{"id":969,"date":"2006-03-25T13:40:42","date_gmt":"2006-03-25T18:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=969"},"modified":"2006-03-25T13:40:42","modified_gmt":"2006-03-25T18:40:42","slug":"squidoo-pulling-amazon-lists-out-of-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=969","title":{"rendered":"Squidoo: pulling Amazon lists out of Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the cool Amazon feature is the list &#8212; users post their 10 favorite Taiwanese films, 17 favorite waffle-making gadgets, and so on.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s handy and fun. It draws on primal foraging instincts. And it&#8217;s closely tied to Amazon, and only losely tied to the listmaker.  Amazon has user profiles, but they are tightly constrained.<br \/>\nSquidoo enables users to make lists, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squidoo.com\/pages\/faq\">offers to help its members<\/a> increase their fame and fortune by linking their personal site to the Google-friendly link haven.   It&#8217;s an odd combination of fun amateur topics such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squidoo.com\/laptopbag\/\">the coolest laptop bags<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squidoo.com\/hot_1\/\">sandwich recipes<\/a>, and moderately creepy get-rich-quick ads for foreign exchange trading and mystery shopping.<br \/>\nThe lists are much prettier than a bare delicious link collection, but they take a little more effort to create.   Time will tell if it has the magical combination of benefit to the individual and increasing benefit to the group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the cool Amazon feature is the list &#8212; users post their 10 favorite Taiwanese films, 17 favorite waffle-making gadgets, and so on. It&#8217;s handy and fun. It draws on primal foraging instincts. And it&#8217;s closely tied to Amazon, and only losely tied to the listmaker. Amazon has user profiles, but they are tightly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=969\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Squidoo: pulling Amazon lists out of Amazon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-fD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}