Todd Simmons

Former Excel 2013 designer has totally reimagined the spreadsheet for tablets, with innovative UI and unique features: http://t.co/3Ww1eNIx

Are high piracy rates forcing mobile game devs to adopt a freemium model? I’m a little skeptical about the 60% figure: http://t.co/SU6e54vh

PlaySquare is an impressive interactive kids’ TV show for iPad created by folks from PBS, Nickelodeon, & MIT Media Lab: http://t.co/pxOe0yKH

Apple v. Samsung has been fascinating. Where else can you get detailed testimony by the original Mac icon designer? http://t.co/g5K2TdUX

Does the Zynga meltdown mean social games are a lost cause? No, it just means we need to build more compelling ones: http://t.co/8eE9DgYE

HTML5 game dev company Artillery outlines the six thorny problems they’re tackling to bring AAA games to the browser: http://t.co/M6yLEZMe

And now Facebook has squashed a company that was building on its platform and potentially interfered with monetization: http://t.co/rk3GZURZ

Then Apple places strict requirements on apps that wish to be sold in the Mac App Store (following in steps of iOS): http://t.co/THHv1z4S

Walled gardens and sandboxes are definitely ascendant in tech these days. First, Twitter tries to emulate Facebook: http://t.co/VcX73kX1

The latest issue of Google’s Think Quarterly is focused on “Play” and features several fantastic articles about games: http://t.co/5s40JTmr