John Stokdyk, Traningzone’s technology editor looks at the adoption of mobile learning technologies. (Via Boggs e-Learning Chronicle)

This is a link to an interesting article titled “10 Practical Uses for Psychological Research in Everyday Life” and also for the blog hosting the article. PsyBlog is authored by Jeremy Dean covers interesting studies in Psychology.

Speed of creativity has posted a guide to internet research using Google’s notebook web utilityk.

Bryan Chapman at Brandon Hall Research extracts data from research reports and compares how long it takes to create different types of learning.

How long does it take to create learning?

We are fans of Creative Commons as it allows others to re-use content created by us as long as they attribute us and follow the conditions laid out by us. Blog based or online content can be easily marked up with the appropriate Creative Commons license by embedding a small piece of HTML code from creativecommons.org.

But what about Word and Powerpoint files? What if we wanted to apply these licenses to our office documents. Microsoft Research has just unveiled a new add-in (as a part of tools for scientific community) that lets you do just that.

This add-in for Microsoft Office Word 2007, Office PowerPoint 2007, and Office Excel 2007 enables individuals to embed a Creative Commons license directly into their Microsoft Office documents. The add-in allows an author of a Microsoft Office document to choose a Creative Commons license from those available on the Creative Commons Web site (by using the Creative Commons Web service). The embedded license links directly to its online representation on the Creative Commons Web site while a machine-readable representation is stored in the Office Open XML document. By using Creative Commons licenses, you can express your intentions regarding how others may use your work.

The add-on currently only works on the Windows version of Microsoft Office.

I have been trying out another new search engine Cuil.com. Cuil is created by ex-employees of Google. The search box itself like Google is simple.

As you type in your search term, Cuil shows you possible choices.

The search results are laid out in a clean 2-column or 3-column layout

Another useful feature is the “Explore by Category” block on the right. This block features topics related to our search term.

Bill Ellet at Training Media Review explains why training industry awards contests are not very helpful. (via willatworklearning.com)

Many a times I need to send the URL of an interesting article to friends or colleagues. For instance this particular post about storytelling from the Presetation Zen blog.

If you notice the URL, you will find that it is very long. If I am going to email it or send it over MSN, it might get truncated and when my contact receives it, she might not be able to click on it. It is also not suitable for posting over microblogging services such as Twitter as they limit the number of character you can post.

I have started using this new URL shortening service called is.gd

Just paste your long URL into is.gd and hit the “Compress That Address” button.

And is.gd creates a smaller URL for you. Note that the new URL is 78 characters shorter. When you type this new short URL into your browser, you will be redirected to the original web page.

Google has unveiled its wikipedia style knowledge database project Knol.

Knol allowes anyone to create an article on a topic. The author can allow collaboration if he or she wants it.

The articles can be rated, commented on and also reviewed by other users. Writers can also monetize their articles via Google’s Adsense platform.

I am going to start and article on Knol and come back with another post on how it compares to Wikipedia.

Anna Farmery at The Engaging Brand offers five suggestions that might help you avoid a social media burnout.