Todd Simmons

EA Sports’ decision to open a new studio in Austin is great news for the local game dev community: http://t.co/0F3FBWb

Everyone’s hyped about Spotify’s U.S. launch, but will Turntable.fm end up being a bigger deal for music nerds? http://t.co/q4CH54O

Unemployment remains stubbornly high, but there are plentiful jobs at tech companies: http://t.co/l5bKuy6 It feels weird and very lucky.

Great video about disruption of sectors with entrenched interests, like education, finance, and government: http://t.co/rua11Xv

A guy in Austin made a super-trippy “audio fable” by chopping up and rearranging one of Obama’s audiobooks: http://t.co/YshWuEp

Can someone invoke the 5th amendment to avoid being forced to unlock their own encrypted data? http://t.co/nOn3rxJ

The internet has proven amazingly efficient at identifying people (and organizing into mobs to attack them online): http://t.co/16mDUDN

I think patents definitely have their place, but they’re being used like a protection racket in the mobile space: http://t.co/n2aF8SG

Interesting upcoming game from Jonathan Mak (Everyday Shooter). It’s a musical sequencer combined with platformer: http://t.co/DdXWEHw

How do violent videogame affect kids? Some interesting study results that support both sides of the debate: http://t.co/auuk2ig