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One Year of Squidoo and 368 Lenses Later

Arr... This Be The Captain! Thanks for Stopping by to check out my piratey bag of Squidoo Tricks! If you are new here, you might want to get free updates and squidoo tricks delivered straight to you via RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

I started using Squidoo one year ago today (give or take 24 hours) and in that time I’ve:

• Built 368 lenses (just over 1 a day!)
• Been a Citizen Squid, Giant Squid, Squid Angel, forum mod, and all around Squidoo helper.
• Started a blog about Squidoo (this one)
• Started an auction site for Squidoo Lenses
• Started a lens directory for Squidoo
• Started a chat room for Squidoo
• Started a Squidoo Blog Platform
• Made a TON of new friends!
• Failed miserably at running groups on Squidoo
• Gone from $2 my first payout to over $2,500 in profit from Squidoo last month
• Had a lens earn $1,000 in a single month
• Made 749 posts at Squid U.
• Found out I love teaching people to think.

It’s been a busy year to say the least! And I honestly hope next year is even busier. To everyone who has helped along the way (and there’s a ton of you) : Thank You.

Track your Life with Socialthing LifeStream

Socialthing! just went into Private Beta this morning.

Socialthing is a site which will take your Digg, Twitter, Facebook, Pownce, Del.icio.us, YouTube, Flickr, Last.fm, LiveJournal and Vimeo profiles and combine the activity on your profile and your friends profiles into a ‘lifestream’.

The Lifestreaming concept is still very new and a lot of companies are trying to get it right. Another example of a Lifestreaming site would be Spokeo.

Why bring this up?

I have 10 more invites to the Private Beta and wanted to see if anyone wanted one. If you do, drop a comment and let me know.

Why you should keep an eye on these sites:

a Lifestream is a tricky thing. On one hand, there are some legitimate concerns with seemingly recording every action you take on the web. On the other hand it seems like there are 30 new services every week that people want you to try and keeping track of it all is very difficult.

Socialthing! shows some promise from what I saw, being very clean to use and fast. However, they are going to have to increase the number of services you can pull information from in order to really scale. Still, they have most of the big ones and it is worth checking out if just to see what these kind of websites do.

-The Captain