I've been told recently that one of the things that people like most about my blog is the cool new tools I find and share with the eLearnDev community. Well, here's the motherload of all developer tool lists compliments of Mashable.com . It's going to take me weeks to get through this list, but I'm glad its there when I need to look for this kind of stuff. I've already found some seriously cool nuggets that I'm hoping will be as cool as they look. Let me know if you find something cool and use it for an elearning project. Enjoy!

Silke Fleischer blogged about the latest eLearning Guild Handbook of eLearning Strategy She also adds a WONDERFUL chart for Development Tool Selection. This is going to save me hours of explaining. THANKS Silke!!! Adobe solutions supporting the eLearning Development Model Download HERE DevLearn - The eLearning Development Conference & Expo Co-located with the Adobe Learning Summit November 5-9, 2007 San Jose, ...

Last month (October 2008) the members of the New Tools for Learning Club discussed the use of 5 tools for learning and performance support: GoAnimate - create and share animations in mere minutes SlideRocket - everything you need to make great presentations Edmodo - Microblogging for the classroom Yammer - Microblogging for the enterprise Plaxo - Stay in touch with the people you care about and October's favourite tool was SLIDEROCKET. Join the 86 members of the Club to discuss and vote for a further 5 tools this month in November.

Articulate Studio '09 has just been released after extensive beta testing. Studio '09 significantly upgrades popular Articulate products and introduces a new video encoder. Studio '09 Professional includes four integrated tools: Articulate Presenter '09, Articulate Quizmaker '09, Articulate Engage '09, and Articulate Video Encoder '09 . Other new features include branching, animated annotations, and community-developed interactions. You can download free trials at Articulate.

Very interesting UK-based Ning site - in their own words: The New Tools for Learning Club works like a Book Club. Every month we'll look at 5 new, upcoming or unrecognised tools and discuss their use for education, training or performance support. The tools will either be free or free trials of commercial tools. Check it out and comment here!

Guild's latest research report on authoring and development tools proves otherwise. Just look at these results, showing the market share of tools in various categories: Rapid development tools: #1 Captivate (65% of Guild members); #4 Presenter (26%) Courseware authoring, i.e. more serious tools: #1 Captivate (60%); #2 Flash (47%); #3 Dreamweaver (43%); #5 Authorware (16%). Simulation tools: #1 Captivate (79%); #2 Flash (45%). Audio recording (!!!!): #1 Captivate (44 ... proportion of survey respondents may use Captivate, it isn't necessarily the tool they use most frequently. Although that ...

Clipmarks : I'm starting to feel the outlines of this class of tools that includes Zotero , Evernote and Clipmarks ... training. We thought "we know ISD and we can use this authoring tool, therefore we can make good e-learning" ... talk to more enterprise people about 2.0 tools, delicious is one that they consistently seem to be able to ...

Quenchmark is a user-generated website with topics, questions, and answers. Quenchmark is the new social networking tool for opinion polls, surveys, and data validation." ...

Yet another great video from CommonCraft.  This one about Google Reader: Google Reader is currently in joint 3rd position (with Skype) on the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2008 list .  Read why it is so popular here .  And because of this , It's also one of the 25 Tools every learning professional should have in their toolbox .

Some updated tools lists this week from: Nick Hood   -  Nick is a physics and mathematics teacher in Fife, with 25 years in industry. Debbie ... Pellissippi State Tec One new tools list this week from: Tiago Goncalves Tiago is an instructional designer at LearnAbout in Portugal Please note that I am going to be closing the Top 10 Tools list activity on Friday 31 October 2008 , in order to finalise the Top 100 Tools list for this year.  Please do share your favourites or ...

Zoho has just announced significant updates to Zoho Show, its presentation application. Here are some of the new features: Export to PPT, PPS , PDF, ODP 11 new languages Picasa and flickr integration Personal groups and contacts support Embed enhancements Remote presentations The update follows on the heels of recent updates to Zoho Writer and Zoho Sheet. Zoho Suite [Zoho is ranked 36= on our Top 100 Tools for Learning .  You can read the comments from those who selected it as one of their Top 10 Tools here ] ...

Michael wrote to tell me about Wisdomap, a mind mapping tool "With Wisdomap we have focussed on bringing our mind maps back to basics - colourful, clean, simple and visually appealing - to maximise the gains from visual and spatial memory. We have included advanced functionality, such as the ability to attach of text, videos, images, links and so on, but kept it outside the map area and focussed on providing visual cues for these as well." They would appreciate feedback on the first version of the product. Wisdomap [ C4LPT: 29 mind mapping and brainstorming tools ] ...

Former Google employees have unveiled a search engine that they say will be more comprehensive than Google's and will give its users more relevant results.  Cuil (pronounced "cool") launches with 120 billion web pages in its index.  Cuil is an old Irish word for knowledge. Cuil [C4LPT: 40+ (Re)search tools ] ...

Soshiku is a tool that manages a student's school or college assignments. Soshiku keeps track of when assignments are due and can notify the student via email or SMS. And since some assignments require group work, students can "partner up" on Soshiku and share files, chat, and more.

Here you can create, and analyze surveys  for FREE !! 12 Reasons you should join Kwik Surveys today. There are NO hidden subscription charges, its FREE ! They do not send unsolicited emails Free and easy to use Instant survey results Customizable Logo's and themes User support forums Downloadable survey results Email Notifications Email Facility 1000's of users world wide Secure and Reliable service NO advertising Kwik Surveys [C4LPT: 55 Polling and Survey Tools ] ...

