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 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…
Read MoreHappy Thanksgiving from HubPages!
It’s a Thanksgiving tradition to share the things for which we’re thankful. Tomorrow, among family and friends, I’ll do so on a personal level, but sitting here in the office today, I’m struck by how much HubPages has to say thanks for, as a company. HubPages is so blessed to have an amazing user base, and we’re…
Read MoreRedElf And Zsuzsy Bee Join The HubNuggets Team!
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the past several months and only decide to poke your head out when publishing a Hub, you’ve probably noticed the amazing work of the HubNuggets Team, which has been led by the one and only Canadian sensation herself, Shirley Anderson. Each and ever week they scour through…
Read MoreWho Let These Guys In Here? HubPages Makes It Into The Top 100 Websites In The US! (with champagne celebration video)
Yep, it’s now official — HubPages is now a top 100 website in the US. Here’s the screenshot to prove it. Thanks to all of you awesome Hubbers who have helped us get to this point and let’s keep on moving up that list! UPDATE: Here’s a quick video of our top 100 champagne celebration…
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 New Customizable Home Page
HubPages recently announced the new customizable home page. This was created with two goals in mind: 1) Improve the ability to track the content that they are most interested in 2) Improve the ability to organize the presentation of this content in the most convenient way. In today’s blog, I will walk you through the…
Read MoreGoing To BlogWorld 2009 In Las Vegas, Looking To Meet Interesting/Fun/Crazy People
I’m happy to announce that for the second year in a row I’m heading out to Las Vegas to partake in what I think is the greatest social media event that anyone in the industry could go to — BlogWorld 2009. I know that’s saying a lot and coming from a guy who has been around…
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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