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Monday Morning Reads: Mobile Apps; LoTR Revisited; Funky SEO

Dave Fleet

Lots of really interesting reads in the Monday morning reading hopper this week: a look at why dictatorships would be unwise to cut Internet access; several pieces on the latest in mobile applications; a new take on the Lord of the Rings and a couple of neat videos. Fast Company: Google Gives More Prominence to Social Search.

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67% of Consumers Are More Likely To Purchase From Mobile-Friendly Sites

The Realtime Report

Nearly three-quarters (72%) of consumers think it’s important for brands to have a mobile-friendly site, according to a recent study by Google. Despite this clear expectation by consumers, nearly all of those surveyed (96%) have come across a site that wasn’t mobile-friendly, AdWeek reports. What happens when they do?

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Top Five: social networks push new shopping features

Sherrilynne Starkie

This week's top five must-know social media news come from LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, Google and Pinterest. New templates for collections ads are designed to deliver the rich experience of print catalogues on mobile. Google invests in real news quality. Top Five: social networks push new shopping features. Follow List.

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How to create mobile-friendly content with Google’s AMP

Socialmedia.biz

How Accelerated Mobile Pages can fuel your mobile marketing strategy. Target audience: Businesses, brands, mobile marketers, digital marketers, advertising agencies, SEO specialists, entrepreneurs, educators, journalists, Web publishers. Google is placing more and more emphasis on speed and mobile friendliness.

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Citizen Journalism: Who is a Journalist Today?

Proactive Report

Almost half of all Americans (47%) now get some form of local news on a mobile device. Citizen journalism doesn’t only apply to major political events or disasters. Citizen journalism is one of the hottest buzzwords in the news business right now. Many newsrooms are implementing some sort of citizen-journalism initiative.

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Social Media News Ticker: Facebook Launches “Nearby Friends”

The Realtime Report

Check out this week’s summary of all the latest social media news, including changes and new features for Facebook, Twitter and Google+: Facebook. Social Media News Ticker +Post ads AdSense Facebook geo-location Gnip Google mobile advertising MoPub Nearby Friends Twitter' Any social media updates that we missed?

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Facebook Is Looking Smarter Than Even

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It seems like only yesterday, when everybody was complaining about Facebook''s lack of a mobile presence. Their initial strikes at a mobile app were simply lesser versions of their Web-based experience. The output of this shift from Web-based to mobile-primed could not have happened at a better time. google plus.