Because it is a beta version, there are still many things worth discussing about the rules, which need to be discovered and solved one by one in the next run.

In Facebook, since Zuckerberg and below, most of them are fun-loving ages, since I heard Ahn Junhyuk's idea of making maps into games, several engineers who like to play games have formed a group under Zuckerberg's leadership, which is responsible for the function development and operation and maintenance of Jmap.

He has always believed that professional things should be done by professionals, and the reason why engineers like Facebook accepted him as CEO is because he not only made a commitment, but also did it in action.

In the past few months, in addition to the strategic approach and business model, Ahn Junhyuk has not adjusted the basic structure of Facebook, and has never interfered indiscriminately in various departments in order to consolidate power.

Put the right talent in the right position and give him the right power to play.

Don't underestimate these three "suitable", it not only requires a leader to have the vision to find talents, but also to have the tolerance to be willing to share the power in his hands, in fact, as long as any leader can do this, then he can be called wise and powerful, and many companies in the outside world are quite optimistic about An Junhyuk. And because of this.

Few companies are willing to hire a manager who likes drastic reforms, the board of directors hires managers in order to "cure" the company, it is the same as treating people, conservative treatment is slow, but it can protect people's health to the greatest extent, and once surgery is used, it is basically a gamble on life, either life or death.

How many times can a person gamble?

In fact, the principles of the world are all the same. It's like Zuckerberg and a couple of engineers making jokes about Ahn Joon-hyuk in the game. This was originally just a prank that they thought was fun, but when it came to users, they inadvertently gained the favor of many users.

"I saw that kid on TV news. A Facebook user who has just opened Jmap said with great interest while chatting with a friend. "Wearing glasses. Looks like a successful person. I had been worried that he was not making Facebook interesting at all, but now it seems that this concern is unnecessary. ”

Some users even left messages on Ahn Joon-hyuk's Facebook page: "Hi. Ann, they're all cute for anything, only you are hateful, you haven't paid them for a few months?"

"Maybe Ann forced them to work overtime, God, look at this map, every line smells of hurry, I can't bear to open it. ”

"Is this map a game, or is it a real map?Ann, what the hell do you want to do?"

Although there are many questions, after the doubts, many people are eager to try.

Some opponents of Facebook have long been sarcastic that Facebook is teaching this generation of young people to be worse and worse, that they are rebellious, that they are iconoclastic, that they don't need dogma to tell them what they can and can't do, that they like everything that seems "fun".

As a result, the iconoclastic Facebook was welcomed by them, and Zuckerberg and others ridiculed Ahn Jun-hyuk and got their favor, so they began to become interested in the equally unconventional Jmap.

Contrary to the user's enthusiasm and gearing up, the media was silent in the following time.

When Jmap was launched and the so-called "guide dog" operation began, some media people who have studied IT deeply discovered the core mode of this map - crowdsourcing!

A model similar to Wikipedia, in the past 5 years of Wikipedia's development, its crowdsourcing model has made it rapidly grow into the largest electronic encyclopedia in the world today, and also has the most systematic database of human civilization in the world.

If this huge project had been done by a single company, it would have been going on for many years, but when Wikimedia opened it to the public based on the WIKI Hypertext License, a miracle was born.

With such a miracle in the past, one has to wonder - is Jmap the second miracle?

No one knew what was going on, and countless phone calls were made to Facebook, but Facebook didn't have time to pay attention to the media's requests for interviews.

On the first day of trial operation, because of the lack of experience, Zuckerberg and others forgot to remind the new feature to go online, but this was solved in the afternoon of the same day, and then, the user has grown to 30 million Facebook, and a jigsaw puzzle game slowly kicked off!

It wasn't until the fifth day of JMAP's launch that Ahn Joon-hyuk sent a notice to the media that had been waiting for him for a long time, and held a press conference.

In the past five days, after a preliminary understanding of the rules, Jmap has successively uploaded users to upload real geographical environment data near their homes, schools or companies, such as the length and width of roads, what buildings are nearby, what public facilities are available, and their approximate footprint. The JMAP development team also imported the vector model components developed day and night in these five days.

This component will provide a simple model, which is convenient for users to modify the vector layer and POI layer of the map according to the measured data, guide dog users can use them to change the route and building distribution, and ordinary users also have the same power, the difference is that if the area layer to be modified by ordinary users already has guide dog users, then the Jmap system will send the modification request of ordinary users to guide dog users, and then negotiated by both parties.

Facebook and Jmap are just a bridge between the two sides.

For five days, near Stanford University in Palo Alto. The initial map correction has been completed, and the energetic university students have shown incredible enthusiasm to enter the distribution of buildings, roads, etc. in the university into Jmap!

This matter has attracted the attention of many people, and the TV media has also intervened.

"It's a fun map, you know, and no one knows what Stanford has better than we do. A college student who was randomly interviewed by a CBS reporter shrugged his shoulders at the camera. "I've lived here for two years. The place of activity is at least the average campus area, and I know which building is used for what the road, which road will lead to where, and which place is the easiest to see the wonderful little show at night ("Ahem!") The reporter coughed and interfered...... All right. What I'm going to say is. No one knows Stanford better than the people of Stanford. Ann's idea is fantastic, can you imagine the sense of accomplishment that feels like drawing a map of a familiar place and getting it recognized and complimented by others?"

