Have you ever seen a request on HubPages that you wanted to answer, but you didn’t want to write a whole hub on the subject? Now, you don’t have to, because we are introducing a new way to briefly answer a request without building a hub. We hope that this will encourage more people to…
Read MoreJust Another Day Working At HubPages In San Francisco
I’ll tell you what, there’s never a dull moment here in San Francisco, even when you’re simply walking into work in the morning. I’ve been walking into work here lately because I wrecked my bike a few days ago and since I’ve been moving a little slower, I’ve seemed to notice a lot more stuff…
Read MoreCategories Add Value: a response to Clay Shirky’s classic essay
I am a big fan of Clay Shirky. I’ve written a hub reviewing his book Here Comes Everyone. It’s one of my favorite books of 2008. When HubPages announced the support of categories in addition to tags, many people emailed me links to Clay’s essay: “Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags”. Clay Shirky first…
Read MoreHubPages Redesign Coming Soon — Here’s A Sneak Peek!
We’ve been working hard on a new redesign and I wanted to give you a quick look at what all we’ve been improving. A majority of the changes are design-based, but we have also added some pretty sweet features that should make your HubPages experience even better (and you didn’t even know that was possible,…
Read MoreHow Gary Vaynerchuk Sets His Audience’s Expectations
As I mentioned in this post, I headed down to the SXSW Interactive conference in Austin, TX, which is one of the best places to meet some really amazing and innovative people when it comes to tech and the social web. Well, one of those people that I was lucky enough to meet was Gary…
Read MoreThe Idea Bank Gets An Upgrade
For several months now, we’ve had a fairly unknown section of our site that you’ve potentially never seen before — the Idea Bank. The Idea Bank is a tool that looks somewhat similar to the Requests section, but is actually something that was first added to HubPages for a completely different reason. You see, Requests…
Read MoreSphinx Search comes to HubPages
This week, HubPages upgraded its search features to use a popular indexing technology knowns as Sphinx Search. This is the same search technology used by Craigslist and it has enabled HubPages to add the following new capabilities to our search: Matching search terms in bold letters Exact phrase search Ability to exclude search terms from…
Read MoreCategories: Ready to Go This Week
A few weeks ago, we announced that categories were coming to HubPages. We were delightfully surprised by the strong, positive response. If you click on the announcement link, you can see the discussion that occurred. You can also click on any of the categories (such as “Arts & Crafts”) to see the subcategories proposed and…
Read MoreNew HubPages Guide Coming Soon!
The past few weeks I have been hard at work (and hard at focusing) on writing a new, full-blown HubPages Guide that is far and beyond anything that we have ever had before. I’m super excited to get it all completely finished and posted up live on HubPages so that everyone can use it as…
Read MoreWe’ve Added Some Bling To The Hubtivity With Milestones
Today we announced a new Milestones feature that adds some sweet, new bling to all of our Hubtivity streams, which shows all of the activity of the Hubbers that I’m a fan of. This gives a whole new life to all of our Hubtivity streams and we rolled this new feature out for a few…
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