Pop Records to give you a free music track when you check in at the movies to see it.
- The Winklevoss twins were not Winklevictorious in court.
- A new web series, “Mortal Kombat: Legacy” will debut Tuesday on Machinima.com’s YouTube page.
- I’ll be interviewing Disney Interactive’s Starr Long Tuesday at the Game On! Texas 2011 Conference. There will also be a Game Investment Conference happening on Wednesday.
- Photoshop showing off the future of how desktop and mobile/tablet apps will interact with each other? Who knows, but this is pretty cool.
- Neat idea: a location-aware music album for Washington D.C. that changes dynamically based on where you are. Somebody should do that for Austin!
- Dell is really into mushrooms. (For PACKAGING. Get your mind out of the drug gutter!)
- Austin’s Food on the Table funded.
- Facebook has been sending cultural ambassadors to Austin.
- Happening Thursday: a presentation on bridging the digital divide presented by Cisco and Blue Knot relating to Central Texas as well as the Middle East. Registration deadline is Tuesday. It’s a free event.
- VideoCamp Texas III is on April 23. You can register here.
- Another food truck finder app, this one is called Roaming Hunger.
- Could Austin-developed Sony MMO “Free Realms,” which was recently released for the PlayStation 3 (in addition to its PC version), end up with 100 million users. Someone seems to think so.
- DISH is buying Blockbuster.
- Webby Award nominees are announced Tuesday morning.
- Austin’s Jodi Bart has made it to the finals of the Whole Foods Foodie Fantasy Contest.
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By Jodi
April 11, 2011 4:49 PM | Link to this
Thank you so much for including me, Omar!