Interesting News,
Gil announced that Squidoo has removed the no-follow links located in certain modules (About Me, My Lenses, Text with Big Picture).
MORE interesting,
RSS has had No-Follow ADDED to it. Before the changes there was absolutely no reason for RSS to have no-follow applied to RSS modules, as the entire module was rendered in a way [...]
Lensmaster and Giant Squid Kab stopped by the chat room the other day and asked if it was possible to create a module for lenses that showed the most recent update from your blip.fm account.
After a few tweaks and bumps, I’m proud to present the Blip.fm Squidoo module.
Bip.fm on Widgetsquid
Lens about Blip.fm Module with FAQ
Now, [...]
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 [...]
Oftentimes it’s easy to get wrapped up with just the basic modules in Squidoo. A lot of lensmasters get into a ‘groove’ where they know what modules they like and they know which ones they are going to use.
A lot of Squidoo lensmasters seem to occaisionally forget the real depth that is in the module [...]
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 [...]
I’ve been playing around with the Squidoo Module Development Kit and have been making some pretty good progress.
I’ve made rough drafts of a few new modules in the past week or so and met with some pretty good success. I think I’ve got a pretty good handle on how squidoo has the system set up. [...]
Yesterday, Gil announced the release of a new Table of Contents Module.
Gil’s Example:
Fluffanutta’s example after applying some of his CSS Tricks:
How it Works
The module automatically creates links to all of your modules with Titles. If your module doesn’t have a title, it doesn’t show up on the list, that simple.
Lot’s of exciting stuff going on [...]
I think that the ‘Plexo’ modules on Squidoo are probably one of the least understood aspects of Squidoo. I have always been kind of ambivalent towards all of the plexo modules just because I never really saw how they could benefit me. Until Now.
The Real Facts about Plexo Modules:
Votes are pooled across all versions of [...]
Squidoo HQ has been a busy group of guys and gals the past couple of months, releasing what they call ‘co-brands’ or ‘front doors’ to Squidoo. These doorways offer some different formatting as well as some auto-magical lens building abilities that can get you started on your lens.
The Co-Brands are nice, but what if you [...]
There’s a new module on the ‘Interact’ page of the Module picker titled’ Amazon Recomendations’. It’s an interesting twist on the classic Amazon Plexo that’s worth checking out.
It basically pulls a 5 item plexo list from Amazon with items that are ‘related’ to the item you give the module to start with.
Why this is awesome:
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