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Digital Spy
URL	http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/
Commercial?	Yes
Type of site	Entertainment
Registration	Free/restricted to ISP e-mail
Owner	Digital Spy Ltd
Created by	Digital Spy Ltd

Digital Spy (or DS as it is often known by its users) is a British media and entertainment website, noted for its extensive Big Brother coverage and forums. The site was established on January 18, 1999 when the operations of the digiNEWS network were merged and Digital Spy Ltd was formally incorporated in 2001^[1]. The website's latest design was launched on March 1, 2006. Digitial Spy has been described as "the nation's favourite showbiz website" by one magazine.^[2] Image File history File links Emblem-important. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1026x713, 226 KB) Summary Digital Spys Webpage www. ... “URL” redirects here. ... A stilt-walker entertaining shoppers at a shopping centre in Swindon, England Entertainment is an event, performance, or activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation to an audience (although, for example, in the case of a computer game the audience may be only one person). ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... For the current series, see Big Brother 2007 (UK). ... is the 18th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 60th day of the year (61st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Forums

The site also features forums which went live in March 2000. The forums themselves incorporate one of the largest media-based discussion centres on the internet, with topics covering the above as well as computing, telephony, gaming, politics, radio, sport and general discussion, which also has sub forum called chatter for less serious general discussion. On the 10th May 2007, the number of registered users climbed above the 200,000 mark. A typical Internet forum discussion, with common elements such as quotes and spoiler brackets A page from a forum showcasing emoticons and Internet slang An Internet forum is a web application for holding discussions and posting user generated content. ... RAM (Random Access Memory) Look up computing in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... In telecommunication, Telephony encompasses the general use of equipment to provide voice communication over distances. ... This article needs a complete rewrite for the reasons listed on the talk page. ... For other uses, see Politics (disambiguation). ...

The forums are powered by six front end HTML servers and a number of MySQL database servers.^[3] The forums utilise the vBulletin software. HTML, an initialism of Hypertext Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for web pages. ... In information technology, a server is an application or device that performs services for connected clients as part of a client-server architecture. ... MySQL (pronounced (IPA) , my S-Q-L[1]) is a multithreaded, multi-user SQL database management system (DBMS)[2] which has, according to MySQL AB, more than 10 million installations. ... vBulletin (abbreviated as vB) is a commercial Internet forum package produced by Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd. ...

During Big Brother over 40,000 posts per day can be added to the forums - currently around 160,000 posts are made each week ^[4]. The peak usage in January 2007 was a new record of over 17,000 concurrent online users in the aftermath of Jade Goody's eviction. ^[5] In July 2007, The Times reported on the number of customers who had registered on the forums to express their concerns and negative aspects of the Virgin Media cable service.^[6] Jade Cerisa Lorraine Goody[2] (born 5 June 1981) is a British reality television celebrity, who became famous after appearing on the Channel 4 reality show Big Brother in 2002 when she was 21 years old. ... The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom (and the Kingdom of Great Britain before the United Kingdom existed) since 1788 when it was known as The Daily Universal Register. ... Virgin Media Inc. ...

Representatives of several major companies including Top Up TV, Joost, Sky^[7] and Goodmans are registered members that post on the forum. Top Up TV is a pay TV service provided in the United Kingdom. ... Joost (IPA pronunciation: [1] jew-st) is a system for distributing TV shows and other forms of video over the Web using peer-to-peer TV technology, created by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis (founders of Skype and Kazaa). ... British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB — formerly two companies, Sky Television and BSB) is a company that operates Sky Digital, a subscription television service in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. ... Goodmans Industries is an electronics retailing company which is part of Alba PLC. Goodmans Industries Ltd markets a wide range of entertainment products including Digital TVs, LCD TVs and Digital Set Top Boxes, Plasma TV, Home Cinema TV Systems and both Home and Portable DVD Players and Recorders. ...

TV Guide

As of Friday November 17, 2006 the Digital Spy website has a TV Guide powered by DigiGuide. 17 November is also the name of a Marxist group in Greece, coinciding with the anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic uprising. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... DigiGuide is a popular television listings programme for home computers, produced by GypsyMedia Limited. ...

DS:BB

Digital Spy:Big Brother, or more popularly abbreviated, DS:BB, brings the latest news stories, and during the series records Live Updates, in which forum members record up-to-the-minute updates from the live streaming. The site also, during the series, has columns written by journalists such as Jenni Trent Hughes as well as ex-Big Brother housemates. DS:BB won a WebUser gold award for its Big Brother coverage.^[8] Jenni Trent Hughes is an American life strategist, coach and agony aunt, who specialises in relationships and family issues. ... Web User is a fortnightly magazine published in the UK covering Internet news and views. ...

Popularity

On 17 January 2007, the site logged 3.93 million page impressions, a figure that then rose to a new best of 4.07 million page impressions - some 180,000 unique visitors - on 18 January 2007. The previous record was 3 million impressions, set as the seventh series of Big Brother began in May 2006. ^[9] is the 17th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 18th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... May 2006 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → May 1, 2006 (Monday) Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association outraged Vatican by planning to ordain another bishop, Liu Xinhong in Anhui Province. ...

References

attitude is an award winning British gay lifestyle magazine distributed worldwide. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 18th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 189th day of the year (190th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• Digital Spy
• Digital Spy Forums