Squidoo 2.0 Not that it's a good or bad thing. Just noting the similarities of two ideas pushed through by two strong personalities--love you, mean it, dmor--t

Squidoo 2.0 Not that it's a good or bad thing. Just noting the similarities of two ideas pushed through by two strong personalities--love you, mean it, dmor--that approached the editorial process with a means of monetization. I believe the trick, as Mahalo learned early, is that you need a lot of traffic to draw from for this kind of model to ramp up and then work out a win for everyone with their fingers in the pie. For my own startup junkie datapoint would any Amazon engineer please dish about lessons learned while productizing of, and the lack thereof, Amazon wishlists or tangentially Amazon Vine? With a massive database of products, reviews, actions, tastes, recommendations, and traffic, that's a great nexus to apply a referral model to.