Something New…Squidoo
Friday, December 9th, 2005
Squidoo is another new way to develop user created content. It has the notion of lenses, which are a person’s view on a particular subject. The service just started, so there is a virtual land grab on popular subjects like “computers” and “video games” etc. I’m not sure what problem is being solved, so I’m not sure how successful it will be. I grabbed a few subjects, Educational Games (http://www.squidoo.com/educationalgames) and Casual Games (http://www.squidoo.com/casualgames) to name two that I’ve actually added to.
It’s a cross between a blog and a wiki. It gives you some templates to assist you in developing your content in the form of linked list, RSS feeds, text areas, Amazon.com links, to name a few of the content types which will presumably expand as the service grows. Google Ads are automatically incorporated for you. When I signed up, I was given the option to donate or collect any proceeds. I guess they have a way to associate the Google Ads and Amazon.com links to your lense and they share some of that link profit with you. Probably the reason for the virtual land grab.
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