RSS feeds, Twitter search, and Google Alerts are all excellent free resources. also get a lot of good ideas from the people I follow on Twitter and my Facebook friends. So far I am very pleased with the variety of reports and the ability to focus searches to reduce false positives. Pipl is a people search tool. MORE >>

Here’s the Scoop: Knowledge Plaza has been developed as a Web-based platform for enterprise search, social bookmarking, knowledge management, information brokerage and expert identification. The dashboard aggregates activity and content from people in your network and your workspaces.  Advanced Search and Browse. Plaza. MORE >>

Quick update (1/5/2008) - I feel much better now - 3 people have searched and found me through the highly relevant search - incredibly cool elearning guy. Interestingly, Google has managed to find this particular post as the one that is most relevant to that term. But at least I'm not top ten lamest people! MORE >>

For instance, now that we have access to people and knowledge, learning is ‘network creation’ and that we can learn through ‘collaborative meaning making’. People like information conveyed through conversations and stories because the interactivity and detail gives them context, not just content, and does so economically. References. MORE >>

10 Search Engines to Explore the Deep End of the Invisible Web By Saikat Basu on Mar. The Invisible Web refers to the part of the WWW that’s not indexed by the search engines. Most of us think that that search powerhouses like Google and Bing are like the Great Oracle…they see everything. Now, 183511 members! data mining. MORE >>