More competition for Seth Godin’s Squidoo: Hubpages, which launched last week, is a new user-content agent that allows users to create topical web pages including blog-like modules such as comments and syndicate them across the Internet. Pages are tagged by the creator and by readers, allowing for quick browsing among related pages. Users can generate revenue as the pages they create may become hubs for commercial exploitation. If, for example, a user publishes a list of best books on a topic or a review of a product, Hubpages will insert Google ads relevant to the topic, enable links to Amazon, eBay, and other affiliate-paying retailers, and split revenue 50/50 with the page creator. Squidoo only pays 50% of profits to page creators.
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