You know when you build a lens and you scoot around the web finding links, flickr pictures, youtube videos, amazon products, etc etc etc….? Well I found a site recently called FoxyTunes.com.  It’s basically a search engine all about music. So you’re at FoxyTunes, you type in a band name or a song or album or whatever, and it creates a page for you pulling in the song videos from...

I’ve had a couple of emails and comments from people asking what the difference is between WordPress.com and WordPress.org, and where they should start their blog. So here we go…. WordPress For Dummies WordPress is a platform. A big whole pile of code that, when all put together, forms a blog. WordPress is NOT a website. It is a platform. So if you want to start a wordpress blog you have...

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Hello hello hello..! Fun post today. Blog your socks off. “Blogging and lenses go together like Winnie The Pooh and Tigger Too… So do YOU have a blog for your lenses?” ****************************** FIRSTLY, WHY WOULD YOU WANT A BLOG? ****************************** Blogs are fun. Blogs are free. Blogs are fabulous. And blogs are FINDABLE! It is extremely difficult now to do a search...

What is my all-time favourite module on Squidoo? Well, it’s got to be the text module But second? The extremely well-hidden Featured Lens module. You can see it in action on almost all of my lenses (here for example: www.squidoo.com/squidtail). Featuring my other lenses, cross-promoting, and linking to other cool lenses on the same topic. But if you are new to Squidoo… You may NEVER...

Just a quick note about a quick and easy new module. TWITTER! I posted about Twitter here not long ago, about how to set up an automatic Twitter blog that auto-posts when you update your lenses. Well now you can feed any twitter account onto any lens with the new Twitter Module. Click Add Modules, then A-Z, the T. It WAS possible to get tweets onto a lens before, using the RSS module, but this is a...