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 separate enterprises, all of which came under the umbrella of their parent company, the Heise Media Group.
Heise publishes the magazines iX, c't, the German edition of 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 increase in web traffic to the referenced sites and can cause some to become temporarily unavailable. While in the English speaking world this is known as the Slashdot effect, among German speakers this is referred to as the Heise effect, or arguably inappropriately, Heise-DDoS.
The Heise forum is also well known for its troll wars.
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