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The Linkdown for Thursday, Oct. 20
Above: the Lytro light-sensing camera. Photo via Lytro.com.
The Linkdown is dropping knowledge like a bad habit. Except that sort of thing is a good habit! Think about it.
Here’s what you should be checking out online:
Events:
- Innotech Austin happening today.
- Austin High Tech Happy Hour and the October BASHH are happening tonight.
- Also tonight: CapMac’s “Tips & Tricks with iOS 5” meeting at IHOP South Mopac.
- Big Data Love Happy Hour on Friday at Third Base.
- Better Business Bureau’s “BBB Shred Day” happens Saturday at Dell’s Round Rock Campus. Bring your electronic trash and recyclables!
- Girlstart’s Spooky Science STEM lab is on Saturday.
- UT Venture Labs expo is happening on Oct. 27.
- The Lonestar Application Security Conference happens on Oct. 28.
- Digital art installation “Tag: We’re It” happens Nov. 5 at Flatbed Press.
- Geek Austin intro to Unix/Linux Command Line class starts on Nov. 7.
- Skillpoint Alliance is looking for some volunteers for upcoming LEGO League Tournaments.
Internet goodness:
- Lytro focus-after-you-shoot camera is now available, looks pretty mindblowing.
- Want to buy Richard Garriott’s Britannia II estate? It’s for sale! Hope you’ve got about $4 million!
- Austin’s White Whale Games has announced its first project, “God of Blades.”
- Dell, struggling to find a good Halloween costume, tries to reinvent itself as a Silicon Valley cloud computing startup.
- Kids under two shouldn’t be watching that much TV. My nearly-two and four-year-old kids find out too late.
- Sony’s PlayStation Vita portable launches on Feb. 22 in the U.S. (Yes, that’s next year.)
- Motorola Droid RAZR looks pretty snazzy.
- Consumer Reports is holding an app development contest
- Bye bye, wireless bill shock? (Let’s hope so.)
- Despite lukewarm reaction, 4 million iPhone 4s were sold in the first weekend, making it the best iPhone launch so far.
- BlackBerry: hey, sorry about those outages. Want some free apps?
- iPhone who? Samsung has sold 30 million Galaxy S phones.
- Buddy TV for U-Verse
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