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The Linkdown for Thursday, Jan. 5
The Linkdown had a long, restful holiday vacation, but was haunted by visions of web pages unshared to the public, great links unseen, an apocalyptic vision of readers suffering from lack of entertaining reading material. It was horrible. There may have been three visiting ghosts and a turkey purchased by a diminutive child… a tiny… Tim Tebow? That’s where things get fuzzy. Anyhoo! Here are some things you should know about:
Events:
- The first ONA (Online News Association) meetup/mixer for the new Austin chapter happens tonight (Thursday) at Opal Divine’s Penn Field.
- Green Bank’s used computer drive ends Friday. You can donate in Austin, Houston or Dallas. In Austin, Green Bank is working with Goodwill Computer Works.
- StoryCorps will begin recording stories of Austin communities on Friday through February, but you can reserve a slot here.
- Austin’s uShip is being featured on A&E’s “Shipping Wars,” which debuts Tuesday.
- White Whale is celebrating the release of its game “God of Blades” with a party at Dive Bar on Jan. 12. Info here and here.
- Google+ for Small Business event happens Jan. 13.
- The first Transmedia Austin meetup has been announced for Jan. 26. The topic is Transmedia in Music.
- Girlstart has announced info for its 2012 summer camps.
- Upcoming GeekAustin classes: Introduction to Bash (starts Monday), Intermediate PHP (starts Jan. 12), Introduction to SQL using MYSQL (starts Feb. 6).
Internet goodness:
- SiriusXM introduces an Android-based super player, the Lynx (pictured above).
- Interesting post about the 400 new employees BioWare is hiring in Ireland to support Austin-developed “Star Wars: The Old Republic” (and to work on new projects).
- AT&T has added Austin as one of its new 4G/LTE wireless markets. (No, your iPhone can’t use it; only 4G/LTE devices.)
- Also, AT&T owes TiVo some money.
- Austin-developed “Are You Watching This?” a sports remote for your living room, is out for Android.
- How doctors are using social media to connect with patients.
- Introducing Roku on a stick.
- Guess who joined Twitter over the holidays?
- SXSW Interactive announces New York City and San Francisco meetups (in addition to their Austin one). They have also announced a bike share program for the fest.
- Petting your cat remotely, a boon for the allergic!
- Producer Mark Burnett and his wife, “Touched By An Angel” star Roma Downey, are behind the Bible360 app.
- I missed this back in December: Wall Street Journal talks about business Twitter strategies, including that of last year’s Texas Social Media Awards winner Whole Foods.
- Princess Leia headphones.
- Also over the holidays: Google+ passed 62 million users.
- Sexy Sax Man made a stop in Austin recently.
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