Topic

Digital

  • Short Cuts

    Caesars Palace has unveiled the Caesars Luxury Collection (caesarsluxurycollection.com) a Web site offering Pratesi linens, diamond earrings, Cartier fragrance and an extensive selection of Montblanc tobacconist accessories.

  • Medio Pitches On-Deck Mobile Search and Ads

    Speaking at a Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco last month, Google CEO Eric Schmidt summed up his vision of his company’s future in a pithy three-word mantra: “Mobile, mobile, mobile.” Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft have all attracted a lot of attention in the last few months with their efforts to expand their search business into the mobile world. But among the many factors that make search on a phone different from doing so on a desktop, one in particular may complicate life for the Big Three engines: the wireless carriers as gatekeepers of mobile services.

  • 51% of Consumers Research Online, Buy Offline: Forrester

    Slightly more than half of online U.S. consumers — or 51% — said they have researched a product online, and then bought it at a retail store, according to a study released this week by Forrester Research.

  • One-Third of U.S. Logs on a Lot, But Half Doesn’t Care: Pew

    According to a new survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 31% of American adults get lots of use, productivity and satisfaction out of using Internet-connected technology (computers, mobile phones, personal digital assistants), while 20% use the technology grudgingly– and almost half could care less.

  • About.com Buys Product Review Site

    Online reference and content site About.com, a New York Times Co. property, announced that it has bought ConsumerSearch.com, a Web site that solicits and compiles reviews of consumer products.

  • Make Friends—And Donors: Why Nonprofits Should Get Social

    Social networks like MySpace can be a great way for nonprofits to build a network of “friends” to mobilize for advocacy and fundraising efforts, according to Sue Zeiler, senior strategic consultant with Mindshare Interactive.

  • Farming the Marshland: Chitika Targets the Blogosphere

    It would be a vast understatement to say that a few years ago, advertisers were skeptical about potential of blogs, seeing the blogosphere as an untamed marshland.

    “Now, advertisers are running to us and saying ‘wow, we were wrong,'” says Venkat Kolluri, CEO of Chitika, a contextual advertising firm which is helping bloggers monetize their efforts with targeted advertising.

  • Social Networking Web Site Inserts Ads in E-mail Correspondence

    The social networking Web site Tagged.com plans to begin inserting behaviorally targeted text ads or taglines into the footer of users’ e-mail correspondence.

  • Moving Pictures That Move Product

    (Direct) When it comes to video ads on the Internet, advertisers have shown themselves willing to jump in with both feet, provided they can get answers to two questions: How will they work, and what can they do?