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Tonight we released a fun little feature you just might fall in love with.

It’s the new Meebo toolbar. The toolbar lives at the very bottom of your Squidoo screen, fixed to the bottom of the browser window. You should see it the next time you visit Squidoo.

The Meebo Bar makes it easy for you to:

• Share a lens with your friends by email, Facebook, Twitter or Yahoo.
• Quickly access a list of fun stuff to do on Squidoo, including shortcuts to the SquidU Forum, to our latest “cobrand” projects like SquidQuiz, and to make a new lens.
• Check out related lenses. Did you know that our best lensmasters look at 8x more lenses per session than other lensmasters do?
• Shortcut over to see Lens of the Day and participate in the LotD Fan Page over on Facebook.
• You can chat! You can login to your Facebook Chat, Meebo chat, Google Chat, AIM, or any other instant messenger you use. So you can chat with your friends and coworkers and fellow lensmasters without leaving Squidoo. Imagine working on lenses together this way, getting real time, instant feedback from your friends… Just a thought.
• You can also see real time notes and mini-updates, from SquidooHQ to you, right on the Meebo Bar.

Next, a few more logistics and details to know:

• No, the Meebo chatbar won’t slow down loading of your lenses one bit. It won’t affect performance at all and also has nothing to do with SEO. Just so you know.
• Our friends over at Meebo tell us the chatbar really increases page views… meaning, the number of people who see and share your lenses. That’s never a bad thing!
• Links clicked open in new tabs.
• If you don’t feel like using the Meebo Bar, you can minimize it easily.
• Meebo will run popular ads in the toolbar from time to time. They’ll be non-invasive and easy to close, and will always contain high-quality sponsored content.

We’re adding this feature as part of a trial period right now, so we’d love to hear what you think, and how you use the Meebo Bar. Giants have already tested this out for us, but if you see any bugs, please send them our way.

Thanks.