1. Get all of your content writers involved: It is important especially in the early stages to have a strong community. For this, encourage interaction by asking experts and skilled writers to participate in the process of creating content before democratizing the entire process.
2. Encourage copy corrections: With many eyes glued to your hosted content, one user or the other is bound to make note of it when there is a mistake, so allow for a good feedback module.
3. Know when to moderate or intervene: Though you should allow freedom in content creation, it is important that you keep tab on basic editing for spelling errors and misleading content.
4. Do not worry if things tend to get messy: User-generated content is bound to be random or disorganized to an extent as compared to something your in-house content team puts together.
5. Add some excitement: Make the process of creating content exciting and appealing. Create a Q & A section to encourage greater user participation where users can seek help and information. Enable notification features, and encourage users to come back and contribute by informing them when there is a response to something they have posted or created.

“We offered 33 bucks – not too long ago – and it is 11 and a half (Yahoo share price). So I do not know what price might have got the job done,”

Steve Ballmer, the Microsoft Chief Executive recently said. He was responding to a query posed by David Smith, a Gartner analyst, on whether the firm might take another swing at acquiring Yahoo now that its stock is so low.

“It is clear that Yahoo did not want to sell the firm. It did not want to sell when we were ready to offer 33. They probably think it is worth at least 33 today.”

Yahoo declined to make any comment. Its shares after the hope of renewed negotiations rose on the Nasdaq, before falling again. In fact, shares of Yahoo have plunged to a new 5-1/2-year low since talks between the two firms broke off.

“Our position has not changed. They (Microsoft) have no interest in acquiring Yahoo. There are no discussions going on between the companies,”

a Microsoft spokesman said in a statement.

Despite the market’s new found excitement over the news, any pursuit of further fresh talks would get impeded by several vexing issues, comprising severely depressed stock price of Yahoo and also the rather poor outlook for the advertising market owing to the weak economy, analysts stated.

The number of searches handled by the Internet giant has gone up astronomically. Google reported it handled in 1998 close to 10,000 searches a day. That number shot up to 500,000 a day in a yaer’s time. Google does not share the numbers widely, but according to research group comScore estimate, Google hosted around 235 million searches a day this July to give some idea of their reach.

There is another way to gauge Google’s popularity and growth. In 1998 the first Google index had nearly 26 million Web pages, whereas in July, a Google search engineer happened to dig out how many unique URLs it searches to find content online: the number was a whopping 1 trillion. At this rate, a ‘googol’ worth of pages (1 followed by 100 zeros) can just be a few years away.

Online publishers that use WidgetBucks can pick from a gallery that has over 125 pre-designed skins. They can easily apply to existing or new shopping ad widgets from WidgetBucks. These ad widgets are available in standard IAB sizes.

Publishers who want to spice up their ad creative may use the DIY design tools of WidgetBucks. You just need two basic applications that include Notepad and MS paint. Then you can easily create the skin. This particular option provides the publishers to develop a powerful customisation that can have an integrated look.

Both custom and gallery tools can be accessed by publishers in creating or editing existing widgets. You can use these skins in your website or blog.

According to the chairman and CEO of widget bucks Matt Hulett, a day should come when all the online advertising becomes widget based. Relevant and dynamic ads can get a lot of revenue for bloggers and publishers.