Oh. My. Goodness. We did it. Thanks to all of you awesomely-super-fantastic-radical Hubbers out there who voted for us last week, HubPages have officially been chosen as a finalist in The 2008 Mashable Open Web Awards. But, just because we made it into the final round doesn’t mean that we can slack off now and…
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 MoreBike Time Trials In The Office
Last week we decided to fire up a little competition in the office and held some bike time trials to see who could ride around the office the fastest without killing someone else (I almost ran over Larry) or killing ourselves (I ate it pretty hard during a run) in the process. Check out the…
Read MoreNominate HubPages for Mashable’s Open Web Awards (please)
I have been seeing some major buzz about the 2008 Mashable Open Web Awards that is now calling for nominations. I’m not usually a huge fan of these types of competitions and awards, but I love the Mashable blog and it would generate some great chatter for HubPages if we would be picked as a…
Read MoreSF NewTech, Here We Come
One week from now on November 18th I’ll be giving yet another demo of HubPages to hundreds of early-adopting, cocktail-drinking and uber-socializing San Franciscans at SF NewTech. I’m looking forward to getting a chance to preach the HubPages gospel once again, all while better refining my live demo skills. My last two demo opportunities at…
Read MoreNew and Improved User Guide Coming Soon
When I went to the Snap Summit^3 a few weeks ago I walked away with a few precious nuggets of information that I will be trying to implement in the upcoming months. From an events and conferences standpoint if I can walk away with a few solid things that I can actually put into action(and…
Read MoreSome Interesting HubMob Stats, Facts and Figures
For a little over 2 months now I’ve been running an idea that I came up with called the Weekly HubMob. Basically what the HubMob consists of is one single topic area that I choose each week that every Hubber can answer by publishing a Hub based upon their own take on the topic area.…
Read MoreThe True Power Of Linking
Chris Brogan, a super-blogger that I had the chance to meet out at BlogWorld Expo a couple months back, posted a great blog a few days ago about the vital importance of links and the basics that we all should know about them. The hyperlink is and always has been the building block if the…
Read MoreSiliconValley NewTech Demo Tomorrow Night
After doing a pretty solid demo at last week’s Snap Summit^3, it’s time to do it all over again at the SiliconValley NewTech Meetup in Palo Alto tomorrow night at 7pm. So get out there and get your vote on early so that you can come see first hand what HubPages is all about. If…
Read More200,000 Published Hubs Coming Soon
After looking at some of the reports that we have running here at HubPages, I noticed that we are getting really, really close to officially publishing our 200,000th Hub. This is an amazing achievement, considering that these are strictly the Hubs that have been published and actually stick around after making it through our super-duper…
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