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The Linkdown for Wednesday, Nov. 9
The Linkdown has returned from vacation with a bounty of pre-Thanksgiving tasty treats. Sure, you can’t eat them, but they’re still nourishing if you like news and local tech events.
Here’s what you should be checking out online:
Events:
- Freelance Austin is hosting an interactive elevator pitch meeting tonight.
- “Red vs. Blue” Season 9 premiere screening happens Thursday at Alamo Drafthouse Downtown. Unfortunately, it’s sold out.
- “Scandemonium” Movember urban scavenger hunt and concert happens Saturday.
- Startup Weekend happens next week across 50 U.S. cities.
- Next BASHH (happy hour) is on Nov. 17.
- Skillpoint Alliance is looking for some volunteers for upcoming LEGO League Tournaments.
- Pinballz Arcade is hosting a big first-anniversary celebration on Nov. 20.
Internet goodness:
- “LEGO Universe” is shutting down in January.
- Steve Jobs claims posthumous victory: Adobe is discontinuing Flash Player on mobile devices.
- Austin’s Hilah Johnson chosen for YouTube Next Chef.
- SXSW Interactive’s ScreenBurn Arcade has announced its Advisory Board.
- Meanwhile, SXSWedu has announced its Distinguished Speakers for the 2012 conference.
- One more: ever wonder what the SXSW Interactive speaker agreement sounds like? Here’s the full text.
- Source Your City has now added Austin to its service.
- UT alumni can now get a utexas.edu email address for life.
- Dell places second (behind HP) in Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics guide.
- Get Google to do a barrel roll for you (if your browser supports that).
- Google+ opens up its doors to businesses, organizations and pretty much anything else that someone thinks merits its own page.
- National Science Foundation’s fascinating look at cyberbullying. Very interesting research.
- In time for the holidays: PriceGrabber’s trending products.
- Austin’s Mass Relevance signs impressive deal with Twitter.
- Austin-developed “Wizard 101” is expanding to Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau next year.
- Consumer Reports believes the iPhone 4S has fixed that pesky antenna issue that kept them from recommending the iPhone 4.
- Barnes & Noble follows Amazon into the Android tablet fray with a new Nook.
- “DC Universe Online” is now free-to-play.
- You may soon be able to snitch on parking scofflaws using TECHNOLOGY!
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