As part of our continued effort to improve your experience on the site as both a reader and writer, we’ve just added a feature that allows you to see what your Facebook friends have been liking and sharing on HubPages. “So… what is it?” you ask, “And is it shiny? Or made of chocolate?” In…
Read MoreHubPages Marks the Spot – HubPages’ Contest Featuring the (Treasure)Map Capsule
This September, HubPages is setting sail on its most boisterous contest yet: HubPages Marks the Spot! HubPages Marks the Spot, sponsored by Outside.in, is all about mapping out local treasures using the HubPages Map Capsule – and sharing lots of loot with those HubBuccaneers who care to join us. This contest has not four but five kinds…
Read MoreIntroducing The First Ever HubCamp!
On the final week of September, HubPages is going to hold HubCamp: an in-person meeting of Hubbers in San Francisco where we’ll go over some of the finer points of becoming an effective online writer. Wer’e still in the planning stages, but because it’s all about the hubber community, we were hoping you’d let us…
Read MoreHubPages Behind the Scenes: Larry and the HubPages iPhone App
With this installment of HubPages Behind the Scenes, HubPages’ very own Larry Freeman shares his experience with creating and working on the HubPages iPhone app! If you listen carefully enough, you can hear Ren in the background 😉 If you don’t already have our fabulous iPhone app (which, BTW, is totally free), you can download…
Read MoreHubPages’ Billionth Hub View
At 11:41am on a warm New England morning, a sweet-toothed anonymous Internet adventurer ventured forth in search of one thing and one thing only: sponge cake recipes. What did this intrepid explorer discover? Nothing short of our very own Angela Harris’ Sponge Cake Recipe – a short but sweet recipe hub first published in 2008.…
Read MoreHubPages Behind the Scenes with Norah!
The fabulous Norah Casey shares a bit about herself and her favorite things about working at HubPages. At my request, she was also kind enough to point out some common mistakes newbies make, thus sparing me (and perhaps others too) some embarrassment~ 🙂 Thanks Norah!
Read MoreThe 60 Day Challenge: Another Cool Hubber-Launched Initiative
Perhaps you’ve noticed some buzz in the forums about a new challenge, not a 30-day challenge, which is the most common format we see, but rather a 60-day challenge. This is a repeat of an effort launched by sunforged (interviewed for the HubPages blog last year) and is a great example of the cool initiatives…
Read MoreHappy 4th Birthday HubPages!
That’s right, HubPages is now four years old! It is strange to think that only four years back, the site had only just launched- especially because today we’re ranked 58th on Quantcast with 1.2 million daily global visits. Not bad, eh? The most impressive thing about the past four years, at least in my opinion, has…
Read MoreGet Ready for the Richest Display Ad Units on the Web
HubPages is always ahead of the curve, so it should come as no surprise that we’re about to roll out one of the coolest, niftiest, most interactive ads on the web. Check out the unit! This display ad was created as part of an advertising partnership with ClickTurn, an online leader in dynamic display advertising.…
Read MoreAkirchner Explores Copyright Quandaries on HubPages
Copyright and correct attribution are matters most of us would rather not think about. It is, after all, so easy to be ignorant of the rules and conveniently snag photos, charts, graphs, and all other forms of information from other places online and use them to our hearts’ content. But alas, this would be wrong-…
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