DaniWeb
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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.
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.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 Although no longer maintained, to date, the tutorial explaining how to apply the hack has been accessed over 100,000 times.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]. 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.
In November 2007, DaniWeb acquired ProgrammingForums.org, a free online community targeted at professional and hobbyist programmers.
[edit] Publications Carrying the TomTom Story
[edit] 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
