Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) will be temporarily opening a retail store inside the Scarbrough Building on Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas. Apple is tailoring the store to appeal to potential customers attending the South by Southwest Interactive Conference. The Apple retail store in downtown Austin will be selling the new iPad 2. The Apple retail store in Austin, Texas will be 5,000 square feet and it will be temporary. Apple also has a full service store at Barton Creek Square mall in Southern Austin and at the Domain mall in Northern Austin. [Statesman.com]

Nikon and Yfrog are teaming up to create a gallery of pictures and videos of the South by Southwest conference.  “In addition to viewing content and posting comments, site visitors and attendees can use yfrog to upload images and videos to the Nikon gallery by using the hashtags “#SXSW” or “#SWSWpics” share content through their own social networks, and follow a real-time Twitter feed on the site,” said Katie Carlson of AtomicPR.

Between Nikon and Yfrog they hired five popular bloggers to post videos with Nikon digital cameras.  These five bloggers include Jeff Pulver, Chris Brogan, Sarah Austin, Marko Slavnic, and Brooklyn Vegan.  The gallery is live at http://www.yfrog.com/Nikon.

At the “Bigg Digg Shindigg” event in Austin, Texas at the South by Southwest conference Digg CEO Jay Adelson revealed that the company is launching a new user interface some time in the near future. It is rumored that there will be personalized feeds and the return of the Digg leaderboard in the new UI. There should also be one click URL submissions too. You can sign up to view the alpha version at New.Digg.com.  [Mashable]