25 Unmissable Social Media Articles Worth Reading This Weekend – 30th Apr

These are never breaking news stories but rather some of the deepest thinkers and smartest minds from the world of technology and social media, offering their thoughts and views regarding the biggest stories of the week.

You won’t make it through them all in one sitting but it’ll bring you up to speed with this week’s happenings. So just sit back, grab a coffee and enjoy.

- Five tips for great content curation.
- You really can blame the Web for shrinking TV ratings – but you have to credit it for boosting TV, too.

- Why Microsoft’s mobile comeback is looking terrible.

- Freemium games are the ticket to app profits, study shows.

- Meet Google’s secret weapon for fighting Apple and Microsoft.


- Nokia: three big problems for deposed king of mobile phones.
- How ‘human-assisted reporting’ could help journalists find big stories.

- Twitter feeds as newspapers: a look at the tiny-printer trend.
- Why Apple’s growth hinges on China.

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