I have been using Squidoo for about a month now. For those that don’t know what Squidoo is, it is a website where you can write a single page on a topic of your choice. This page Squidoo refers to as a lens, and these lenses can be made up of various components like RSS Feeds, guestbooks, videos, ebay items etc. For more info on Squidoo check out the Wikipedia page about Squidoo, or the Squidoo Homepage.

I started using Squidoo to create a page that would help to promote a website I am working on “be more green”. My Squidoo page for “be more green” can be found here. This is not the best Squidoo page in the world, but now I have used it I quite like Squidoo and I can see how it would be a good site to create a lens about other subjects I am interested in. For example if you were a Dr Who fan then you could create a lens with links to Dr Who news via RSS feeds and links to videos and ebay items. You could write about episodes each week and let readers leave feed back. On top of all this Squidoo places ads on your page and the revenue from there adds is split 50:50 between Squidoo and yourself. So you can make money from these lenses, but this is more a little cash or a charity donation your not going to become a millionaire over night.

Overall I think Squidoo is very good at allowing normal people to write a web page about a subject they know about and then share this page with the rest of the world. Pop over to Squidoo now and check it out.