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The Linkdown for Thursday, May 12 (Lost productivity edition)
The Linkdown doesn’t want to mess up your work flow, but there are such delicious digital distractions to enjoy. Could we be experiencing The Productivitypocaplyse? Perhaps, perhaps. Here’s some linky goodness:
- Before you click on the free, web-based version of “Angry Birds,” ask yourself this: “do I have a few hours to kill right now?”
- And if you still can’t get enough “Angry Birds,” here a cute cover of the theme song, performed by Pomplamoose.
- Ditto the new “PBS Kids Video” app for the iPad. It’s got about 1,000 programs and the content and app are all free (if you have an iPad).
- Lady Gaga + FarmVille = GagaVille, of course.
- According to one survey, 7.5 million of Facebook’s users are under the age of 13. How old are you supposed to be to use Facebook? 13, it turns out.
- The end of an era: North America servers for NCSoft’s “Lineage” are shutting down in late June.
- Also expiring: Flip camera FlipShare videos and photos 30 days after they’re posted. But at least tech support for the now-obsolete devices will last until the end of 2013.
- Google this week unveiled its Music Beta service as well as Chromebooks, a new kind of laptop that runs its operating system. Students can use it (including Internet) for $20 a month.
- In case you ever wanted your PC to look like a big seashell.
- Free online 3-D body maps, courtesy of GE and Healthline. Educational! Anatomical!
- An app that helps you stay under your bandwidth plan limit by compressing data.
- Amazon’s Cloud Player now works on iOS devices. You’ve gotta work for it a little, but it does function.
- Austin’s Games on the Down Low has released a game called “Hard8.”
- Facebook says that its secret smear campaign against against Google wasn’t as smeary as people are making it out to be.
- Social media-enabled e-cigarettes have sensors that put you in touch with other e-smokers nearby. Wait, WHAT?!
- API for Lollapalooza has been released. Could Austin City Limits Fest follow?
- Partnership between kgbdeals and Austin Pets Alive.
- Austin game developer Richard Garriott and Naughty Dog’s Jason Rubin talk about the history of video games in this video (also embedded below).
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