Major search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo don't exactly do a great job in assisting either, which might be due to the growing influence and spam of 'Search Engine Optimization (SEO)' gurus, engines and companies. Well, we still have Diigo , Stumble Upon , Digg , and a bunch of other cool social bookmarking tools to use. However, today there is a new wave of social bookmarking tools in the name of ' Social Curation ' that are empowered with some really innovative features and tools to discover, manage and share resources. thanks to SEO strategies. Scoop.it MORE >>

Tools these days come in three flavors. Authoring Tools for developers. The biggest problem facing the industry in the past few years are the lack of course authoring tools for e-learning developers and instructional designers. Sure, you can use the extensive list of tools on the market, but for those who want real power and complexity ala from the days of Authorware, pickings are slim. Professional Presenter X – comes with  sim tool, assessment, capture tool, documents to flash tool, etc. MLOAT - Multimedia Learning Object Authoring Tool.  MORE >>

Here are some of the tools I added to my repertoire of handy freebies in 2009. Egoboo tools help you find yourself, you narcissist. Similar Site searches for sites with similar content to yours. Tags: Tools Activity streams are sort of in between Twitter and Blogs. Rypple is a web-based app that makes it easy to gather anonymous feedback quickly. Alltop aggregates headlines around any topic. This one ’s on eLearning. Pindax is an online message board. TinyChat is your free online chat rom. MORE >>

Enter the choices … some are for searching Twitter, others are to backup your Twitter data. Twitter Search. Search Twitter with the proper and official search tool, but it won’t go back very far or take into account your messages or favourites (like other services do). Here you have the ability to search than just your own timeline; search messages you have received and sent, search someone else’s timeline (not just your own), someone else’s tweets as well as tweets that mention you. Google Site Search. MORE >>

Today I completed Google’s Power Searching Course. Do I know any more about search than I did ten days ago? You can narrow a search by date. Previously I approached Google searches much like looking something up in an encyclopedia or dictionary. After the course, I treat search more as an iterative process. pre-search can inform the real search. Or after the first search, I can add to the query to zoom in on what I’m after. Search has become a process, not an event. The depth of their search capability is amazing. MORE >>