Leaf Group Ltd.

Demand Media, Inc.

Laurent Gherardi

Mark Conrad Jones

Sean Muller

Dennis A Ameen

Ewan Godley

Brian Havener

Glenn Moran

Richard Rosenblatt

Dean Busenbark

Larry Fitzgibbon

Adam Youngers

Greg Griffin

Joey C Perez

Jon R Jurgens, Jr

The invention is directed to a User Publishing System (UPS) that enables both content publishing for users that share what they know in articles and enabling these users to get paid for providing the content through use of a User Compensation System (UCS). The invention enables users to create and edit content in multiple formats, from multiple sources, and in multiple languages. The system can be integrated for use with a plurality of different websites and adopt both the look and feel and the content format of each website, and/or other communication medium. Compensation may be provided to the user providing the content based on a variety of metrics.

User generated content publishing system

Embodiments of the invention are directed to enabling a user to navigate to a web page or other resource in a taxonomy of resources using a crumb provided in a user interface. The crumb is associated with a category of web pages in the taxonomy. When a user indicates the crumb, such as hovering over the crumb, additional crumbs are displayed, so that the user may directly navigate to another web page in the taxonomy. The additional crumbs may be in the same, or a different category. The user can select a crumb from any category to navigate forward and backward in the taxonomy. The taxonomy may be independent of a storage structure for the web pages. The crumbs may be in a toolbar, script, or other module that interfaces with a local or remote taxonomy processor to access and dynamically manage the taxonomy of web pages.

Cross taxonomy navigation from a bread crumb in a graphical user interface

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