Dario Lowin recommended Android may be ‘Open,’ but who gives a crap? from m.digitaltrends.com:

Ironically, the best reasons to root – quick access to the latest version of Android via a custom ROM – is something Apple’s closed platform provides all of its customers.

Dario Lowin recommended Friends Don’t Let Friends Curate (FB’s Redesign) from medium.com:

The network that was built to connect people is transforming from a communication platform with sharing ability into a content platform with communication ability.

Dario Lowin recommended The Fertile Ashes of Google Reader from one37.net:

2013 is a monumental and utterly formative year for digital publishing. In my eyes, it's certainly no coincidence that RSS has been set free during this time. Readers are receptive, writers are experimenting, and publications are reforming. RSS stands to undergo a renaissance of relevance and that's certainly not a bad thing at all.

Dario Lowin recommended Roll over, Gutenberg from buzzmachine.com:

Germany, I fear, is not the land of innovation. It is a land of institutions.

Dario Lowin recommended Mike Beasley Goes Through The Impact Of Twitter's Display Guidelines On Tweetbot from benjaminmayo.co.uk:

It’s like a war of attrition: Twitter doesn’t want the bad PR from openly killing third-party clients, so instead they are making developers’ lives harder and harder to make them give up and quit.

Dario Lowin recommended Command-Tab on your iPad from the.taoofmac.com:

You switch on VoiceOver (preferably setting the triple-home shortcut to toggle it, since you’ll be needing it a lot more), and besides the rotor gestures (with which you’re advised to familiarize yourself with), you get a few interesting key combinations

Dario Lowin recommended Lessons From Disney from patrickrhone.com:

But, then, as we drove down the highway heading to the Magic Kingdom and came up over the hill to see the gate to Disney right in front of us, Bethany and I lost all semblance of parental cool. The whole car became giddy as we oohed and aahed at every new detail…

Dario Lowin recommended Ridiculous: 64GB Surface Pro to only include 23GB of usable space from owened.co.nz:

It’s unbelievable how ignorant Microsoft is being here. Consumers are going to be disappointed when they go out and buy a Surface Pro, come home, unbox it and find that it can actually only hold a measly 23GB of their stuff. And that’s before Windows Updates are run.

Dario Lowin recommended Monday, 7 January 2013, from the-pastry-box-project.net:

So this is the dirty little secret in our industry. The best designers and developers rarely have more talent. They simply have more time.

Dario Lowin recommended A Big Misunderstanding from daringfireball.net:

Apple is not selling caviar against cheese and crackers. They’re selling better-tasting cheese and crackers, and all you have to do is come into their store and taste some to believe for yourself. Anyone who believes Apple is about to have the rug pulled out from under the iPhone and iPad by commoditized Android devices should spend a few minutes inside an Apple retail store this holiday week.

Dario Lowin recommended Instagram Attempts to Monetize, World Doesn't End from one37.net:

if you're happy using a free service with an ever-improving app, happy engaging with a well-developed group of friends, and resigned to the fact that your next latté might stand an extraordinarily remote chance of ending up in someone's marketing materials, then stick with Instagram. But, please, let's stop fetching the fainting couch each time a business belatedly decides to initiate a vague attempt at actually making some money. For the time being, it's the way of the tech world and, without significant change, it will continue to be for quite some time.

Dario Lowin recommended Twitter adds filters, but misses the point from theverge.com:

In the end, Twitter’s missing the point by focusing so much on filters — it should instead focus on being Twitter.

Dario Lowin recommended On Phones and Death from ethankaplan.com:

We remember her as the grandma who called my sisters boyfriend an asshole in an e-mail, and volunteered to “sock him in the face.” She was 93 when she wrote that.

Dario Lowin recommended Papier, Schere, Klebe, Stift in der Zukunft from lumma.de:

“Papa, weisst Du was für eine App Du mal machen müsstest? Eine Keks App! Da kann man dann die Formen auswählen, Schoko dazu und Streusel und so und dann bekommt man ein paar Tage später die Kekse zugeschickt. Cool, oder?” Ja, sehr cool, zumal meine Tochter nicht seit Jahren Deutsche Startups, Gründerszene, Etailment oder Exciting Commerce liest und über den Trend der Mass Customization informiert ist und die Herausforderungen hinter MyMüsli und anderen Firmen kennt.

Dario Lowin recommended Apple and Twitter from patrickbgibson.tumblr.com:

Apple should buy Twitter not for its social network, but for its talent and technology. That talent and technology could undoubtably help bring Apple and iCloud into the 21st century. The social network is basically an added bonus.