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The Linkdown for Wednesday, June 15
CoCreate coworking space. Photo by Thomas Jack Hilton
The Linkdown is extra-packed this week and is not separating events into their own section. Strap in, folks, it’s about to get linky in here!
Events:
- SXSW Panel Picker for 2012 launches Monday. There’ll be a free meetup at Hangar Lounge that night. It’s free for 21 and over.
- Austin High Tech Happy Hour is next Thursday (June 23) at Molotov.
- Austin Social Media Club is on Tuesday and the topic is music and social media. Tickets (which are free) go fast, so scoop them up soon.
- Next Friday (June 24), the Texas Advanced Computing Center is holding a 10-year anniversary event.
- Greater Austin Hispanic Chamber of Commerce hosts a social media coffee chat on Thursday.
- Edited to add: CapMac’s Get Ready for iCloud meeting Thursday night.
Web goodness:
- A new Austin coworking space, CoCreate, at 8th and Congress, has launched (pictured above).
- Celebratory Ultima Forever website has launched.
- Speaking of which, Austin’s gaming godfather Richard Garriott is getting married on July 1st!
- St. Edward’s University has launched a redesigned website as well as a new section for students, staff and faculty.
- Lots of Nintendo Wii and DS game release dates for the rest of the year.
- Caffeinated: Starbuck’s serves up mobile payment app for Android.
- Neat Gmail add-on: Boomerang!
- Gowalla partners with Jennifer Garner and Frigidaire on food project.
- Are games and workout machines crossing over?
- New AMD low-power graphics/processor combination chips.
- Google never rests: new kind of image searching and desktop voice search in Chrome.
- A Groupon deal that benefits Girlstart and helps sends girls to camp is still going today.
- Free U.S. Open World Golf Tour online tourney.
- HP TouchPad tablet is coming July 1.
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