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DaniWeb IT Discussion Community is an on-line IT discussion community. As of October 2010, over 800,000 people have become members (20% of the members have contributed over a million posts). However, many believe that DaniWeb boasts inaccurate member counts, due to a policy that they never delete or deactivate accounts, and therefore a member who registered years ago but hasn't returned to the site since, will still be counted as a community member. 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 Although no longer maintained, to date, the tutorial explaining how to apply the hack has been accessed over 300,000 times.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, Tom Tom 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 VFS India website that handled visa applications for the British government [3]. As a result, the UK'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.
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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