I like that Koollage has included the ability to socialize but hasn’t made it the focus of their application. This social feature is a must to compete with any of the existing content aggregation sites, Squidoo, FriendFeed or any one of the dozen or so more out there. The ease of adding multi-media to the Pods I think will especially appeal to the glitter-graphic lovers out there.Īs with any social application, there is a way to add and track friends on Koollage. That isn’t necessarily a bad thing - a young and vibrant look and feel can pull people in to the social content arena that haven’t played in that sandbox before. Koollage has an overall young look and feel, and while the service may not be intentionally marketing their application to the MySpace crowd, that is definitely the vibe I get from it. It won’t be doing much that is different than Squidoo in the online space, but Squidoo has so far lacked a mobile presence, and now will have to catch up to Koollage in the mobile social content sphere. In spite of its similarity to Squidoo (right down to the color scheme and the idea of content widgets), I think the win goes to Koollage for getting to the iPhone first. Find content you want to pull together into a Pod, and make that Pod into your personal “podspace.” You can have more than one Pod, which means that Koollage actually has some interesting possibilities as a content aggregator with a different look and feel than something like FriendFeed, and it is already designed for the iPhone in addition to the Web - an improvement over the more vanilla look and feel of FriendFeed for those who find FriendFeed unattractive and difficult to use. The other site Koollage reminded me of with its Klubs, Koollage Krew and Kool Factor was MySpace, and its content aggregation properties smacked of a prettier FriendFeed. Then it hit me - it sounded like Squidoo and its concept of Lenses for content. Keep content easy to read using short paragraphs or bullet pointsįor an idea of what a Squidoo lens looks like when complete, you can check out Ten Golden Rules’ Official Squidoo lens.When I first saw Koollage, I thought its concept of gathering content you want online and on your iPhone in Pods (Packages-On-Demand) was interesting, but sounded vaguely familiar.Make sure you have an introduction to your lens.My suggestions when creating a Squidoo lens would be: Squidoo lenses are pretty easy to create, but the best lenses are updated often and filled with interaction. Squidoo lenses can also make you some royalty money or you can donate your earnings to a charity by having an Amazon, CafePress or eBay module. They can contain text, photos, YouTube videos, user polls, link lists and featured products from Amazon. Modules are the building blocks of what makes a Squidoo lens. Squidoo can increase traffic to a website by linking to your website from you lens, as well as increasing your chances in appearing in search engine results since the site is popular.
Lenses (a Squidoo page) can be pretty much about any topic and can point to other websites on the web. Squidoo is a community where you can publish information that you know all about and share with others.