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The Linkdown for Thursday, Jan. 19
The Linkdown is enjoying the unseasonably warm weather by staying inside and keeping the air conditioner company. If you’re indoors, too, you should know about these events and web things:
Events:
- CapMac Austin’s iPhone SIG meeting is tonight (Thursday).
- Accessibility Internet Rally, a web design competition, is open for registration. Deadline for submitting a URL is Feb. 15.
- MomCom Austin is on Saturday.
- Volunteers are being sought for Saturday’s LEGO League Invitational tourney.
- Austin Startup Olympics happen on Saturday. It’s a private event, but there’s a public afterparty at Club DeVille that night.
- Clockwork Con steampunk convention is in town this weekend.
- America’s Future Scientist fundraiser/event happens Sunday.
- A Future of Videogames in Austin panel will be held on Wednesday at the Texas Advanced Computing Center.
- The first Transmedia Austin meetup happens next Thursday. The topic is Transmedia in Music.
- Geek Bowl trivia is coming on Jan. 28.
- 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:
- AT&T is changing data rate plans (guess in which direction) and data limits.
- Intriguing new wearable gadget: Nike+ FuelBand.
- Doodle 4 Google contest is now open for students.
- Austin’s DadLabs wins an International Academy of Web Television Award for Best Educational Series.
- Austin-developed “Starhawk” for PlayStation 3 will be released on May 8. The public beta has already started.
- Apple’s big education/e-textbooks announcement from Thursday.
- Two former Dell employees implicated in insider trading scheme.
- Samsung apparently still doing some big expanding in its Austin operations.
- Why I won’t be calling new PC laptop “Ultrabooks” anymore. Sorry, Intel.
- Megaupload busted.
SXSW-related
- The official Interactive schedule is up on the SXSW website.
- Interactive Award finalists will be announced on Monday.
- Rainn Wilson will be doing a Saturday Interactive panel about his website SoulPancake.com.
- TechKaraoke has been announced for March 10. You can already register.
- Thomas Dolby is bringing his steampunky Time Capsule Tour to SXSW.
- Volunteers sought.
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