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Thursday, February 16, 2012
The Linkdown for Thursday, Feb. 16
Aurora, a female mountain lion at the Austin Zoo, licks a frozen bloodcicle to keep cool in this July 2011 photo. Terrifying, no? Photo by Rodolfo Gonzalez / AMERICAN-STATESMAN
The Linkdown has a deep, irrational fear of mountain lions and is therefore a little ambivalent about Apple’s next Mac OS version. Here is other, non-mountain lion-related stuff you should be checking out online.
Events:
- CapMac iPhone group meeting on Thursday (tonight).
- MapMyFitness co-founder Robin Thurston will be on MashUP Radio at 2 p.m. Friday.
- Discover East Austin Mobile PhotoWalk is on Saturday.
- FIRST Tech Challenge Robotics Tournament (qualifying round) happens on Saturday.
- ProductCamp Austin 8 is also on Saturday.
- Next Social Media Club meeting is on Tuesday.
- There’ll be a National STEM video game challenge TweetChat on Wednesday.
- Code for America ATX Hackathon is on Saturday, Feb. 25.
- ONA Austin meeting on broadcast TV and new media happens on Feb. 27.
- Convergent Media Lab lecture event on Feb. 29.
- Statesman Social Media Awards on Feb. 29.
- Dad 2.0 Summit hits Austin March 8-10.
Internet goodness:
- H&R Block’s mobile tax app and filing service is free till Feb. 29.
- Yes, lots of apps are raiding your address book without explicit permission.
- Apple’s iChat is morphing into the more iOS-like “Messages.” The free beta version is available for download.
- Another thing to do on the aging Nintendo Wii: watch Hulu Plus video.
- Ballet Austin’s got an app!
- Redbeacon, which puts homeowners in touch with home improvement professionals, has expanded to Austin.
- Microsoft is tracking web buzz with its new msnNOW service.
- Mobile app from the Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau features local deals, too.
- Making virtual apes seem more human.
- How are children using tablets? Let’s ask Nielsen!
- Nonprofit folks: Paypal is providing funds for 150 scholarships to attend the Innogive conference. Deadline to apply is March 7.
- NPR Music App is now available for iPad.
- Austin is the 10th-riskiest city for cybercrime, according to Norton.
- AMD among top 10 most trustworthy public companies, according to Trust Across America.
- Austin-developed “Star Wars: The Old Republic” is expanding to Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore on March 1.
- Free demo of Austin-developed “SOL: Exodus” is now available.
- U-Verse iPad app?
- Blizzard has 4,700 employees worldwide, some of those in Austin.
- Video game character get real in Facebook photos.
SXSW-related
- App Hackathon announced for March 9-10.
- Did you see our party guide?
- Apple’s rumored iPad 3 launch in early March makes us think there’ll be another iPad/Apple pop-up store downtown during the fest.
- SXSWedu speaker LeVar Burton is bringing back “Reading Rainbow” with an app.
- You can vote for the Interactive Awards’ People’s Choice here.
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