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The Linkdown for Friday, Jan. 13
The Linkdown mostly stayed out of the gigantic, fire-breathing, head-hurting noxious blast of news from the Consumer Electronics Show, but here’s some of the events, CES news and other Internet links you should be checking out this week anyway:
Events:
- MomCom Austin is on Jan. 21.
- Volunteers are being sought for Jan. 21 LEGO League Invitational tourney.
- America’s Future Scientist fundraiser/event happens Jan. 22.
- The first Transmedia Austin meetup happens Jan. 26. The topic is Transmedia in Music.
- SXSW Interactive ATX meetup is on Jan. 30.
- Girlstart has announced info for its 2012 summer camps.
- Upcoming GeekAustin class: Introduction to SQL using MYSQL (starts Feb. 6).
- Next Juegos Rancheros meetup: Feb. 12.
Internet goodness:
- Too cool: The Restart Page.
- Austin’s Chaotic Moon stormed CES with its Kinect-controlled skateboard (Video above).
- Speaking of Chaotic Moon, their game with Certain Affinity, “Age of Booty,” is coming to iOS and Android soon.
- One more about those guys: their news app “The Daily” is coming to Android.
- NPR and Ford team up for in-car listening.
- KLRU now has its own iPhone/iPad apps.
- How long do you have to wait for Warner Bros. DVDs to get to Netflix? Longer.
- Reddit will go black for 12 hours on Jan. 18 to protest SOPA.
- Ultrabooks were hot at CES… but what are they?
- Austin-developed “Starhawk” beta is going public soon.
- Sony is pushing its own mobile music streaming service.
- OnLive Desktop streams Windows apps to your iPad.
- “Everquest II” is doing well so far with that whole free-to-play strategy.
- Target is adding Apple mini-shopping areas to its stores.
- If the idea doesn’t terrify you, Internet-connected cars and cars with apps were all the rage at CES.
- Austin’s Freescale is creating some of the technology for such on-the-road gear.
- The sad tale of the ringtone that interrupted the New York City Philharmonic.
- Kerfuffle over Google’s new tweaks to its search, which include Google+ info.
- Game update already announced for “Star Wars: The Old Republic.” It’s scheduled for Tuesday.
- BBB lists the biggest scams of 2011.
- Google Science Fair is open for submissions!
- Nominations for American Technology Awards are being sought.
- Hey, Wi-FI baby scale!
SXSW-related
- Registration prices for SXSW Interactive go up after today (Friday).
- TechKaraoke has been announced for March 10. You can already register.
- U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will be a keynote speaker at SXSWedu.
- In case you missed it, the hosts of the Interactive Awards were announced this week.
- Volunteers sought.
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