The HubPages team was in Las Vegas last Thursday through Saturday for the BlogWorld event. It was awesome to meet so many Hubbers face-to-face, and to spread the word about HubPages to other attendees who had not yet heard of us. Throughout the various discussions that I had at the event, there seemed to be…
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 MoreArticle-Based Web Sites and the Future of Print Media Companies
I remember when I first started using the web in the early 90’s. Web sites were quite ugly with blinking text, slapped together images, and unstyled text. But in those days, we weren’t too bothered by that. There was an excitement about the possibilities of all the information that could soon be available on the…
Read MorePaul Edmondson speaking at PubCon South/Dallas
Any Texas-based Hubbers going to PubCon South/Dallas this year? It takes place next week, April 13-15, at the Richardson Conference and Civic Center. HubPages’s CEO, Paul Edmondson, will be speaking at the event, delivering a presentation entitled How to Start and Grow a User Generated Content Community. I’m sure you can guess which user generated content community…
Read MoreIs HubPages the Most Visited Small Web Site in the World?
One of the fun parts of my job is talking to people about HubPages who have never heard of it. This is not so surprising considering that if you read most articles on social media, crowdsourcing, blogging, or social networking, HubPages is rarely mentioned. If you check the Quantcast 100, most of the websites there…
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 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 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 Payout Chronicles: Janet21 Takes Writing Good Content Very Seriously (and it seems to be working)
A long, long time ago (on May 4th, actually) I emailed a Hubber named Janet21 after seeing her post in the forums about how for the first time she had earned over $100 from the content that she had published on HubPages. You see, HubPages isn’t the first place that she has decided to publish…
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