Red Door Interactive: On the Internet: July 2007

Murdoch Seen Winning in Bid for Dow Jones - New York Times

Just something that everyone should know: It looks like News Corp. is going to own The Wall Street Journal (Dow Jones & Company, more specifically). MySpace and the weighty WSJ have now effectively eradicated what few degrees of separation they once had. "He ain't heavy, he's my brother."

Posted by Reid

3:31 PM 0 comments

Wikia details plans for search rival to Google | Technology | Internet | Reuters

Wikia details plans for search rival to Google

Does search engine optimization change as a result of the most popular "Encyclopedia" in the world competing with the most popular search engine in the world? Isn't it ironic that at the top of so many search results pages sits this new "search rival?"

Posted by Reid

10:30 AM 0 comments

A great 'visual' directory of web 2.0 applications and services.

This site provides a nice 'visual' directory of web 2.0 applications and services. I like how they use all of the logos on the page with quick descriptions as you hover to see if it's something you're interested in. A nice add for del.icio.us...

Posted by jeannie fratoni

5:13 PM 0 comments

2007's must have Christmas gift...

Bill Tancer at Hitwise is running some interesting analytics; considering PricewaterhouseCoopers (PcW) is predicting Games over Music for 2007. Bill Tancer has an excellent blog today regarding xBox360 surpassing Nintendo Wii because most people searched for gaming console.

Posted by Paul J. Bruemmer

9:04 AM 0 comments

Google, Yahoo Both Working On Next Generation Social Networks

Heads up on what Google and Yahoo are doing in this space. A video embedded in the page shows how Socialstream works (Google). It seems to aggregate all your social networking in one place.

Posted by damo

2:45 PM 0 comments

C-level exec's and Web 2.0

Interesting article polling executives from global companies who were asked which of nine Web 2.0 technologies they were currently investing in, and how their use of these technologies has evolved...

Full story at BusinessWeek.com > Innovation

Posted by Paul J. Bruemmer

2:55 PM 0 comments

Yahoo, Others Work to Up Relevance of Online Ads

How do you personalize online ads to many different markets without increasing the cost of creative production? Yahoo introduces SmartAds. A new technology that has "lifted response two to three times above what ads were previously getting."

Posted by Michelle Preston

9:58 AM 0 comments

7-Elevens Become Simpsons 'Kwik-E-Marts' - MSN TV News

I love this way to promote the new Simpsons Movie -- down to the detail of selling the infamous real-world knock-offs of the show such as Krusty-O's -- in such a unique, non-media way. This supports the concept of "presence" rather than the destination. The end-result of this promotion is too soon to tell, of course, but the fact that I am talking about it here as a result of reading it on MSN... the promotion will likely be successful; we'll see about the movie.

Labels: movie, presence, Simpsons