A recent Guy Kawasaki How to Change the World post linked to a 6 minute video by Lewis Howes on 8 ways to use social media. A quick summary:

1. Be yourself
2. Get active on at least Facebook Twitter and LinkedIn
3. Provide awesome content
4. Be smart with your time
5. Be consistent
6. Promote others
7. Connect face to face
8. Thank others

Lewis' video adds a lot more detail, so check it out.

A Lightspeed Ventures blog post describes the profitability and valuation challenges in the gaming industry, and points to 3 problems in the gaming business:

1. High cost to launch a new game
2. Low number of new games launched each year
3. Low probability of each game being a “hit”

If you're in, or looking at entering, a gaming market, you might want to check out the

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In a Wall Street Journal article, Chris Anderson observes that when both investment dollars and acquisitions were easier to come by, it was perhaps viable to give away web based services for free -- but today both investment money and acquisition are questionable options, and web companies may actually have to shift to business models that involve making money:

What about those companies trying to build a business on the Web?

In a post to The Brain Fitness Authority blog, Dr. Bill Klemm (author of "Thank You, Brain, For All You Remember. What You Forgot Was My Fault") suggests that social media is not so great for memory, or for grades in school:

Our brain works hard to fool us into thinking it can do more than one thing at a time. It can't. Recent MRI studies at Vanderbilt prove that the brain is not built for good multi-tasking.