DaniWeb IT Discussion Community is a free, online, interactive publication for developers and technology enthusiasts. As of December 2007, it has over 250,000 members (20% of the members have contributed over a half million posts). The website is especially well known among the vBulletin community for its unique method of building an entire site, including proprietary content management system, exclusively on top of the vBulletin forum framework. vBulletin (abbreviated as vB) is a commercial Internet forum software produced by Jelsoft Enterprises A content management system ( CMS) is a computer application used to create edit manage and publish content in a consistently organized fashion
DaniWeb began gaining widespread attention throughout the search engine optimization industry in 2005 when the founder, Dani Horowitz, released a free Apache mod_rewrite hack for vBulletin 3. Search engine optimization ( SEO also search optimization) is the process of editing and organizing the content on a webpage or across a website to increase its potential A rewrite engine also known as URL rewriting, is software which modifies a web URL 's appearance x [1]. Although no longer maintained, to date, the tutorial explaining how to apply the hack has been accessed over 100,000 times. More recently, DaniWeb began publishing and featuring IT news which has subsequently received mainstream attention in the media.
In January 2007, DaniWeb staff writer Davey Winder published a story that TomTom GPS devices were being released from the factory virus infected [2]. Davey Winder, previously known as "Wavey Davey" or "dwindera" but now settled as "happygeek" is a United Kingdom IT pundit who has worked TomTom NV ( is a Dutch manufacturer of Automotive navigation systems including both stand-alone units and software for Personal digital assistants As a result, DaniWeb was quoted by both PC World and ZDNet and mentioned throughout many other leading technology publications. Within days, TomTom released a press release acknowledging DaniWeb's story.
DaniWeb resurfaced in the media in May 2007 with an article exposing a serious security vulnerability in the official website for the Indian government that manages visa applications [3]. As a result, the BBC's Channel4 News did an in-person interview with DaniWeb's Davey Winder, at Winder's home, for their evening edition. The video report is currently available on the Channel4 website. The story later received notable attention from websites such as The Inquirer.
To date, DaniWeb stories have been featured on the homepage of Digg four times and Slashdot five times. Digg is a Website made for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet, by submitting links and stories and voting and commenting on submitted Slashdot, often abbreviated as /, is a technology-related news Website owned by SourceForge Inc
In November 2007, DaniWeb acquired ProgrammingForums. org, a free online community targeted at professional and hobbyist programmers.
Publications Carrying the TomTom Story
References
- ^ vBulletin mod_rewrite Tutorial on DaniWeb
- ^ DaniWeb - TomTom admits Satnav device is infected with virus
- ^ DaniWeb - Exposed: Indian visa application data accessible to anyone with a web browser
External links
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