I Became a Squid Today!
I became a Squid Today! If you don’t know what I mean, continue reading.
Squidoo is a community website that allows users to create pages (called lenses) for subjects of interest. Squidoo is in the top 500 most visited sites in the world, and in the top 300 most viewed in the United States. Squidoo grew 91% in 2008, and had 900,000 handbuilt lenses as of February 1st, 2009. Development on Squidoo started in 2005, launching a beta testing period in October of that year. The launch team consisted of Seth Godin, his book editor Megan Casey, former Fast Company employee Heath Row, Corey Brown, and Gil Hildebrand, Jr.
The site came out of beta testing two months later and reached 100,000 lenses within the first six months.
Since its debut, Squidoo has been profiled in CNN, The New York Times, MSNBC, and The Washington Post.The site was given top prize in SXSW’s community/wiki category. Squidoo has challenged established information websites like About and eHow for traffic, while staying very close in unique visitors to newer models like Mahalo and HubPages.
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Squidooing can be addictive, and should not be used as a social marketing tool for business. It is a hobby tool for writers who enjoy writing.
Yay for you! We are all over Squidoo (it rocks!
) Did the Rocket Moms beta session last year and then went for Giant – and Cinamon is right – it is very addictive. Congratulations!