I just had quite a bizarre experience. I was searching Google to try and see if there was a blog that existed where the owner just wrote posts about things they wish existed in real life. Kind of like my post here last week wishing the guestbook limit was increased, but for things in every day life. I was thinking “There are TONS of things I wish existed! I wonder if there is a blog like that...

Have you heard of the website Compete.com? It’s a website that tracks how popular different websites are. And they just released their numbers from last year… naming the Top 20 Fastest Growing Websites of 2007. And out of all the possible websites in the world…. IN THE WORLD… Squidoo was the 14th fastest growing in 2007! According to Compete’s numbers, Squidoo was the...

For those of you still worried about a ‘Squidoo Slap’, here is something interesting to think about. With Google, when you search for a person’s name followed by the word age or birthday you will get a little result (from an authority site) at the top that tells you the date of birth. And here is what Jeff Wend says about his latest lens: “This is a lens I whipped out quickly...

I would love it if Squidoo allowed guestbook comments that were longer than 300 characters! (UPDATE:  SQUIDOO HAS NOW DONE THIS! 2 days after posting here and Squidu, and all your comments, Squidoo raised the limit from 300 to 1000. Woohoo! Thanks Squidoo HQ!!) When I read blogs and see some people writing massive comments in response to the posts, I keep saying to myself ‘It would be GREAT...

Thefluffanutta has just published some helpful tips for using SquidCasts more effectively. Here they are:  ************************ All of the casts you make will be published in the lens RSS feed, and potentially syndicated elsewhere, so make sure your titles are good ones. The title of each cast will be linked to your lens, and search engines will use that as a factor when ranking your lens. Don’t...

Squidoo has updated quite a lot today. One major addition to Squidoo functions is a thing called ‘SquidCasting’. To sum it up in one sentence I would say ‘Send updates, like blog posts or email alerts, to everyone who has added you or your lens to their favorites’. Here is the Squidoo release info on the new tool. What do you think you’ll be mainly using it for? ******************************************* Today...