Video games are the new Thin Mints: Girl Scouts add new badge for game design + MORE

The world’s largest Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has once again been hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. At the time of writing, the site has been down for over three hours, as the company scrambles to fight back.
On Facebook and Twitter, the company first informed its users that it was experiencing an outage and then later followed up to confirm the source was indeed yet another DDoS attack…

When I was a Girl Scout, I earned badges for setting up camping tents, jewelry making, or volunteering at an animal shelter. However the newest badge to join the Girl Scout roster is for something slightly more practical.
The Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles and Women in Games International (WIGI) have joined forces to create a video game developer badge…

This week on Sprout Social Insights we tackled guides for Facebook, Twitter, and to help you better reach your customers with the social media tools that make a difference.
Check out our articles below to find out more about each one and how they can help you with your social media goals. And check in every day to Sprout Social Insights for more how to guides and breaking social media news…

A U.S. spaceflight company is hoping the third time’s the charm in order to launch a brand-new rocket into space on its maiden flight on Sunday (April 21).
After two delayed launch attempts, the privately built Antares rocket is once again poised to blast off from a seaside pad at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore…

Need a little weekend reading? We’ve compiled our top ten Twitter stories of the week, which includes a look at the latest social media user demographics, a study which suggests 12 different types of social media personality (which one are you?), how to do a competitor analysis on Twitter (for free), a visual that asks if your business is monitoring what matters on social media and the state of B2B social media 2013…