Best of Cyber Monday on Squidoo

Black Friday is so passe. Welcome to Cyber Monday!

Squidoo lensmasters are some of the most creative personal shoppers and product tour guides online. Here are 21 unique gift idea and product review lenses to prove it.

You won't find the gift items featured here at your local shopping center, they won't sell out online, and you'll never have to stand in long lines to get them. Even better, you won't have to deal with the temptation to eat one of those gutbusting Auntie Anne's pretzels while pushing around the mall.

In our selection process we really focused on products we thought were cool or interestingly thematic and definitely a bit different... supported by lenses that organized and editorialized on those products. The following is just a small cross section of the lenses that caught our attention for Cyber Monday. There's plenty more where they came from.

P.S. A bit of history: The somewhat amusing history behind CyberMonday, excerpted from Wikipedia: Cyber Monday is a marketing term for the Monday immediately following Black Friday, the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States created by companies to persuade people to shop online. The term made its debut on November 28, 2005 in a Shop.org press release entitled "'Cyber Monday' Quickly Becoming One of the Biggest Online Shopping Days of the Year." ... Cyber Monday is also used as a marketing term in Canada, the United Kingdom, Portugal and Germany. In these countries, with the exception of Canada, Cyber Monday sales last for eight days, typically from the last Monday in November to the first Monday in December.

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