Squidoo has re-launched their home page with an eye towards sending first time visitors to some of the top lenses around (official blog post announcement).
I think this is a massive improvement on the front page and it allows you to easily scan the first 5 lenses in each Squidoo category.
However, after showing it around a [...]
There have been some reason discussions in the Squidoo community discussing the ever present question of how many squidoo accounts should someone have and when it makes sense to have more than one account.
The most popular reason seems to be ‘to separate niches’ or build one account for each ‘theme’ of lenses you have. An [...]
With the recent releases of TwittrStrm and a Facebook Connect feature for Squidoo accounts, Squidoo continues to establish itself as a truly unique player in the new web.
As the web has developed over the past decade, what you know (content) and who you know (links) have become established signals for helping people find and use [...]
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 [...]
Squidoo HQ officially announced the launch of their new Workshop today. It’s pretty. It’s fast. It looks wayyy more like what you will end up with when you are done.
some juicy little tidbits
Giants Only: Templates can now be inserted directly into a lens. The possibilities for this are huge…
adding popular modules in just a click [...]
Okay, as I’m sure most Squidoo Lensmasters and Zazzle Artists know, a recent branding initiative was launched to bring the two services together. There have been a Ton of blog posts about how to build zazzle lenses, integrate your zazzle gallery, etc etc etc.
However, what really gets confusing is what happens when you start talking [...]
As many of you have probably heard, Mashable is having their Open Web Awards right now and Squidoo has been nominated for two categories – Mainstream Social Network and Non-Profit Causes.
I’ve adapted the widget for use on lenses so you guys can get out the vote for Squidoo! remember, you can vote once per category [...]
I’ve noticed a lot of renewed interest in buying and selling lenses on the lens marketplace at SquidU lately. As a result I sat down this weekend and reworked the entire interface of Sell My Lens.
The new Lens Auction area is super easy to navigate, has an RSS feed for lenses currently for sale, and [...]
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 [...]
A Lens Cloud is:
A group of highly similar lenses that all have unique content related to one topical ‘theme’ or niche. These lenses are all connected to most or all of the other lenses in the cloud using either static or dynamic linking resources within Squidoo such as lensrolls, Discovery Boxes, Featured Lenses modules, Plexos, [...]
