And a day later, Mr. Zuckerberg returned to Instagram, a service he hadn't used since the previous June, posting a photo on Instagram of his white Hungarian Puli, named Beast, "sleeping off the edge of the bed."

'gamification's rhetoric claims that this is a new, unexplored space in which we're just learning things for the first time. But in fact we already know a lot of things about how gamification works and doesn't work, and have done a lot of thinking about the relationships between things like extrinsic motivation, intrinsic motivation, and gameplay, and pretending that we don't know any of that isn't a good way to make progress. '

Kwickchex online reputation management company, ‘I looked at some of them and certainly the wording and the dates of the postings were indicative of a malicious attack.’

'The Wall Street Journal reports that recent weak pay-per-view and video-on-demand earnings reports from the likes of Time Warner Cable and DirecTV are prompting the companies to disclose that, when it was good, porn was a highly-profitable business for them. The paper says that cable companies used to have their own dirty little secret: they once commanded margins of over 90 percent on renting “generally interchangeable” (i.e. ho-hum) porn titles. '

'Historically we’ve used intuition to interact with our imagined audience, keeping mental models in our heads of what we think will be most entertaining and interesting. With the advent of social network spaces, we can leverage available data to power thoughtful decisions on ways to interact with an ever-growing networked audience.'