Squidoo.com is a social media community created by Seth Godin (UI Simplicity Guru for those who don’t know) that is built around “lenses” which are easy to build, one page topic sites within the Squidoo community. Squidoo is different from Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace because you can create a series of lenses (pages) that is a different topic on each and relate them to each other, off site content and your profile. It’s kind of like a hosted blog, but easier to get going and, well, different. There are lots of good tips, ranking capabilities and search capabilities. Squidoo boasts over 800,000 unique pages, but Google only shows 114,000 in a site:*.squidoo.com search which makes me wonder how well the site is crawled.

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