The Hubpages team was founded by three guys out of Microsoft that were part of the successful startup MongoMusic. The team includes Paul Edmondson, Jay Reitz, and Paul Deeds.Many of you may have heard of Squidoo which is a competitor of Hubpages. Basically both of them are a free-hosted community of content producers . Both Squidoo and Hubpages can be grouped into the Web 2.0 movement where user generated content rules.Both Squidoo and Hubpages SHARE REVENUE with their content creators (YOU). In my experience the revenue numbers are still low, but the opportunity is growing. (But as you will see throughout this report, there are MANY other reasons to focus on Hubpages vs. just the revenue sharing . . .)