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 MoreCrowdsourcing: the Book
In my view, one of the coolest terms out now is Crowdsourcing. This is a term that was first proposed by Jeff Howe of Wired Magazine in June, 2006. His goal with the term was to call attention to the emerging trend of user-generated content. Implicit in the term is the idea that the communities…
Read MoreCategories and Tags: Why Not Have Both
When Joshua Schachter first came up with the idea of tagging in 2003, most people didn’t get it. Del.icio.us had its strange url and offered the seemingly simple idea of social bookmarks and tagging. Today, Delicious is seen as one of those classic technology stories. Start up innovates, gains a buzz, and sets off a…
Read MoreHow much money can you really make on HubPages?
I was recently talking with former colleagues about HubPages and I was asked the usual questions. The first question is usually why should I write a hub as opposed to a blog. I’ve already covered this question so I will focus on the other questions that I was asked: How much money can you really…
Read MoreHubPages: 8 million visitors looking at 200,000 hubs!
Ryan Hupfer recently announced that HubPages reached its 200,000th hub on October 30th. At the time that I am writing this, HubPages has over 208,000 published hubs. At HubPages, we are very excited about these numbers but if you do the math, this also represents a very interesting opportunity for hub authors. According to Quantcast,…
Read MoreRevenue Sharing Web Sites
How much do your favorite web sites pay you for your participation? Each of us routinely surfs the web without ever thinking about the fact that most of the places we visit, won’t pay us for going there. When we post a question or answer on a forum, when we propose a solution on Yahoo!…
Read MoreHubs versus Blogs
I still consider myself a newcomer to hubbing. Since I started at HubPages on June 30, it has really been a great opportunity to reexamine my experience with blogging. I now believe that some content is best published through a hub while other content may fit better in a blog. I have been blogging actively…
Read MoreMeet Khevan, the San Francisco street sax player
Today was yet another wonderful day in the beautiful city of San Francisco and as I have done a few times already before, I’d like to continue to post different things, places and people who seem to catch my interest as I do my day-to-day thing here at HubPages Headquarters. One thing that I love…
Read MoreJust another morning ride into the office
I love working in San Francisco, but one of the first things that I had to get used to when I began commuting from Palo Alto on the train was riding my bike through traffic. It’s pretty amazing how comfortable I’ve become with weaving in and out of cars, buses, trolleys and homeless people while…
Read MoreBehind the scenes at the San Francisco HubPages HQ
As you can probably already tell, this blog is going to have a very wide range of post topics ranging anywhere from new HubPages features to Hubber(members of the HubPages community) spotlights to random bits of information that we’d like to share with the world. But, as a whole, this blog will help you build…
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