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The Linkdown for Thursday, July 7
David Kaelin, owner of Game Over Videogames. Photo by Jay Janner / AMERICAN-STATESMAN
The Linkdown is trying to cram five days of activity into a four-day workweek. It’s a little crazy! here’s what you should be checking out online:
Events:
- Game Over Videogames Classic Game Fest, a month of retro game events, continues. (Photo above)
- Code for America meetup on July 15th. Details to come on this group.
- 24 Hours of Technology Commercialization Conference, July 12-13.
- Twisted Pixel launch party for “Ms. ‘Splosion Man” on July 13.
- TEDxAustin simulcast of TEDGlobal, at the Alamo Drafthouse S. Lamar on July 13.
- Mobile Monday Austin on July 11 is about development for the RIM Playbook.
- Tickets for the next BlogathonATX are now available for the Oct. 1 event.
- Bizzy meetup in Austin on July 16th, part of a national bus tour.
- AMD Texas GamExperience is happening July 16th in Dallas if you’re up for a road trip to check out the company’s new tech.
Internet goodness:
- Major Internet providers (including AT&T and Time Warner) have agreed to help the entertainment industry crack down on digital copyright infringement. Watch those torrents!
- Austin-developed “Wizard101,” which just hit 20 million users, gets profiled by Fox Business News.
- Did you hear the latest Digital Savant Podcast, #5?
- 30 layoffs reported at Austin Red Fly game studio.
- Here’s a piece I wrote for CNN.com about what would happen if kids (5-12 years old) took over Facebook.
- Neat superpowered glasses help the visually impaired recognize faces.
- Less high-tech: 8-bit glasses.
- Spotify is FINALLY coming to the U.S.
- Fry’s introduced an online wireless store.
- Verizon’s tiered data plans (the end of unlimited for new customers) have arrived.
- First summits for this year’s GDC Online (October in Austin) have been announced.
- Google may have Google+ now, but it has lost Twitter real-time search (at least temporarily).
- Hackers vs. Hackers!
- Time Warner Cable updates its iPad app to include more features and channels, but blocks jailbreakers.
- Having Flash problems in Internet Explorer 9? This could help.
- Games for Windows merges with Xbox.com
- Ruby on Rails training scholarships.
- Cool: Cinemagraphs!
- “Animated Knots” app gets a big update for its 1-year anniversary.
Got a Linkdown item we should include in a future update? E-mail it to us with “LINKDOWN:” in the subject line.
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