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, [...]
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 – [...]
Lots of stuff happening today that’s Squidoo news related, figured a roundup post was in order.
4 new Modules were released (SquidBlog) today, I think the two Amazon modules are especially worth taking a look at. Haven’t looked too close to see which of these are evergreen, if any. I’ll cover that in a post soon. [...]
Harmony, the creator of the Squidom social voting site for squidoo lenses has started a new squidoo blog aggregator called Squidoosphere. It’s quite nifty, something I was hoping someone would start.
The front page of the site is a list of the most recent posts about squidoo that is updated in real time. However, your blog [...]
Maybe it’s just because I finally have had power back after losing it to Mr. Hurricane Ike for two weeks but it seems that the team over at Squidoo has really ramped up a ton of new community initiatives in the past few weeks. Between giving $80,000 to charity, the latest round of Giant Squid [...]
For those of you that missed it a series of awards were given out to several of the outstanding Giant Squids on Squidoo , a rousing round of congratulations is in order for all of the Giants,
Mega-Mentor - N376
Genuine Genius - thefluffanutta
Seller Superstar - Janet21
Generous Giant - Comfortdoc
Courteous Commenter - KimGiancaterino
Pop Culture Pro - blondeheroine
Deliciously Devilish Debater - kab
Craftiest Creations - katiyana
Animal Activist - genglo
Liveliest Lensographer - JaguarJulie
Special congratulations [...]
Squidoo is taking a huge ($80,000) chunk of their earnings earmarked for charity and allowing people to vote on where the money should go.
Go to the Squidoo Charity Giveaway lens and vote for your favorite charity. once. Then, tell all your friends to do it. Each vote will result in $2 going to the charity [...]
Yesterday, Squidoo HQ announced their monthly payday on each lensmaster’s account dashboard. For the first time ever, the top lenses earned well over $10. In fact, the top lenses’ adsense revenue share was $11.04!
The tiers were as follows (I’ll update Squidconomy with these a little later today):
$11.04
$1.72
$0.08
Interesting Changes afoot in payouts:
This was the first month [...]
Edit: I was extra grumpy when I woke up this morning and made the two cardinal mistakes in blogging – don’t type angry and do your research. I failed miserably at both. Apparently these ads are served by Google and are still CPC, negating my entire argument. Additionally, getting angry doesn’t really solve a lot [...]
Squidtop, the blogging platform built on Wordpress specifically for Squidoo users and their friends, received a major facelift this past weekend.
The entire interface was upgraded on the backend to use the wordpress 2.x style engine over the previous 1.x engine.
The front end has changed drastically with some major overhauls and feature updates that should make [...]
