Captain Squid

Weird #1 lens today…….. (I didn’t photoshop this except to crop it and it’s not one of my lenses.) You can find the lens here. Not sure how long this will stay up.

As I was lensbuilding this weekend I noticed a new evergreen Module has been released into the wild for Squidoo lensmasters. (What is an evergreen module?)
The Feed My Search module uses FeedMySearch.com to pull relevant news, blog posts, and search engine results into lenses. It works similar to the google blog search module which is [...]

The Giant Squid Organizers send me a super special treat! My dog, Tank, stole it and wanted to show that he too had what it takes to be a Giant Squid…. I’m not sure, what do you guys think? (click thumb to enlarge, big photos…)

Okay, in Part 1 of the series on PepperJam lenses we found our new affiliate program – Jimi Hendrix Clothing.
Today I went ahead and created a lens titled ‘How to Dress Like Jimi Hendrix’ . Honestly, it’s the first thing that popped into my mind that wasn’t something like ‘Buy Jimi Hendrix..blah..blah..blah’ .
When crafting titles, [...]

On Sunday Morning, squidoo lensranks (the ‘rank’ of a ‘lens’ is how well it is doing in comparison to other pages on squidoo’s site) changed a bit more than usual.
Now, in and of itself, this is not an unusual thing, as Lensrank usually shifts a bit more on Sundays due to some parts of the [...]

As many of you have probably heard, yesterday Google announced the launch of it’s knol community. (Coverage from Mashable) Often accused as being a ‘Wikipedia‘ killer, Knol is designed to be a ‘moderated place for experts to share their knowledge’… hrmmmm… That sounds remarkably like a certain other site I use (not to name names [...]

We’ve added a Help Desk for SquidTop over at Get Satisfaction. We had noticed that we were receiving a lot of the same questions and typing out individual responses was making our hands tired!
For those of you who are curious, Squidtop is a place for Squidoo Lensmasters to Blog about their lenses (or whatever else [...]

In addition to the ebay challenge for lensmasters (Which ends today so get your lenses in!) there’s also been another challenge that has been stealthily sneaking around Squidoo.. the SuperHero Challenge!
This one is a little bit less demanding than the eBay contest. Simply build 5 lenses about regular everyday superheroes that you know who make [...]

I’ve decided to bring back the weekly Squidoo News Updates, at least for now. I find that it helps me keep track of all the great ideas I’m finding that people are writing about.
First,  a shameless plug. I Answered a question over on the Giant Squid mentor Blog by a fantastic new lensmaster (JigsawForte) on [...]

Squidoo Virtual Intern Derrick Kwa has started off a little initiative to talk a little bit more about squidoo and business.
He’s started up a new network over on Ning called SquidBusiness. Since I occasionally moonlight as a personal finance blogger as well as being a huge business nut / Capitalist freak in general, I thought [...]