One of the things I love most about HubPages is the fascinating and varied expertise of everyone in our community. North Carolina Hubber crazyhorsesghost serves as a great example – he is both an excellent cook and an expert in the paranormal. Yesterday crazyhorsesghost published a Hub about a Big Foot sighting he had on…
Read MoreIt’s Been a Great 2 1/2 Years!
Friday, February 18, will my last day as a HubPages staffer. You will still see me in the forums but I will no longer have the official H on my profile photo. Also, I will no longer be posting my occasional “Larry’s Random Thoughts” in the HubPages blog. This post is the last one before…
Read MoreLisa New England Gets Props from a Real Housewife of New York!
It is not every day that a television celebrity recognizes your work, but Lisa New England could tell you that it still does happen! A couple days back, Jill Zarin, a Real Housewife of New York, posted a link to Lisa’s Hub on the show’s finale, pointing out that a lot of hurtful or misinformed things…
Read MoreFive Reasons You’ll Enjoy the HubPages Students Page
In case you haven’t noticed, we recently launched a special page for college students on HubPages. It’s designed to pool student resources in one place and highlight excellent college-related or academic Hubs. Here are five fun aspects of the page – for students and non-students alike! It features a new contest: The weekly HubPages Top…
Read MoreHubPages at BlogWorld, 2010
Hey hubbers! Going to BlogWorld this week? So are we! That’s right- you’ll find us in booth 411 on the Exhibition Floor, and we’re going to be having a blast! Stop by our booth and enter in our contest- we’re going to challenge everyone to determine which hubs get more traffic, and those who guess…
Read MoreA Visit from thisisoli
This afternoon, HubPages HQ was visited by none other than thisisoli, an Austin-based hubber who is visiting San Francisco at the end of a lovely California vacation with his wife. thisisoli, a HubPages member of two years now, is the third hubber to visit us at 95 Minna Street. He had a look at the…
Read MoreHubPages Marks the Spot – HubPages’ Contest Featuring the (Treasure)Map Capsule
This September, HubPages is setting sail on its most boisterous contest yet: HubPages Marks the Spot! HubPages Marks the Spot, sponsored by Outside.in, is all about mapping out local treasures using the HubPages Map Capsule – and sharing lots of loot with those HubBuccaneers who care to join us. This contest has not four but five kinds…
Read MoreIntroducing The First Ever HubCamp!
On the final week of September, HubPages is going to hold HubCamp: an in-person meeting of Hubbers in San Francisco where we’ll go over some of the finer points of becoming an effective online writer. Wer’e still in the planning stages, but because it’s all about the hubber community, we were hoping you’d let us…
Read MoreHubPages Behind the Scenes: Larry and the HubPages iPhone App
With this installment of HubPages Behind the Scenes, HubPages’ very own Larry Freeman shares his experience with creating and working on the HubPages iPhone app! If you listen carefully enough, you can hear Ren in the background 😉 If you don’t already have our fabulous iPhone app (which, BTW, is totally free), you can download…
Read MoreHubPages’ Billionth Hub View
At 11:41am on a warm New England morning, a sweet-toothed anonymous Internet adventurer ventured forth in search of one thing and one thing only: sponge cake recipes. What did this intrepid explorer discover? Nothing short of our very own Angela Harris’ Sponge Cake Recipe – a short but sweet recipe hub first published in 2008.…
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