Yep, still easy to get good ranking fairly quickly. You'll still need to do a little backlink work but not much. Depends on your key words and other competing squidoo pages.
I use Squidoo. Haven't made any money off of it, but I get traffic to my sites, which is what I want it for. You definitely have to supplement with backlinks now though, because everybody uses that site to rank.
Google is listing my new squiddo lens with this as the decription:
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Is there any way to control the descriptions on lenses?
I really want to be able to state my own description, but I see no meta tag options for lenses.