If you don’t care about Windows 7 and are focused in on the new Apple update, you can now pre-order 10.6 Snow Leopard from Amazon. Snow Leopard is the refined OS X, making little quirks to the interface and speeding things up.
The upgrade is available for $29 (single license upgrade) and will be shipped sometime in September. If you purchased your Mac anytime after June 8 of this year, you can get a copy of Snow Leopard for $9.95 from Apple.
Amazon pulls no punches, choosing not to list a release date and reminding you that “only Apple OS X Leopard users are eligible for the Snow Leopard upgrade. Tiger & earlier OS users will need to purchase either versions of the upgraded Mac Box Set. Also, Snow Leopard will only run on intel-based Mac computers.”
So if you need to enjoy pre-ordering software at an affordable price (thank you Apple!), then head on over to get your copy of Snow Leopard reserved. And yes, I indulged my inner geek and pre-ordered my own copy.
Presented by The Society For Geek Advancement, “I AM A GEEK” brings together some of the biggest personalities and celebrities in the online space to proclaim their geek pride. “I AM A GEEK” also urges viewers and the community to “be the geek who keeps on giving”, and for the launch, has partnered with the non-profit Room To Read, building schools and libraries for children in developing countries around the world.
The video features:
Shaquille O’Neal (The Real Shaq), Steve Wozniak (Apple Co-founder), Kevin Pollak (Actor), Wil Wheaton (Star Trek: The Next Generation), LeVar Burton (Reading Rainbow, Star Trek: The Next Generation), Jason Calacanis (Internet Entrepreneur), Samm Levine (Actor), Felicia Day (Creator of The Guild / Actress), Kevin Rose (Co-Founder Digg, Revision3), Alex Albrecht (Co-Host Diggnation), Leo Laporte (Technology Journalist and Broadcaster), IJustine (Internet Celebrity / Lifecaster), David Karpe (Founder of Tumblr), Veronica Belmont (co-host of Revision3’s tech-centric show, Tekzilla,), Sarah Lacy (Sillicon Valley Journalist and Author), Randi Zuckerberg (Marketing Director Facebook), Pete Cashmore (Founder of Mashable), Tony Hsieh (CEO of Zappos.com), Gary Vaynerchuk (Wine Library TV), Jonathan Coulton (Famed Singer-Song Writer), Kevin Pereira (The Cable Television Darling), Tay Zonday (YouTube celebrity), Julia Allison (Internet Celebrity, Lifecaster), Julia Roy (Blogger), Marina Orlova (HotForWords, YouTube Internet Celebrity), Shira Lazar (On-air personality, blogger), and yours truly.
During SXSW Interactive 2009, interesting, notable, and unexpected geeks as well as the Internet Famous filled the streets in and around the conference and the after hours parties.
Some of my best encounters happened simply by walking from point A to point B.
I’ll let the pictures tell the rest of the stories…
Corvida
Drew Olanoff shows us the bid-winning @melaniemitchell tattoo
Chris Brogan, @geekmommy, Justin Levy throw up Hashtag signs
Dan Patterson of ABC
Sarah Townsend performs on a random Austin street corner
SXSW Interactive is powered by the one thing that binds us together, you. It is a congregation of wisdom, artistry, and poetry and it is the foundation for why we each make this annual migration to Austin, Texas.
This year we lined up something special for SXSW and you helped it reach epic status. The TechSet Blogger Lounge sponsored by Windows Mobile was the hub for collaboration, networking, and celebration each and everyday during the conference.
The agenda was rich with activities, entertainment, tweetups, and resources, but you made it unforgettable, fun, and also productive.
MySpace Music threw an exclusive party during the Web 2.0 Summit that fused Los Angeles style with San Francisco architecture. Contrary to other reports, this party was not only one of the highlights of the Summit, but one of the more memorable parties associated with any tech conference in recent history.
Thrown at the old mint in San Francisco, MySpace invited Lionel Richie and DJ AM to entertain the anxious and excited crowd. Not only were the invigorating conversations and connections abundant throughout the entire mint, laughter and fun filled the air while the geeks also danced the night away until the early hours of the morning.
I’ll let the pictures tell the rest of the story…
Lionel Richie
DJ AM
DJ AM
Chris DeWolfe and Tom Foremski
Bryan Thatcher of Empressr and Michael Birch, Co-Founder of Bebo
iJustine – Justine Ezarik
Ellen McGirt of Fast Company
Caroline McCarthy of CNET
Gabe Rivera of Techmeme
Cathy Brooks of Seesmic and Gregarious Greg Narain of BlueWhaleLabs
Irina Slutsky of GETV and Nick O’Neill
Brady Forrest of O’Reilly
Dave McClure
Hammer, Ron Conway, Dave Morin
Tara Hunt, Jennifer Hussein Pahlka
Joseph Smarr and John McCrea of Plaxo
MC Hammer of DanceJam
Janetti Chon
Cupcakes!
Ben Metcalfe and Cathy Brooks
Brandee Barker of Facebook
Jacob Mullins & Team VentureBeat: Anthony Ha, Dean Takahashi and MG Siegler
Dean Takahashi and Brian Solis
John Furrier
Brandee Barker, Heather Harde, Mike Maser
MG Siegler and Leah Culver
Peter Pham and Mike Morin
Debbie Landa, Kristen O’Brien (Dealmaker Media) and Shay Nowick
Sarah Delman Brown and Cathy Brooks
For more pictures from the MySpace Music party, please visit my album on flickr.
If you don’t care about Windows 7 and are focused in on the new Apple update, you can now pre-order 10.6 Snow Leopard from Amazon. Snow Leopard is the refined OS X, making little quirks to the interface and speeding things up.
