Last week’s HubMob theme of It’s Raining Men is officially over, but I wanted to take a moment to highlight one of my personal favorites from the awesome group of HubMobsters that joined in on the fun. The Hubs were all themed around gifts that could be given to men for the upcoming Father’s Day,…
Read MoreHot & Fresh HubNuggets Now Posted — Vote Now!
The fantastic HubNuggets team of ProCW, B.T. Evilpants, Shirley Anderson, Patty Inglish, MS and Ripplemaker that we have put together here on HubPages has outdone themselves once again by picking some of the best HubNugget wannabes that I could have ever asked for. From learning how to properly fill out a profile on a dating…
Read MoreThis Week’s HubMob Weekly Topic: It’s Raining Men!
Thanks to the always awesome HubMob team of Princessa and ProCW we have yet another awesome weekly HubMob topic for all of you Hubbers out there to tackle. The topic is It’s Raining Men and Wendy explains the topic by saying: Father’s day is approaching and we all have a significant man in our life,…
Read MoreHave you voted for this week’s HubNuggets?
The weekly HubNugget wannabes are posted up over here in this HubNugget Hub and are ready for your vote. The 5 HubNuggets that get the most votes are sent out in the weekly HubPages newsletter that gets sent out to 50,000+ Hubbers on this Wednesday, April 8th. If you’d like to learn more about what…
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 MoreAre You A Fan Of HubPages? Well, Prove It!
I’ve been spending some time over on Facebook here lately with a mission of figuring out a good way to utilize the power and reach of Facebook’s Fan Pages to help spread the word about the awesome things that we’re doing over here on HubPages. From a word-of-mouth perspective, Facebook certainly has the ability to…
Read MoreThis Is Why We Have Weekly HubNuggets
Several months ago I started to put together a Hub each week that allowed the HubPages community to have a say in deciding which 5 HubNuggets got sent out in our weekly newsletter. Up until this change the HubNuggets were selected by the HubPages team and no one else really had any say in what…
Read MoreOooh, That’s Clever! A Great Presentation That I Missed At SXSW
I just finished up watching a really great SlideShare presentation called Oooh, that’s clever! (unnatural experiments in web design). It was put together by Paul Annett and was presented at SXSW Interactive down in Austin, TX (which I went to). Unfortunately I missed this particular presentation, but thanks to the internets I was able to…
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