Yesterday I was knocking out some sweet HubPages stuff when all of a sudden Jay Reitz (one of HubPages founders) walked in and told us to get on upstairs so that we could surprise/embarrass our fearless leader here at HubPages, the one and only Mr. Paul Deeds, with a cake for his birthday. I’m always…
Read MoreThe Michael Jackson Hubs Flood In Quickly
Yesterday marked the death of one of the most influential people in the history of music, Michael Jackson. At the young age of 50 the King of Pop died suddenly after being rushed to a hospital after suffering a heart attack. Unless you’ve been hiding in a cave I’m sure you’ve noticed the public response…
Read MoreA Soon-To-Be Hubber Superstar Stops By The HubPages HQ For Some One-On-One Help
Man, I love this job. Each day you never know what interesting person you’re going to meet and who you’re going to be able to connect with from who knows where. Thanks to the good ol’ Interwebs, the HubPages community is made up of awesome people from all over the world, which makes it even…
Read MoreA Video Wrap-Up Of My AC Separation Shoulder Surgery (it’s not gross, don’t worry)
As many of you Hubbers have probably noticed, I’ve been a little out of rhythm here lately when it comes to posting things on HubPages and chatting in the forums. This is due to a few reasons, such as the 30 Day HubChallenge (which I hope to continue somehow), my family vacation/wedding planning trip back…
Read MoreHubPages Helps A Hubber Find Her Long Lost Uncle!
Sometimes I’m amazed at what Hubbers can get out of writing on HubPages besides a little extra cash in their pocket. I’ve heard of celebrity encounters and other not-so-normal happenings because of a seemingly innocently published Hubs, but when I was reading a forum called Thank You Hub Hubpages I read about something that I’ve…
Read MoreHubPages is now a top 150 US Web Destination
On Monday, for the first time, we surpassed 1 million hubs viewed in a single day. According to Quantcast, HubPages is now #146 on the most visited US web sites. In my view, this is really great recognition of the interesting topics that are daily being published on HubPages. We are community-powered content. So, all…
Read MoreThe Hub Challenge: 100 Hubs In 30 Days — are you in?
The Challenge Yesterday as I was aimlessly wandering about on the web, I found an interesting blog post that was written up by a guy names Court over on a site called The Keyword Academy. It was titled New Make Money Experiment – 100 Hubs In 30 Days and it talked about how Court has…
Read MoreCreating a Hub Template
With the latest update to HubPages, we have added the ability to reuse an existing hub layout for a new hub. in addition to providing two additional starting layouts.  Here’s a snapshot of the new layout selection: The new feature gives you the ability to create a template hub. By this, I mean a hub…
Read MoreCheck Out This Week’s Winning HubNuggets!
After over 120+ people placed their vote over here, the final HubNuggets were finally made official yesterday and sent out in the HubPages Weekly newsletter to all of the fine Hubbers out there (over 55,000 of them!). Also, it’s worth mentioning that Kelsey Tallis has set an all-new HubNuggets record for the highest percentage of…
Read MoreFacebook connect and Tweet this now available on hubs!
With all the buzz going around social media and how websites are using Facebook connect and Twitter to help their users be more pro-active and social, we here at Hubpages HQ decided to jump on the bandwagon. So we’re glad to announce a subset of Facebook connect and Twitter functionality integration into your Hubpages hubs…
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