Squidoo, a company founded by Seth Godin, is launching a great platform for brands to organize and join the conversation. Brands have realized by now that conversation matters and that they can’t control it. ‘Brands in Public’ enables them to organize, join, amplify and seed it. Basically they are putting the conversation on one page open to everybody. Brands can take charge of the development of the page and personalize it for US$ 400,- a month. In my opinion that is a fair price to pay for the added value that brands are getting in return. So, check it out:

http://www.squidoo.com/brandsinpublic/hq