Disney.com
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Disney.com is a website, owned by The Walt Disney Company
and its subsidiaries, promotes the Disney theme parks and offers entertainment content intended for children.
For years, Disney.com has been a very popular website: a survey back in April 1998 revealed that Disney.com had over 10% more unique visitors than ABCNews.com, and the combined Disney/Infoseek websites were second in web traffic to leader Yahoo! that month.
Website Disney.com is managed by the Disney Online unit of the Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG), a subsidiary division of The Walt Disney Company
The WDIG division also runs the websites for the ABC
network
, ABC.com and ABCNEWS.com, as well as top sports site ESPN.com
. It was redesigned to a fully Adobe Flash
website on February 6, 2007.
The current portal is Disney's second effort at a web portal the first being ended with the loss of go.com
. The web site has updated its logos to the Disney brand
, but still is actually a redirect to similar named Disney.go.com.
On September 21, 2011, the content from Disney.com was launched as a free channel available through the Roku
streaming player. It is the first player so far to allow viewing through a television.
for short) is a new service of Disney.com that lets members communicate and interact with each other with chat rooms that are limited to selected phrases and the ability to create your own Disney XD page, which are called channels. Disney XD allows you to watch full-length episodes from Disney Channel and other videos, play online quizzes and games, stream Radio Disney on your computer, and preview new movies and music albums. There is also another feature called Shop DXD. Shop DXD uses your D-Points that you earn from playing games and activities to purchase items for your channel, such as backgrounds and phrases to use for chat rooms. The service is only available in the United States and the United Kingdom.
It is now split into My Pages for pages and Homeroom for TV episodes.
This has no relation to the channel Disney XD.
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Pirates of the Caribbean Online
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Club Penguin
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Pixie Hollow Online,
Virtual Magic Kingdom
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The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company is the largest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into...
and its subsidiaries, promotes the Disney theme parks and offers entertainment content intended for children.
For years, Disney.com has been a very popular website: a survey back in April 1998 revealed that Disney.com had over 10% more unique visitors than ABCNews.com, and the combined Disney/Infoseek websites were second in web traffic to leader Yahoo! that month.
Website Disney.com is managed by the Disney Online unit of the Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG), a subsidiary division of The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company is the largest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into...
The WDIG division also runs the websites for the ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
network
Television network
A television network is a telecommunications network for distribution of television program content, whereby a central operation provides programming to many television stations or pay TV providers. Until the mid-1980s, television programming in most countries of the world was dominated by a small...
, ABC.com and ABCNEWS.com, as well as top sports site ESPN.com
ESPN.com
ESPN.com is the official website of ESPN and a division of ESPN Inc. Since launching in 1995 as ESPNet.SportsZone.com, the website has developed numerous sections including: Page 2, SportsNation, ESPN 3.com, ESPN Motion, My ESPN, ESPN Sports Travel, ESPN Video Games, ESPN Insider, ESPN.com's...
. It was redesigned to a fully Adobe Flash
Adobe Flash
Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements, games and flash animations for broadcast...
website on February 6, 2007.
The current portal is Disney's second effort at a web portal the first being ended with the loss of go.com
Go.com
Go.com is a web portal first launched by Jeff Gold, and now operated by the Walt Disney Internet Group, which is a part of The Walt Disney Company. The portal includes content from ABC News, ESPN, and FamilyFun.com, all of which are associated with Disney and are hosted under a .go.com name...
. The web site has updated its logos to the Disney brand
Brand
The American Marketing Association defines a brand as a "Name, term, design, symbol, or any other feature that identifies one seller's good or service as distinct from those of other sellers."...
, but still is actually a redirect to similar named Disney.go.com.
On September 21, 2011, the content from Disney.com was launched as a free channel available through the Roku
Roku
Roku , is an American, privately held, consumer electronics company that sells home digital media products. The Company is based in Saratoga, California.- Company profile and products :...
streaming player. It is the first player so far to allow viewing through a television.
Disney Xtreme Digital
Disney Xtreme Digital (Disney XDDisney XD
Disney XD is a brand of children's TV channels worldwide targeting young males, owned by The Walt Disney Company. The channel was formerly known as Toon Disney and/or Jetix in most areas. According to Gary Marsh, President of Entertainment for Disney Channel Worldwide, "XD" does not "stand for...
for short) is a new service of Disney.com that lets members communicate and interact with each other with chat rooms that are limited to selected phrases and the ability to create your own Disney XD page, which are called channels. Disney XD allows you to watch full-length episodes from Disney Channel and other videos, play online quizzes and games, stream Radio Disney on your computer, and preview new movies and music albums. There is also another feature called Shop DXD. Shop DXD uses your D-Points that you earn from playing games and activities to purchase items for your channel, such as backgrounds and phrases to use for chat rooms. The service is only available in the United States and the United Kingdom.
It is now split into My Pages for pages and Homeroom for TV episodes.
This has no relation to the channel Disney XD.
Online Games
Toontown OnlineToontown Online
Disney's Toontown Online is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game created by The Walt Disney Company and billed as the first such game intended for kids and families. Designed for children as young as seven, but teens and adults also play this, the depth of the game's content has drawn...
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Pirates of the Caribbean Online
Pirates of the Caribbean Online
Pirates of the Caribbean Online, sometimes shortened to Pirates Online or POTCO, is a MMORPG , created by the Walt Disney Company. It is based on the film series and theme park attraction of the same name...
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Club Penguin
Club Penguin
Club Penguin is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game involving a virtual world containing a range of online games and activities, by Club Penguin Entertainment . Players use cartoon penguin-avatars and play in a winter-set virtual world...
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Pixie Hollow Online,
Virtual Magic Kingdom
Virtual Magic Kingdom
Disney's Virtual Magic Kingdom, also known as VMK, was a free massively multiplayer online game run by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Online. It was a virtual representation of the Disneyland and Magic Kingdom theme parks, containing areas and minigames which were based on real park scenery and...
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