What's Squidoo All About?

Latest Updates From Seth Godin on Squidoo:

Squidoo lets anyone build a simple, free web page that points to blogs, online stores, maps and other information on a single topic, any topic. Each page can contain insight, bullet points, links, products and pictures, and each page earns royalties for its creator or for charity.

Squidoo leverages the power of personal recommendation. The site will eventually host millions of handmade lenses, each a focused, useful guide to some area of expertise, some glimpse of the net. Instead of aimlessly poking, a lens lets a user see the big picture a human beings big picture, the overview you need to get the meaning of the idea.

Can you explain more about lenses?

The heart of Squidoo is the lens. A lens can point the best hotels in London. Or blogs with pictures and articles about Paris Hilton. Or personal accounts about Hurricane Katrina.

A lens can expose a cross-section of the web, a more personal and more humanly relevant take that no computer could ever create. A lens is an easy-to-build page of links and referrals. Two lenses may be on the same topic, but they are never the same as every lens is personal, and every lens is built by a person, a Lensmaster.

Squidoo is a project from online marketing genius and author Seth Godin (Seth's blog is in index.)

I have started building my own Squidoo Lens and would like to invite you all to check it out Squidoo and start your own Lens. If you decide to build a Lens, send me a link, as we would enjoy getting to know you better.

My Squidoo Lens Rank -- has went from a 2100+ rating when I initially set it up a day ago, to a rank of 720 already. I guess that is pretty good, as I am not real clear what determines the ranking at this point.