Squidoo is a social networking founded in 2005 by a noted blogger, bestselling author, and speaker Seth Godin.
Squidoo allows creation of webpages (called lenses) for online publishing of user generated contents about creator (or lensmaster's) interest, hobbies and other topics that we can think of.
Lenses can contain Flickr Photos, Google Maps, RSS Feeds, Amazon Products and Youtube Videos.
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.
The Squidoo Answer Deck offers Hundreds of Useful Answers about the services and features of Squidoo and it is managed by community experts.
The Squidoo beta version was released simultaneously with Seth Godin's ebook entitled: "Everyone's an Expert" in October 2005 with Heath Row and 3 others.
It is headquartered in 45 Main Street 3R, Hastings on Hudson, New York, USA with only 4 employees namely: Megan Casey, Gil Hildebrand, Jr., Corey Brown and Kimberly Dawn Wells.
Squidoo.com was registered on June 1, 2005 through DirectNIC, Ltd. and has a google pagerank of 8.
It is very popular in the US, India, UK, Canada, Australia, Pakistan, South Africa, Indonesia, China, and Germany.
