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Google hurriedly introduced business/brand pages feature into its latest social networking platform Google Plus (Google+) on Monday, to serve the equivalent of the ever popular Facebook Pages. It intends to serve as a means of promoting businesses and brands, whereas such feat is only attainable with great pool of users on hand.

Guidelines for the branding permissions.

Branding permissions for Google.

42% per capita penetration for smartphones in NZ! Would not have guessed is was this high.

"...students may be asked a question like 'Are you a runner?' when they log into the learning-management system. If a student checks 'yes,' he or she will thereafter see ads for a certain brand of running shoes on the home page."<--quick Troy write a plugin for Moodle!

A branded but fairly standard Moodle setup run by University of Capetown reported to be the kind of LMS portal that the new Dean of Management is very keen on (via Michele Schoenburger-Orgad)

This and that from internet, entertainment, media and brands -Cool photos with savvy text attached

"If the mission of the university is the creation of knowledge (via research) and the dissemination of knowledge (via teaching and publishing), then it stands to reason that giving that knowledge away fits neatly with that mission. And the branding benefits are clear."

Another nail in the coffin of the digital native narrative. Teens are un-appy!

Brand new journal with some elearning stuff. Open access too.

Goodbye Blogger & Picassa; Hello Google Blogs & Google Photos.