Convos is a fast, elegant way to manage groups of people online. Everyone stays connected via group email and everything is accessible from the rich, ad-free online application. Start Convos Groups to connect people and keep them productive. Whether it's for friends, colleagues, or classmates, a Convos Group keeps everyone focused. Every group comes with simple tools to invite members, send group emails, schedule group events with RSVP, store group files, and assign group tasks!

Each room in OpenHuddle is designed to give you the freedom to interact with as many or as few people as you would like, in whatever way you want! Video, Audio, Text Chat and Drawing Board tools are available to use in whatever way you see fit. Just invite others a Huddle and start interacting ...  as little as a webcam and a headset/microphone.

HTML clipboard Need a poll for your website or blog and don't want to spend an arm and a leg on a custom solution? Poll Authority is a recognized leader in polling software. Their approach to poll creation allows anyone to create customized polls to add to their website, blog, or personal page. Signup for your FREE Poll Authority account today and see how easy adding a poll to your website can be! In less than a minute you can be creating unique and custom polls that match your website theme and style! Poll Authority [C4LPT: 50+ polling and survey tools here ] ...

Delicious has just launched a major update.  As the delicious blog says: "The new Delicious is just like the old del.icio.us, only faster, easier to learn, and hopefully more delightful to use and to look at." They are also "flipping the switch on the new web site: delicious.com . Take a look at all the new features here and/or view the video below: Remember, delicious tops our Top 100 Tools for Learning 2008 list, this is what other learning professionals think about it .

Capture Fox Movie is a Firefox add-on and a handy tool to create tutorials about a software, a web site or anything that can be displayed on your computer. It records your screen frame by frame. You can also record your voice. Features Capture screen, record your sound and get an AVI (movie) file. Adjust video quality Easy to use. With two clicks, you can start capturing your screen and record your sound. Best of all, it is FREE :) CaptureFox [via Digital Inspiration ] ...

With Edicy everyone can create a website with ease. There are tens of designs to choose from and a website can be up and running in minutes - for free. Edicy is mostly used by small businesses, startups, non-profits and freelancers alike. They aim to be the simplest web editor around, focusing on easiness of use, great designs and reliability of customer support (users can contact them via Skype chat). They have been workong hard on achieving this, and have now been selected  for LeWeb08 finals. Edicy [More web authoring tools ] ...

What is KallOut? KallOut is the first application to bring "selection-based search" to any web page, email, presentation, document, spreadsheet or PDF. Unlike other search methods that are trapped inside the browser, KallOut serves up content from the most popular sites on the web inside floating information palettes). Using only your mouse, you can now avoid the disruption of launching a browser and let KallOut bring you the best the web has to offer. How do you use KallOut? KallOut is designed to seamlessly integrate into the everyday tools you already use. There is NO ...

Yammer is Twitter for businesses!  This is what they say about themselves: Yammer is a tool for making companies and organizations more productive through the exchange of short frequent answers to one simple question: "What are you working on?" As employees answer that question, a feed is created in one central location enabling co-workers to discuss ideas, post news, ask questions, and share links and other information. Yammer also serves as a company directory in which every employee has a profile and as a knowledge base where past conversations can be ...

... watch it...the whole thing...I'm a guy...I never read/listen to instructions...what's up with that!? I like tools that ... capture. I grab the Skitch logo. So cool and so easy. Text tool: I write "SO COOL" on the screenshot. Now the ...

Browsing the net for web2.0 tools left me with a void: what about my graphic diary - PLE? since I was a child I make drawings in my diary. Now that I have crossed the digital bridge, I blog, but I just cannot seem to find a tool that enables me to make a graphic evolutionary diary. You know the Chinese/Ethiopian/Japanese scrolls? ( a nice online example ) The really long ones that have a book/movie-like feeling because of the big amount of images used. I have diaries just ... . Does any of you know a tool that makes this possible? or would anybody be interested on working on such a tool?

... undo-able, even in the presence of other editors. Of course, EtherPad is a tool for a specific purpose, ...

While reorganising my netvibes . Must confess the learning curves for using new softwares that link to a personal knowledge environment are getting smaller and smaller.

Here are some more interesting, and in some cases very different, sites that I've stumbled upon recently: Binary - it's digitalicious SoundStorm - royalty free sounds from Oscar winning Hollywood sound effects designers Free hotspot - find free wifi hotspots  UPDATED URL Firefox 3 Easter Eggs - "some moderately amusing Easter Eggs in Firefox 3" ...

Luna at CoolIris wrote to tell me about PicLens "the personal favorite add-on of Mozilla CEO John Lilly". She explains:: "PicLens heralds the next generation platform for viewing online images and videos by transforming the browser into a stunning, full-screen 3D experience on websites such as YouTube, Flickr, Google Image Search, and others. You can also virtually "window shop" Amazon and channel surf the latest news, sports, and entertainment feeds on the PicLens "3D Wall" interface." ...

HTML clipboard Automatically blog your life: Effortless life stream - Brings all your web content together into a blog format. Swurl supports your existing blog, pictures, links, videos, and more. Vibrant conversations - Encourages conversations, not just comments. Swurl conversations are easy to write, read, and watch. Find your friends - Finds your friends on other sites and automatically gives you a feed of their activity.