I can't say I've watched too many old movies with my husband. ;) Lol. Yes, squidoo shut down. I tried to look it up recently and it was sold to some other company. You could make lenses about anything and then link amazon, ebay, etc. to it and get the profit off of purchases made from that linked lens. It wasn't as social as Steemit, but you could comment, upvote, etc.