Origins of Hubsess.com
September 21st, 2007The idea for Hubsess actually came from a Mark Cuban Blog Post.
It was this portion of the article that got me thinking:
The other response was along the ideas of what i call “personal tagging or networking”. In other words, i have something Im going to give you, and you in turn can use it and pass it on and we shall cherish our communal experience. We can write about it. Talk about it. Meet about it in any digital or real location. Call it theatrical marketing 2.0.
The original idea of Hubsess was a social networking site. Social networks are built on something. MySpace was built on the music scene and facebook on colleges. Hubsess was designed to allow people to build there own network. Hubsess still has social networking functionality, but it isn’t as prevalent as I thought it would be.
Ryan and I started the site. We didn’t register a domain, but used temporary hosting and called our site Project Foxtrot. Our site has gone through many names. First we called it Relatoid, then Hubquarters, then finally Hubsess.
As the site was being built, we started creating Hubs. Our first major group of Hubs, was every city in the USA. We then started adding Schools across the USA.
We were coming along nicely, when we had the idea to add news to Hubs. We added the ability to add individual stories to Hubs. Eventually we added the functionality of adding RSS feeds, and the ability to search RSS feeds for phrases.
The site is a work in progress, and we would love your feedback about it.
You can reach us here: webmaster@hubsess.com
-Tim