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August 20, 2008, 3 photos swept the global forum, a "common" migrant sister, with a smile to conquer netizens, in the Google rankings, the IPhone girl has ranked 7th, become the fastest rising hot word.

Hundreds of domestic media reported the incident, although everyone knows that the iphone and even Apple and Foxconn may gain commercial benefits.

Unexpectedly, due to the climax of the incident, a woman surnamed Yang claimed to be the cousin of the iphone girl, and to the media forwarded the iphone girl SMS, said "just want to do ordinary people", declined to interview, and hope that netizens stop human flesh search.

Although the company said no longer pursue this matter, the IPhone girl is still unwilling to have any contact with the outside world, this "beautiful misunderstanding", the outcome is somewhat abrupt, but at least on the surface, everything is calm. However, the auction reporter through in-depth investigation, found that the iphone girl incident, far more complex than people see.

Pushing Hands Arnold Kim

Arnold Kim is a graduate of engineering science and Applied mathematics from Northwestern University and has obtained a master's degree in Applied mathematics from the University of Washington and a Ph. D. in computer Engineering and network technology. Arnold Kim founded MacRumors.com in 2000 and served as senior editor. He has been living on the outskirts of Virginia State Richmond, an associate professor at the University of California Merced (UC Merced) before running macrumors.com full-time. The above information is learned by Arnold Kim's personal website.

Post person is Apple Forum Webmaster

The earliest news about Iphonegirl, published in www.MacRumors.com (Apple product Enthusiasts ' forum), was posted by Markm49uk, an Englishman who claimed to be British, just bought a new iphone and found 3 pictures of Asian girls, which he thought was interesting.

Markm49uk not British.

This is an era of longing for adventure, Markm49uk's post was quickly hyped. However, soon some netizens questioned, Markm49uk claiming to have never been to the United States, but the picture shows the operator is clearly at&t, and I-phone in the UK's exclusive partner is O2, an Englishman, how to buy the American iphone?

August 27, the reporter login www.MacRumors.com, found Markm49uk from March 13 in the site registered, a total of only 19 posts, in addition, the reporter through the IP query found that the Markm49uk from the United States, rather than the United Kingdom. Markm49uk seemed to want people to think he was British, and the end of his registered name was "UK".

Markm49uk is MacRumors webmaster

August 28, the reporter registered in the Forum ID, and to Markm49uk sent a message in the station, the letter said "I know the iphone girl Some of the latest news, please contact me," the reporter left MSN and e-mail. On the August 29, Markm49uk returned an email with virtually no content, but he may have overlooked the fact that the signature of the message was set automatically, and that if not deliberately modified, it would reveal his true message. Markm49uk the signature displayed in the message is Arnoldkim. This arnoldkim is the owner and webmaster of the www.MacRumors.com website. Register "Vest" to render the forum atmosphere, this is the webmaster often use the means.

Www.MacRumors.com Web site is dedicated to the spread of Apple's gossip, rumors and facts of the site, its webmaster exclusive encounter with the iphone girl, it is difficult to believe that is a coincidence.

IPhone Girl make money for MacRumors?

Www.MacRumors.com is famous in the US, a famous tech blog site, supposedly macrumors "know more about Apple than Apple's management," and MacRumors ranked second in America's 25 most valuable blogs. This is one of the most popular technology sites.

On July 21 this year, the New York Times interviewed Arnoldkim, who said his people around him often asked: "How does this stuff make money?" He replied: "The secret of making money is to increase the amount of traffic." On the Internet, the amount of traffic equals strength, and strength equals money. ”

MacRumors is a third party website?

Claiming to be the first in the country to engage in "Third-party Web site" Business Rae said, "Third-party Web Site" is currently the beginning of the new marketing tools, 2006, the business model is relatively mature. In a sense, the Www.MacRumors.com website is engaged in a similar business.

Kim's website may have had nothing to do with Apple at first, creating a community of Apple fans from a third-party perspective, attracting Apple fans to communicate and communicate. In general, big companies want to build online communities for their users, but they do not want to see too much negative speech, if the big companies take control of the speech of the operation, may affect their own credibility, without control, the result may be worse. Therefore, a Third-party Web site is a good solution. MacRumors has been built for 8 years, and even many of Apple's middle tier have come to ask Kim for some questions about Apple's strategy and products, but Apple has not given macrumors any advertising.

Facing questioning Arnold Kim chooses to be silent

In Markm49uk issued Iphonegirl message of the original post, there are a lot of foreign netizens thread questioned the true and false, but Markm49uk has not been replies.

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"Human flesh search" does not search the iphone girl

For Chinese netizens, the iPhone girl such hype means is not new.

Yang Xiuyu, the net name "Li two demolition Four", was Phoenix satellite TV as 2005 the third largest "pushing hands", "push hands" of the occupation is to create news on the Internet, through the attention to attract netizens to help enterprises to promote. "Pin Change Villa" is Yang Xiuyu's "masterpiece" one.

In an interview with reporters, he said from the "Angel sister", to "Sister Furong," No one is not a product of planning and promotion, the reason to put the unexpected label, because today's netizens need miracles, through miracles to comfort their daily life boring.

"On the Internet, the more accidental, the more people believe that is true." "Yang Xiuyu says the iphone girl has one of the biggest vulnerabilities that anyone can find in the context of today's widespread use of human flesh search. If the iphone girl from a company's planning, then she should not be an ordinary workshop quality inspection workers, but a fringe of showbiz, at least after repeated selection. She needs to have a perfect smile, good-looking, and a worker's uniform doesn't affect the lens. In this way, she can easily be "human search" to find out the real identity.

However, the IPhone girl "just want to do ordinary people" in the name, coupled with the voice of the relevant companies, so that "human search engine" lost the "interesting" this basic motivation.

Yang Xiuyu very familiar with the power of human flesh search, he said: "Today, the pin for Villa-style story, certainly not workable." "He rented a unit in a residential building, specializing in internet-pushing business, and he said in a vague way that the annual income is close to millions." Auction reporter Mountain 祎 hui

-Journalist Notes

Unnecessary impetuous

Is the IPhone girl a beautiful misunderstanding or a successful business plan? It is understandable that there is a different understanding before the facts are fully understood. However, Vue media in turn hype, frequently issued "This is such a lovely smile," such as emotion, even from the iphone, unexpectedly read the meaning of the world of Datong. It seems a bit too much.

Life needs the discovery of beauty, credulity, perhaps one of the costs. But do not be too sensitive, do not care too much about other people's evaluation. Hear two not sound, immediately give each other put on "prejudice", "discrimination", "hostility" of the hat, and heard two praise, immediately on the spirits, think the world really has datong.

If we can use the 50% for the thrill and the narcissism of the truth of the pursuit of truth, then we will pay a lot less, and only then, we can really count into a rational civilization