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The Linkdown for Thursday, Oct. 13
BlackBerry outage! But it’s probably over by now! Maybe! Don’t panic!Here’s what you should be checking out online:
Events:
- Friday Night Hacks happens Friday. Tickets are already available.
- Big Data Love Happy Hour on Friday at Third Base.
- UT Venture Labs expo is happening on Oct. 27.
Internet goodness:
- Austin blogger Carla Birnberg is a finalist in a Shape Magazine fitness blogger contest.
- Has Austin app studio Appiction shut down? What happened? There appears to be some confusion about the situation. (Note: there will probably be an update in Friday’s American-Statesman.)
- Out and About write-up of Girlstart’s annual luncheon, featuring talk of gaming tech and education.
- PBS Kids has an online lab featuring 40 new educational games.
- Some Nielsen smartphone statistics for your perusal.
- Zynga announces new games and a new platform.
- Facebook doubles its space in Austin, which has the largest concentration of FB employees outside of its headquarters.
- Sony struggles with more PlayStation Network hacking and problems with some of its Bravia TVs.
- Is the incredibly ill-timed BlackBerry outage over yet?
- Registration has opened for Knowbility’s next Accessibility Internet Rally.
- Not everybody’s having a good time installing iOS 5, the new iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch operating software. Should you install?
- Related: so there’s some new phone coming out tomorrow?
- Leisure Suit Larry is making another comeback, this time with original writer Al Lowe.
- Facebook app for iPad finally released. It’s good!
- Netflix gave up on a really bad idea.
- YouTube space lab!
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(Photo by Paul Sakuma, Associated Press.)
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