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The Linkdown for Friday, Aug. 19
The school year is starting and that HP TouchPad tablet that we half-heartedly recommended in our recent back-to-school guide is already being discontinued! So much change! Keep your head on straight and let The Linkdown guide you through this tumultuous time of transition with these events and links:
Events:
- Big Data Love happy hour on Friday.
- Austin’s Lamebook hosts a concert/legal fundraiser on Saturday. They’re also celebrating the launch of a new site, UHpinions.
- Hidden Room Theatre’s experimental two-location Skype-enabled performance, half of which takes place in Austin, continues through August here and in Edinburgh, Scotland. We wrote about it before South by Southwest Interactive this year, where it was presented.
- 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.
- Redbox is giving away a free movie rental good on Aug. 25 via Facebook.
Internet goodness:
- As we mentioned above, HP is discontinuing the TouchPad tablet, killing off webOS and considering spinning off its consumer products division.
- Recreating stock photos: the new planking?
- AT&T will only have one texting plan for wireless customers: $20 a month for unlimited, or 20 cents per text without a plan. If you’re an existing customer, you can keep your current texting plan. Changes go into effect this weekend.
- Austin-developed “Wizard 101,” which already has 20 million players, is expanding into China.
- Evernote, quickly growing, acquires photo service Skitch.
- Houston woman kicked out of a bar for Tweeting about the bartender.
- Matthew Odam tells us about 2-D converter glasses that allow you to go see 3-D movies and bypass the 3-D.
- IBM makes new chips modeled after the human brain.
- Students: Newegg is discounting college textbooks up to 90 percent.
- Foursquare adds event check-ins to its service.
- Two visualizations of SXSW Interactive 2012 panel proposals. This one is huge. This one is a category breakdown.
- Hatch chiles app is hot.
- $20,000 scholarships from AP and Google for tech-focused journalists. Just don’t take my job, OK?
- Not surprising: mobile wireless data use is exploding just as the carrier are curbing unlimited plans and throttling some data use.
- Austin’s “Intergalactic Nemesis” live graphic novel is starting a world tour.
- Wired profiles prolific filmmaker Robert Rodriguez.
- PlayStation 3 $50 price drop.
- Lengthy New York Times Magazine profile of the Gregory Brothers, who played SXSW Interactive’s Web Awards this year.
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