Squidoo is a social networking and user-generated site founded by a squid named Seth Godin. It allows creation of single pages used to promote user interest, hobbies and anything a brain can process.
Squidoo is headquartered in Irvington, New York with only 4 other employees namely: Megan Casey, Gil Hildebrand, Jr., Corey Brown and Kimberly Dawn Wells. [Wikipedia]
Squidoo's beta version was released simultaneously with Seth Godin's ebook entitled: "Everyone's an Expert" in October 2005 with Heath Row and 3 others.
Squidoo Pages (commonly called 'Lenses') can contain Flickr Photos, Google Maps, RSS Feeds, Amazon Products and Youtube Videos. The creators of Squidoo pages are called 'Lensmaster'.
Each Lens earnings relies heavily on advertising revenue and affiliate commissions. The revenue payment scheme for Squidoo Pages is: 5 percent goes to charity, 50 percent to lensmaster and 45 percent to Squidoo.
Squidoo offers personal or charity purposed pages where earnings are either shared to chosen charity or for personal use.
Squidoo is popular in Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, United States, India, South Africa, Australia, United Kingdom, New Zealand and Canada.
The Squidoo Answer Deck offers Hundreds of Useful Answers about the services and features of Squidoo and it is managed by community experts.
The CaptainSquid.com, Squidlog.com and SquidooMagic.com offers Squidoo tips and tricks on how to gain more traffic and earn from Squidoo lenses.
Squidoo version 2.0.7 (June 2008) add-on for Firefox 3.0 can be downloaded at mozilla site.
SixApart.com offers Typepad Widget for Squidoo that helps increase revenue from Squidoo Lenses.
Few years ago, Squidoo ranked on top 10 google search results for 'lens' target keywords but it had dropped in the recent months.
