Frankly, I am ill equipped to tell you the history of HubPages. There are many qualified senior members here who can tell the story better. But then I thought why not dig a little deep and see whether I can come up with something. Well, here's what I've found.

In January 2006, a group of three enterprising adventurers left their home and family, and moved into a three level house in Berkeley, California. They are none other than the now famous Paul Edmondson the CEO, Jay Reitz and Paul Deeds the engineers. Paul Edmondson was previously the Group Product Manager for MSN Entertainment, Jay Reitz was the Development Manager, and Paul Deeds was a developer in Windows Media Internet Services. So that's a formidable team. (Jason Menayen and Tom Schirmer joined the company in September whose roles are in marketing and software respectively)

You can find the story in Paul's words HERE

After a lot of hard work, development, trial and testing the website was finally launched on August 5th 2006 with the help of Hummer Winblad - a venture partner. Paul and company managed to raise $2 million in funding from Winblad and Mitchel Kertzman represents them on the HubPages director's board.

Paul admits that the company wouldn't have gotten this far without Winblad, friends and family, especially Paul's wife Robin, who is a great hubber here.

You can find a little more of the story HERE

I have seen a lot of develpoment and improvement here since I have joined 24 weeks ago. The look and feel of the HubPages are much better now. Features like picture slide shows, video clips(currently only from YouTube and Google) and a very helpful member's forum are a part of the site now. The adult stuff is no more acceptable and a more refined scoring system is in place. The periodic News Letters help the members with tips and keep abreast of the latest developments at the site. Although there are still room for improvement, in my opinion, the site has become the best in similar categories with more than 40,000 registered members and growing.

By May 2007 HubPages were attracting around 2.4 million unique visitors a month which I think must have come down a little bit since the adult Hubbers have moved out. According to Duncan Riley of TechCrunch, Paul claims that a handful of Hubbers are making around 1000 Dollars a month with the Top Hubber making around 1800 Dollars a month. I do not know for sure but certainly those figures are quite inspirational for me, since I never made anything anywhere near!

In my opinion HubPages are poised for better growth and future with some more improvements and upgrades in the anvil. Way to go!

ALL THE BEST TO MY FELLOW HUBBERS & THE HUB TEAM!