Just last year, an article in Forbes.Com attracted lots of attention with its criticism of Crowdsourcing. “Crowdsourcing” refers to the phenomenon of opening up a web site to the public and seeing what happens. The term was invented by Jeff Howe in 2006 who used it to describe popular web sites such as Wikipedia and…
Read MoreGettin’ busy with Cupid….rowr!
[Editors Note – Sometimes someone forgets to refill the coffee pot at HubPages Central, and our senses get so dulled that we need to call on a guest contributor to write our blog…it gets all really stressed-out. Lucky for us, the caffeine withdrawal happened so close to a certain holiday for lovers that we found…
Read MoreThe Payout Chronicles: Over $4,000 in less than one year
You might remember Court from the Keyword Academy, who had a challenge with Ryan Hupfer back in April of last year. This sparked the 30-Day Challenge which continues to this day. In a recent blog post, Court reminds that he made $475 during that one-month challenge period. But, as every veteran Hubber knows, you make…
Read MoreIs Blogging on the Decline?
Teenagers are blogging significantly less now than they were four years ago. At least, that’s one interpretation from a recent study done by the Pew Internet Project. Here are the facts cited by the study: Only 14% of 12-17 years-olds report that they blog today versus 25% in 2006. Only 52% report that they comment…
Read MoreThe Payout Chronicles: girly_girl09’s Hubs continue to earn while she studies
Girly_Girl09 joined HubPages only 9 months ago, but she recently announced in the Forums that, despite having published the majority of her Hubs earlier when she had free time, she continues to earn about $200 per month even though she has shifted her attention to her studies. She took some time out of her busy…
Read MoreHubbers Helping Haiti
The worldwide response to the recent events in Haiti helped to highlight how much the everyday technology that we take for granted can have a very powerful effect on the world around us. It was no different here at Hubpages. The sheer number of informative hubs published immediately following the earthquake was impressive to say…
Read MoreA short history of HubPages graphics
Over the past few years I’ve made hundreds of graphics for HubPages. Most of them have been total crap. Just real garbage. Everything in the image above has been banished from HubPages forever, and with the exception of this post, will never be seen again. We have also cycled through a number of terrible logos.…
Read MoreThe Future of Content Web Sites: Content Factories and Content Communities
I was recently reading a Wired article that profiled a company called Demand Media. The company is one of many companies that are seeking to become a “content factory”. Their goal is to automate the production of web content that is carefully targeted to capture the most high value traffic from the search engines. Both…
Read MoreThe Payout Chronicles: Whitney05’s AdSense milestone is impressive!
Whitney05, domesticated animal expert and master Hubber, was thrilled earlier this month when she checked her AdSense earnings for November and found out that she earned over $1000 in a single month for the first time. Over $900 was from her Hubs alone. With a great 2nd-place win in last year’s HubLove contest and ever-growing…
Read MoreHubFeed = Hubtivity + Interactivity + Magic
HubPages strives to be the best place to write on the web. We have a fantastic community of Hubbers who regularly write content about almost every topic under the sun. So we like to think that HubPages is already a great place to be if you are a writer. We want to make HubPages a…
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