Fred Wilson has
pointed out a new service called
Squidoo
that allows you to create a focused web page, called a Lens. You
can add text areas, links, and content from RSS feeds all with a
consistent look and feel. You can also add modules to show
content from
Technorati,
Amazon and
Flickr. I would expect more of these type of modules to follow. An obvious one would be a mapping component.
I’m not entirely sure of its value as yet but I have been playing
around with it and it is remarkably easy to pull together a useful
site. With a few minutes work I created two lenses.
This one and
this one. I’ll keep playing with it and it will either become useful or I’ll forget about it.