After taking the last few weeks to take care of stuff before I moved to Asia for the forseeable future, the Captain is now up and running in Singapore! For those of you keeping track that puts me at GMT +8 or roughly 12 hours off of most timezones in the US.
Which means that I’ll [...]
I know posting has been a bit light the past few weeks by yours truly, but some developments have taken place in that place outside of the box on my desk that were demanding my attention.
I’m super excited to announce that I have taken a position with a company called the American Bureau of Shipping [...]
Pot Pie Girl released a list of the Top 100 Squidoo Blogs over the weekend and guess who is topping the charts?
Yours Truly!
Make sure and go check out the list, there are some great blogs on there that are worth taking a look at. Pot Pie Girl has also left admissions open, so if you [...]
Since our little piratey band has grown so much since January (like 800% !) I thought that it was appropriate to take a post and recap what you folks thought were the best posts of the past year as well as some of my personal favorites.
The Most Visited Blog Posts on Captain Squid in 2008
Can [...]
For the first time in a month, I’m home with time to work on various squidoo activities. This is probably one of the last weekends to get content published before Christmas and get it indexed and ranking high enough to get some traffic.
If you are working this weekend as well, feel free to drop by [...]
I hit my 500th published lens yesterday.
It’s been a huge pile of fun, a huge pile of work, and i’ve met people I never would have any other way.
18 months in I still feel like I’m just starting on my Squid Journey here. Every day I learn more and more, the curve never seems to [...]
The Captain has been hard at work following the announcement about the animoto module last week. After scouring the web for various piratey Squidoo tools that we can all use to make more money and draw more traffic to our lenses I’m proud to announce the launch of a site dedicated to Squidoo Widgets – [...]
We’ve written a little bookmarklet for the Isle of Squid. It can be found on the Isle of Squid lens submission page.
Just click and drag the link up to your bookmark bar and the next time you need to submit a lens, just click it and presto bango it will copy your title, url, description [...]
I’m excited to announce the launch of a brand new Squidoo Link Directory, Squidpedia. I’ve been working with my piratey crew to put this together over the last few weeks and I think it will really be able to provide some value to those looking to promote their lenses.
Where the Isle of Squid rankings are [...]
It is now 12 days after Hurricane Ike hit and the captain tangled and the Captain is still without power.
I haven’t forgotten about all of my Roving Band out there and have some great tips I’ve been cooking up for you all. However, it looks like a regular source of power might not be back [...]
