Squidoography

If you are a member of SquidU forums, chances are, you already heard about tagfoot. It is a brand new social bookmarking project that was introduced to the Squidoo community by Glen aka N376. In fact, it is so new, that it is still in the private beta stage, and the only way you can get in right now is by using an invitation link from one of the existing members. You are welcome to use my link if you want to check tagfoot out right now. There are a lot of Squidoo members there, so you should feel right at home.

Of course, I should explain what exactly is tagfoot, too. It is a social bookmarking site, so if you've used websites like Digg, Stumbleupon or Delicious before, you should get the hang of tagfoot pretty quickly. Quite simply, it allows you to bookmark sites, videos, items and news articles or pictures that you like and share them with others. You can make your bookmarks public, private, or visible to friends only; they can be commented on and 'footed' (tagfoot slang) up or down. Most popular bookmarks will be shown on the homepage of the site, generating even more interest. All bookmarks and even people are 'tagged' with tags describing what they like or what they're about. tagfoot also has a handy browser plugin and a 'Jump' button which takes you to a random bookmark, much like StumbleUpon button does.

tagfoot has some unique features that sets it apart from other social bookmarking services as well. Using rssfoot you can create RSS feeds of your bookmarks; you can even have separate ones depending on the bookmark type or the tag. In fact, you can see a feed of my tagfoot 'wishlist' items on the sidebar of this blog's homepage.

tagfoot also offers a revenue sharing system, something no other social bookmarking service (that I know of) has. You can use your Amazon Associates ID for wishlist items and Google Adsense ID for the rest of the site; even more revenue sharing opportunities are said to be added later.

Finally, if you do decide to join tagfoot, don't forget to read the help files and add me as your friend.

I'm a bit late in posting this, but as you already know Squidoo has made the payouts for this December. I'm not exactly sure why they needed to post the "Blue Box" twice or recheck the numbers, but we got the payout on time as usual. Here's the screenshot of my December payout from Squidoo (it's $61 this time):

The December Squidoo payment tiers were as follows:

High LR: $12
Medium LR: $1.94
Low LR: $0.08

This marks the end of my first year with Squidoo (I did join earlier than that, but never took it seriously). Considering it's already been this long, my achiements aren't that impressive, but that's only because I invested a very limited amount of time and effort into lenscrafting. I hope to make ten times of what I made this year in 2009 :)