Happy Birthday Hubdub! It’s exactly one year to the day since Hubdub launched and we thought it would be fun to look back at the highs and lows of this rollercoaster year!
We’d like to thank you all for making Hubdub what it is today, and particularly those of you who have stuck around since last January to realise just what a journey it’s been! If any of you have sweet Hubdub memories from the Wild West days, then leave your comment below – we’d love to hear them!
January 2008
We launched at Demo on January 28th – the journalists loved it and we had 20,000 visits on our first day 
Of course our servers crashed 
February 2008
We thought it might be nice to chat to some of our lovely new Hubdubbers so we introduced Friends (shortly followed by shouts). We’d never been so popular before…
Oh, and we realised it might be a good idea to have some Hubdub rules. It was to be the beginning of the end of Hubdub’s Wild West…
March 2008
Governor Spitzer resigned. Well, technically he announced that he was going to resign. And Hubdub had it’s first Hoo Haa. Was it or was it not a resignation? The “Spitzer rule” was added to the Big Book of Rules.
April 2008
Users started to try to “game” the system and the first banning occurred after the first official Hubdub protest strike! Satyaki was no more.
May 2008
Super Users were introduced and came with their newly found Super Powers to the aid of the overworked (and under-paid!) Category Editors. Hubdub was a better place!
June 2008
The first Hubdub millionaire was created – crudsy reached the giddy heights of 7 figure Hubbucks, much to everyone’s amazement.
Meanwhile, we launched Punditwatch – to track the predictions made by some of the more prominent bloggers in business, technology and entertainment. The pundits were horrified to see how badly they’d done!
And there was a small matter of a Democratic nomination.
July 2008
We announced our first official partnership - with Reuters. (and we felt all grown up!)
August 2008
August was all about the Olympics. Hubdub’s Olympic Prediction Center reached the front page of digg.com and had the predicted effect. And the servers didn’t crash
September 2008
We partnered with The Huffington Post (woo hoo!) and The UK Independent (they had faith that our UK users would come…). The excitement was almost too much!
October 2008
The October surprise wasn’t too surprising to Hubdubbers - we correctly predicted the Dow Jones tumble.
To cheer everyone up from the economic gloom, Hubdub introduced Forums and the debates were fierce!
November 2008
Election fever prevailed – and Hubdubbers accurately predicted the Electoral College votes split (apart from that pesky Nebraska one!)
We launched Hubdub in the UK (and had the predictable football vs soccer debate!).
December 2008
Users were seeing stars…when we introduced star levels and a new-look dashboard. Becoming a Hubdub God become a genuine life goal.
We launched our Newspundits blog and the annual Newspundits awards.
January 2009
We rounded the year off on a high when we announced our Series A funding and all took a deep breath…ready for Year 2….bring it on!
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