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Entries for February, 2008

Yahoo Launches New Bookmarking Site to Compete with Self

As many of you probably know, Yahoo! is the owner of the del.icio.us bookmarking service which is hugely popular across the internet.
As I was trying to submit a site to Yahoo’s Site Manager yesterday, I was instead redirected to a new Yahoo Bookmarking site at beta.bookmarks.yahoo.com.
Interested as always in a new bookmarking site, I thought [...]

Weekly Squidoo News in Review – Monthly Wrap Up

Since this is the last Squidoo News edition of the month, I thought I’d wrap up some of the exciting new additions to the world of Squidoo in February. As the end of the month draws near, make sure you spruce up your lenses one last time for that April payout!
I received a mention in [...]

My Squidoo Dashboard Wishlist

I’ve been trying to pound out some lenses today and have been struggling (as usual) with the unwieldy size of my dashboard. Having 300 lenses listed in one place is great for my ego, but not for getting anything productive done. Opening multiple accounts doesn’t really solve much but forcing me to remember more logins [...]

Squidoo Tool: Free Ebay RSS Feed Generator

I’ve gotten a lot of questions the past 3 days about the RSS feed generator for Ebay Affiliates that I created. In order to help answer them, I’ve created a trial version of the Ebay Affiliate Tool so you can try it out and see how awesome it is. Here are the limitations of the [...]

Weekly Squidoo News in Review – Duel the Monkey

Some fun new developments this week.
BDKZ has started a blog devoted to Hey! Monkeybrain called Cowabunga!. I think it’s a great and original concept that allows blogging about hot issues (Like Pirates Vs. Ninjas) while incorporating Squidoo at the same time. Very fun and very cool. Great job BDKZ ! (Psst… Ive got a few [...]

New Squidoo Training Center Now Open

The Captain has been slaving over a hot computer monitor all weekend getting a new treat ready for you all. There is now a separate part of the Captain Squid site where I’ve compiled resources, tools, and other nifty stuff to help you guys make more money as quickly as possible. The ‘Tools’ section and [...]

Squidoo SquidZippers is Live in Stealth Mode

Hello my Roving Pirate Band,
I’ve found a new Squidoo co-Brand for you all to plunder :
http://www.squidoo.com/zippers-realtors/hq
It looks like the Squid Zippers site is live in a very stealthy way (At least I haven’t seen any announcement of it) .
The branding is similar to the SquidWho site at first glance, with a few new modules being [...]

Weekly Squidoo News: Monkey Brain Edition

Wow, that was a friggin quick week!� Let’s get right too it -
Squidoo HQ announced the release of their next front door : Hey MonkeyBrain. This is a debate themed site where the magic build lenses are designed around two sides to an argument. I thought something like this might have been in the works, [...]

Squidoo Plexos : Super Tool or Old and Busted?

I think that the ‘Plexo’ modules on Squidoo are probably one of the least understood aspects of Squidoo. I have always been kind of ambivalent towards all of the plexo modules just because I never really saw how they could benefit me. Until Now.
The Real Facts about Plexo Modules:

Votes are pooled across all versions of [...]

February 2008 Squidoo Earnings Payout Tops $600

It’s my favorite day of the month! Booty Day!
Here’s the Breakdown:
Squidoo Payout: $247.98
CJ: $401.69
Total: $649.67
Lenses Built : 32 (woefully short of the number I need to get to 1,000 lenses)
Total Lenses (as of 2/7/08) : 283
Where the lenses fall: (These numbers should be read as ‘the number of lenses in the top X,XXX on my [...]