Squidoo has launched a new portal called SquidWho

Not enough time for the usual in-depth rant (lucky for you)… but jumping off Danny’s excellent overview, I will assume that Google found within itself to ratchet down the value of Squidoo pages in the grand scheme of things.

After having a nice recent conversation with Jeff Liebert lately, I read his fantastic post in the WMW supporter’s forum about Are Businesses and People Adapting to the WWW Publicity Machine?

Pages on Squidoo that had enjoyed high rankings in Google have been dropping in the search engine’s rankings. Spam has been cited as the culprit.

The world of social networking is changing, but don’t worry, it’s not permanent. It’s more of a tide than anything that reaches and recedes from all things. MySpace is changing, Facebook is catching, and Friendster is resurrected.

Are you trying to get some attention? Not a simple task these days…

Some of the world’s smartest people keep their secrets tight to their chest.

Not Seth Godin. Seth is full of marketing genius and you can learn a bunch by watching him.

One of his new ventures is called Squidoo.

If I were to identify just the 41 categories, this article would become rather long and list-like.  If I were to mention each of the “over 200” websites involved, you’d hate me.  So I’ll simply report that SEOmoz has announced its 2007 Web. 2.0 Awards, and perhaps hit a few of the highlights while I’m at it.

It seems Digg has unbanned a list of sites by letting them back in. From what I have noticed here are the sites that have been allowed back in.

Feed Collectors is a site where users can collect and share their RSS feeds in a social network environment.

Take a quick survey of the ever changing Web 2.0 landscape and you will notice that the most successful services have two key elements.

Squidoo is now open to the public in an open beta program.

I am writing on BlogOn 2005 over at the AllBusiness PR Blog this week, and will be updating the posts here.

Seth Godin will, that’s who; he’s started Squidoo and wants to share it with me and you, so click on through and on into the site he likes to call Squidoo.