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Katherine Olson of Minnesota thought she was answering a normal posting on Craigslist. The posting asked for a nanny and Olson had a background in babysitting, so she decided to meet the parents to check out the situation. Olson’s body was found later in her car in a park near the author’s house. The [...] Tags: Craigslist, Kara Ratliff, Katherine Olson, Murder, News Update, Savage Minnesota

Gail Mortenson recently filed a petition with the FCC asking that Internet Service Providers be required to forward email from a closed account to a new one. Mortenson claims she lost potential customers because they could not reach her. Public Knowledge, a public interest group, has been examining the case closely. WebProNews spoke with Art Brodsky, [...]

The Internet Watch Foundation recently sponsored an awareness day to make people aware of the problems of child pornography. Bigger companies like Yahoo and MSN supported the day by running advertisements. WebProNews Reporter Kara Ratliff digs deeper into the world of child pornography online; we talked with author of Profiling Violent Crimes, Sex [...] Tags: Child Pornography awareness, Dr. Ronald Holmes, Internet Watch Foundation, Kara Ratliff, MSN, News Update, yahoo

Mobile searches are becoming a rapidly growing market and the top search engines are looking to become the number one player in the contest. WebProNews Reporter Kara Ratliff talked with Senior SEO Analyst from Blue Moon Works, Cindy Krum about the present state and the future of mobile technology. She also talks about the possibility [...] Tags: Blue Moon Works, Cindy Krum, Google, Kara Ratliff, Mobile Search, Mobile Techonology, News Update

As the Internet is continuing to become a primary resource for information, it seems only natural that books and the information within them would also be on the Internet. Many companies and organizations including search engines are working with libraries to digitize their collections of books. WebProNews Reporter Abby Prince spoke to Google’s Gabriel Stricker, Brewster [...] Tags: Abby Prince, Barbara Preece, Boston Library Consortium, Brewser Kahle, Gabriel Stricker, Google Book Search, News Update, Online Books, Open Content Alliance

StumbleUpon looks to take a bigger step in expanding its uses. The Web discovery service added a new feature called search reviews. The new tool shows an icon beside of a link found on major search engines and other content Websites like YouTube. The icon lets users see what sites are popular and how [...] Tags: Kara Ratliff, News Update, Search Reviews, StumbleUpon

Moving along in the social networking craze, LifeAt.com and MeetTheNeighbors.org offer a way to get to know your real neighbors in your apartment building or your neighborhood. WebProNews Reporter Kara Ratliff spoke with Chief Operating Officer for LifeAt, Matthew Goldstein and Creator of MeetTheNeighbors, Jared Nissim about the two companies. For more information on [...] Tags: Jared Nissim, Kara Ratliff, LifeAt.com, Matthew Goldstein, MeetTheNeighbors.org, News Update, Social Networking

The tension is getting very thick on The Next Internet Millionaire. Episode 9 is now available and WebProNews has all the details. Contestants got to hear Ray Edwards speak about copywriting, and then their teams had to apply the lesson by creating a sales letter for Jen Groover’s Butler Bag. Only one team could win [...] Tags: Abby Prince, Butler Bag, Internet Marketing, Jen Groover, Joel Comm, News Update, Ray Edwards

President of 10e20, Chris Winfield talked with Kara Ratliff of WebProNews after SMX Social Media 2007 in New York City. He discusses the importance of Digg as well as some key points when trying to use Digg to promote yourself. He talks about why Digg is the best social news bookmarking site to [...] Tags: 10e20, Chris Winfield, Digg, Kara Ratliff, SMX, Social News Bookmarking

Recently, Ancestry.com announced its DNA testing launch, and The Generations Network, or parent company of Ancestry, announced that Spectrum Equity Investors would lead an investment to purchase interest in the company. WebProNews spoke with Ancestry’s Chief Family Historian, Megan Smolenyak, and Tim Sullivan the President and CEO of The Generations Network about both announcements. Ancestry.com [...] Tags: Abby Prince, Ancestry.com, DNA, Genealogy, Megan Smolenyak, News Update, Sorenson Genomics, Spectrum Equity Investors, The Generations Network, Tim Sullivan