HubPages
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| Type | Web Publishing |
| Founded | 2006 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Key people | Paul Edmondson, Founder and CEO. Jay Reitz, Founder |
| Industry | Internet |
| Employees | 12 |
| Website | hubpages.com |
HubPages is a website designed around sharing advertising revenue for high-quality, user-generated content. The interface resembles predecessors like Squidoo, allowing members to create individual pages on narrow topics of general interest. HubPages differs from other blog networking sites by using the Google AdSense API to manage revenue-sharing with writers.[1][2]
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[edit] History
The site launched in August 2006 after collecting a $2 million investment from Hummer Winblad.[3] According to a report from Quantcast, HubPages has become one of the 400 most visited US sites on the Internet with more than 3.7 million unique views per month from the US alone in 2007.[4]
[edit] Structure
Individual pages are referred to as hubs, and the authors are called hubbers. Hubbers retain all intellectual property rights for the materials they upload to their hubs, and they are encouraged to write about subjects which they can contribute to with personal experience and knowledge. HubPages hosts and moderates a forum where members discuss a large array of subjects including developments at HubPages. The website also offers a system which has been compared to Yahoo Answers[5] where members can request for other hubbers to create hubs on specific topics.
[edit] See also
- Knol is a planned Google service which will implement the same idea.
- Squidoo is a web publishing company with many similarities in business model, internal structure and traffic.
[edit] References
- ^ Riley, Duncan. "HubPages Debuts New Look, Ad Yield Technology", TechCrunch, 2007-05-07. Retrieved on 2008-04-08.
- ^ Google (2008). HubPages Case Study (English). Retrieved on 08, 2008. Retrieved on April 2008.
- ^ Arrington, Michael. "HubPages Launches, Gets $2 m from Hummer Winblad", TechCrunch, 2006-08-05. Retrieved on 2008-04-08.
- ^ Quantcast, HubPages Report, [[Quantcast]], 2008-04-08.
- ^ Nicole, Kristen. "HubPages Launches Yahoo Answers Rival", Mashable, 2007-07-02. Retrieved on 2008-04-08.
