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The Linkdown for Friday, Aug. 12
A Facebook profile for one of the characters in “You Wouldn’t Know Him, He Lives in Texas,” which is being presented in Austin and in Scotland simultaneously.
Internet links for you on a slow, humid Friday:
Events:
- Hidden Room Theatre’s experimental two-location Skype-enabled performance, half of which takes place in Austin, opens this weekend here and in Edinburgh, Scotland. We wrote about it before South by Southwest Interactive this year, where it was presented.
- Video Game Movies That Rock presents a Round Rock screening of a film to be determined. It screens on Wednesday.
- Big Data Love happy hour on Aug. 19.
- On Aug. 24 author/filmmaker Ernie Cline of “Fanboys” fame will present his video game-themed book “Ready Player One” at Austin Books & Comics.
- Austin School of Film has lots of digital filmmaking classes coming up.
Internet goodness:
- Imagine Austin wants your stories and photos on what makes Austin great.
- The Texas Film Commission is boosting incentives for video game developers.
- According to Men’s Health Magazine, Austin is the 5th-most-tablet-friendly U.S. city. Plano was the top city listed.
- Want to do some boat sharing? Austin’s Nautical Monkey has got a website for you.
- Redbox kiosks get Foursquared and offer discounts for movie/game renters.
- An iOS app version of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” is coming soon.
- FCC is looking to add texting/geolocation and other capabilities to 9-1-1.
- Wal-Mart and Vudu continue to cozy up with an iPad streaming video app. Meanwhile, Wal-Mart is shutting down its MP3 store at the end of the month.
- Laptop competition heats up as Dell releases some new thin, light Inspiron laptops. On the minus side, Dell has discontinued its awkwardly sized Streak 5 mini tablet The company is also holding a Dell World convention in October.
- China releases blogger Ran Yunfei, but with conditions.
- The FBI has released
a Child ID safety app. - Pay TV loses subscribers.
- Game rental outfit Gamefly moves down the path of online rentals.
- Giving away coffee on Twitter: a great service to humanity or shameless self-branding?
- MySpace homepage apparently hacked. Very likely no one noticed.
- Even IBM thinks the PC, which celebrates its 30th anniversary, is on the way out.
- Via Austinist: where kitty videos come from.
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