Miss America is taking steps to keep kids safe on the Internet with a new web browser designed especially for kids. Miss America, Lauren Nelson, spoke exclusively in a video interview with WebProNews about the launch. The browser is a partnership with the Children’s Educational Network.

I have just arrived at the Rio Resort in Las Vegas and will be attending WebTrends’ Engage 2007 tomorrow. I am actually on an "expert panel" where we’ll be discussing different aspects of the buzz phrase: Consumer Engagement. The topics surrounding consumer engagement will include:

Well, it was bound to happen: Google has finally made another acquisition, and this time, the lucky target was a company known as Jaiku.

Search Engine Land will host the first annual SMX Social Media conference next week in New York. The event will take place Tuesday October 16 and Wednesday October 17. WebProNews will be there covering the event and will offer same day video interviews of the speakers.

As time goes by, and we get to read more and more on the various benefits from

The recent slap a handful of directories experienced was unaccompanied by an explanation from Google, though the general consensus (maybe) was that Google’s webspam team was sending a message. Weeks later, WebProNews has wrangled a response from Google’s Webmaster Central team – sort of.

Ads have the ability to both make money and annoy users; finding the right balance between these results is a goal of just about every company.  Now it appears that Twitter may soon implement ads, and the microblogging service is first kissing up to its fans with random compliments.