Heinz Heise
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Heinz Heise is a German publishing house. It was created in Hanover in 1949 as an address and telephone directory publisher, then later expanded to include magazines and loose leaf collections. In 2002, the company was divided into independent societies, all of which came under the umbrella of their parent company, the Heise Media Group.
Heise publishes the magazines iX, c't, Technology Review and the online magazine Telepolis. These publications feed into the Heise News Ticker, which ranks among the most successful German language news portals. The most used part of the Heise News Ticker is its forum.
Links from the Heise site can cause a massive web traffic increase and can lead to some sites being overloaded or make them temporary unavailable. Because of the content of the site this is comparable to the Slashdot effect and is known as the Heise effect, heisen, geheist or Heise-DDoS.
The Heise forum is also well known for its troll wars.
External links
- Heise magazines publishing house (http://www.heise.de)
- Heise media group (http://www.heise-medien.de/)
- Heise forum (http://www.heise.de/foren/)