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As a user of Squarespace hosted blogware/sitebuilder I'm delighted to see "#squarespace" topping Twitter trends today. I'm even more amused at all the folks joining in with posts like "WTH is #squarespace?"

To brief the uninitiated I might call it a TypePad competitor, but Squarespace is much more than that.  It is hosted hosting, if you will and so there are limitations. And sometimes the supercool interface is more bewildering than beguiling. But what you can do with SQSP is amazing -- even for the money, which is a step up from TypePad. For SEO, Squarespace is very good, especially if you're starting a new site. Based on their track record in the two years since I launched my first Squarespace site, I am confident that the remaining refinements are already being dealt with.

Anyway, here's what's going on. Squarespace is coming out with an iPhone app to update sites with.  To generate buzz, they're giving away one "iPhone" (Actually a $199 gift card to the Apple store) every day till July 7. At 5pm Eastern they'll do a "drawing" from among the tweets containing the hashtag #squarespace. Here's the explanation.

If you're looking for a reliable place to host a blog, with beautiful templates out of the box, consider a Squarespace free trial. (And yep -- that's an affiliate link -- if you actually become a paying customer I get the small bucks.)

Earlier today Dan Perry invited me across the aisle with a suspiciously innocent expression, only to show me this little gem. Check out the sitelink I've highlighted in yellow.

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I love the Huffington Post's new Chicago-specific homepage. We undoubtedly have our headline-grabbing, being-impeached-today Governor to thank much more than our new president. But what URL are they trying to brand?

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TypePad is addressing the URL problem that has made the platform a no-go for many webmasters concerned about seo. Beta users can now control the filename of individual posts.

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Big Medium is a paid, self-hosted CMS built by Josh Clark of Global Moxie. The license fee of $185 (with fully functioning free trial) covers unlimited websites on the same server, as long as the program, once installed, has access to every site's root directory. It works well with individual hosting accounts and with reseller hosting accounts -- just install BM on your reseller service domain and give it permission to populate your clients' root directories. I've used it successfully on an H-Sphere reseller account and a CPanel individual and reseller account. BM installs in about half an hour and requires no database.

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