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The Linkdown for Wednesday, June 29
Events:
- Austin Social Media Club’s Social Media Day Pre-Party happens Wednesday night (June 29) at Nuvola.
- Mashable-affiliated Social Media Day event is Thursday night at The Upper Decks. (More on Austin and Social Media Day here.)
- Game Over Videogames begins Classic Game Fest, a month of retro game events, on Friday.
- Game designer Warren Spector and writer Alan Porter sign “DuckTales” and “Cars” comic books at Austin Books & Comics on Saturday.
- Tickets for the next BlogathonATX are scheduled to be made available on Tuesday, July 5.
Internet goodness:
- As the video above shows (hilariously), the Supreme Court has declared video games are art and that you can’t ban their sale to children.
- Behold the future of office work(outs)! The elliptical office chair.
- After some user backlash, Apple says it will add some missing features to “Final Cut Pro X” that pro users want.
- Gowalla is now available for Windows Phone 7.
- Roku 2 boxes appear to be on their way.
- Google is experimenting with ways to link authors with their content in searches.
- Austin’s Aspyr is working on the Mac version of “Duke Nukem Forever” due later this summer.
- Did the CEO of OnLive figure out a way to eliminate wireless dead zones/overcongestion? We can hope!
- Creepy, horrific trailer for “Dead Island” receives an advertising award at Cannes.
- SXSW launches October Eco conference.
- “King of Kong” director is bringing back “WarGames.” Yay!
- Google is mothballing its health records service.
- Ignition Studios is said to be shutting down Austin operations.
- Meanwhile, EA Sports may be coming to town.
- Twitter’s co-founders are going back to work on their original start-up, Obvious Corp.
- Austin’s Brass Knuckles Media and Tech Ranch announce a social entrepreneurship effort.
- The National Robotics Roundtable applauds Obama for a Robotics Initiative.
- Devious save mechanism means Capcom’s “Resident Evil: Mercenaries 3D” for Nintendo 3DS can only be played through once. So long, used-game sales.
- Why Optimus Prime has no luck on dating websites.
- News Corp. has sold MySpace. And lost money on the deal.
- Slacker is replacing AOL Radio.
- Like e-books? There are lots of them here to celebrate “The Year of the eBook.”
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