Yep, it’s now official — HubPages is now a top 100 website in the US. Here’s the screenshot to prove it. Thanks to all of you awesome Hubbers who have helped us get to this point and let’s keep on moving up that list! UPDATE: Here’s a quick video of our top 100 champagne celebration…
Read MoreThe Payout Chronicles: Hubber habee Gets Her first $100 Payout After Getting Serious
Believe it or not, when I’m lurking through the forums day-to-day I’m doing more than just amusing myself with what gets posted in the Religion section — I’m also looking for great Hubber stories that need to be shared with the rest of the community. One of my favorite types of story to share is…
Read MoreThe Swine Flu Sets A Hubber’s Traffic On Fire!
I’m always up for sharing a good HubPages success story, so when I saw what was happening with ManekiNeko‘s Hub about the Swine Flu (titled How Long is the Swine Flu Incubation Period?), I just had to write something about it. What’s hapening with her Hub at this very moment is the result of a…
Read MoreWhen Will HubPages Break Into The Quantcast Top 100 US Websites?
Here at the HubPages HQ we’ve been getting pretty excited about the fact that we’re getting really close to breaking through the Quantcast Top 100 US websites (we’re listed at #105 as I write this). So excited, in fact, that we’re doing an office contest to see who can come closest to guessing the exact…
Read MoreFrank, The Official HubPages Office Mascot
I know that I have mentioned Frank (my Pug that I bring into the office every day) on this blog a little bit here and there, but here lately I feel like I should be talking more about him since he’s becoming such a fixture around here. Whether he’s sleeping during meetings, chewing on our…
Read MoreA Record Week For The HubMob! (and a shout-out to Simple Tim, a HubMobster maniac)
Last week Princessa, our very own HubMob Queen, posted up a HubMob topic over here in the forums just like she does every other week. But, after posting that this week’s topic was Toys, something unexpectedly awesome started to happen. HubMobsters began showing up from all over the place and they were publishing HubMob Hubs…
Read MoreThe People That Made BlogWorld Expo 2009 So Freakin’ Awesome
I just rolled in early this morning from Las Vegas where I was spreading the HubPages love at the 2009 BlogWorld Expo, which is basically a huge event (2,500+ attendees) that attracts some of the biggest names in blogging, podcasting, social media and other web stuff. Me and most of the web-geeks who decide to…
Read MoreThe New Customizable Home Page
HubPages recently announced the new customizable home page. This was created with two goals in mind: 1) Improve the ability to track the content that they are most interested in 2) Improve the ability to organize the presentation of this content in the most convenient way. In today’s blog, I will walk you through the…
Read MoreWhy Making Things More Fun Always Helps
I was reading this post over on Mashable.com about how Volkswagen has created a couple of major viral video hits that have already received tons of views from people catching the buzz about the new Fun Theory idea and website that they’ve put together. The videos basically show how various behaviors and habits can be…
Read MoreGoing To BlogWorld 2009 In Las Vegas, Looking To Meet Interesting/Fun/Crazy People
I’m happy to announce that for the second year in a row I’m heading out to Las Vegas to partake in what I think is the greatest social media event that anyone in the industry could go to — BlogWorld 2009. I know that’s saying a lot and coming from a guy who has been around…
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