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…
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 MoreSome More Sweet Demo Action at the Snap Summit^3 Conference
A few days ago I was offered a chance to give a HubPages demo at the Snap Summit^3 Conference, which is one of the top events for anyone who is currently working in the social web space. This will be my first official chance to give a full HubPages demo to the ‘general public’, so…
Read MoreConnecting with the College Kids
Each day there are tons of different topics that come through HubPages from our awesome community of Hubbers. But, when I saw a Hubber named rethansmith(aka Ethan) for some reason he seemed to stick out a little bit more than most. You see, at the ripe-old age of 19, Ethan is one of our younger…
Read MoreA Quick Mention in the NYT Bits Blog
A couple of days ago we were given a quick mention in the New York Times Bits blog that focuses on tech and Internet news. We were brought up due to the fact that we’re one of Glam Media’s larger publisher’s, who the post was focusing on. We’ve been running ads from the Glam network…
Read MoreHubPages Gets Some Mommy Blogger Love
This might sound kind of sad, but the first thing that I do each morning when I wake up bright and early at 6:15am is check my email on my BlackBerry. Yeah, it’s slightly overboard, but my BlackBerry is right there next to me and since it doubles as my alarm and I have to…
Read MoreThe Long Tail of HubPages
Ok, so this is something that has been on my mind for a while, so bare with me if I start to go off on some type of blogging tangent. I just felt like I had to get these thoughts written out somewhere, even if they didn’t make the most sense at this point. There…
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