He gave a thumbs up. Squeezing his eyes: "It's great! And this is also a contribution, the school is bigger, the function of the classroom is often adjusted, and the school can't always update the roadmap according to the actual situation, there are always many new students who get lost here every year, but now, we have solved this embarrassment for them, and it feels very comfortable to see their Facebook message thanks." ”

A freshman who was interviewed, after hearing the reporter's question, nodded and said: "Yes, I have used it, thanks to the blessings of those seniors, I can now know a lot of secrets of Stanford through the map, this is like ......" The boy thought for a while, and then smiled: "It's like the living point map in Harry Potter, you know the way, you don't know the way, it's all on it, as long as you look for it with your heart, whether it's learning or playing, the routes provided by the seniors can save you more time!"

After the video of the interview was broadcast, more of the impact was not known for the time being, but Jmap was first protested by some parent-teacher associations, who after watching the video, they visited Jmap's Stanford map, and actually found a "truancy guide" on it, which provided detailed remote routes and monitoring points and dead spots on the Stanford campus.

Leaving aside such surprises, in the first week of Jmap's opening, everything was still in its infancy, and there was no certainty about what the future would hold, but the idea of using crowdsourcing to build a map database, and such a successful start, was enough to attract the media to flock to it.

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At the end of January, Palo Alto was on a cloudy day, and the parking lot of the Four Seasons Hotel was filled with cars bearing the logos of various news companies.

Unlike the previous press conference, which was only held in a random office building rented by the company, this time Facebook used its budget to rent a large exhibition hall at the Four Seasons Hotel with a huge video wall. Walking into the spacious exhibition hall, the video wall behind the press deck, and the slightly smaller large screens on the left and right sides are showing a demonstration of Facebook's LOGO, as well as a female voice reminding reporters to follow the number plate to find seats and maintain order.

John, who never misses Facebook news, was here this time on behalf of the San Francisco Chronicle, and given his strong support, Facebook placed him at the top of the list, sitting with representatives of other big media outlets.

John was a little cramped, after all, his newspaper office was now in decline, far inferior to his peers, so he didn't talk to anyone, just found a seat and sat down, and began to silently pack his things.

However, he didn't want to talk, and people started talking to him: "Hey, meet me, I'm Jonathan from the Wall Street Journal." ”

A neighbor reached out a hand, and John turned his head to look, it was a middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes, who looked very stylish, and he reluctantly pulled the corners of his mouth: "Hello, I'm ...... from the San Francisco Chronicle."

Before he could finish speaking, Jonathan interjected and laughed: "You are John, I know you, man, who has reported Ahn Junhyuk's famous quote, who doesn't know about you?"

John tugged at the corners of his mouth in embarrassment, he didn't think it was a good thing, his reputation was tiring, not to mention that his fame was just a good luck.

But Jonathan obviously didn't think so, and seeing that John didn't mean to talk much, Jonathan said, "Man, why didn't you take the initiative to seize that opportunity? If I were you, after that press conference." I'm going to try to have a good relationship with Ahn Jun Hyuk, how can I have only one exclusive interview? Look at the fact that Facebook is under Ahn Jun Hyuk's leadership, there is another topic, if you have a personal relationship with him, you can get the news earlier than others, think about it, how much it will help your career!"

Hearing him say this, John was a little impatient, even though he had been working for a long time. But in reality John still falls into the "naïve" category. He never thought that personal relationships should be substituted for work, that was a betrayal of feelings.

However, the other party also seemed to be kind-hearted, so naturally he didn't speak ill of him, and he smiled: "Yes." It's a pity I don't like that kind of thing. ”

"Alright!" Jonathan spread his hands. I didn't talk about this topic anymore, but asked, "What amazing remarks did Ahn Junhyuk make at this press conference?" Do you notice what kind of person he is?"

What kind of person is Ahn Joon-hyuk?

The question was too broad for John to answer, he shook his head, and was about to say that he hadn't thought about it, when a voice from the back of the two interjected: "He's a very attractive man." ”

In the eyes of white people, it is difficult for Asians to tell how old they are, whether they are beautiful or ugly, only to know that Lu Dao is a man with glasses, seeing them turn around, the other party smiled cheerfully and stretched out his hand: "Hello, I am Park Jinyu from South Korea, currently a part-time KBS special correspondent, and my colleague August is next to me." ”

In journalism, even if they are far away from each other, the two of them know more or less about some of the major television stations in other countries, and KBS is one of the three major television stations in South Korea. They politely shook hands with Park Jinwoo and Auguste, and John first asked curiously, "This ...... Uh, Mr. Park, you guys got a Facebook notification as well?"

Facebook in the United States, what is KBS doing to inform South Korea?

"Nope. Park Jinyu smiled and shook his head, "We came here on our own initiative, Ahn is very legendary in our country, and I am preparing for a third interview with him." ”

"The third time?"

"Yes. Park Jinyu nodded, in fact, he was indeed coincidental at this press conference, because just two days ago, J.H Entertainment had completed negotiations with InterPark, and the two sides formally signed an agreement for J.H Entertainment to use cash payment to buy 33% of its shares in Gmarket from InterPark, with a total value of $250 million.

After the signing of the agreement, J.H Entertainment, including more than 10% of J.H Holdings' revenue in the secondary market and 10% of its purchase from Oaktree Capital, will have absolute control over Korea's largest online sales platform due to the fact that it holds more than 51% of Gmarket's shares. Nasdaq has announced that Gmarket will be forced to delist due to the excessive proportion of shares held by a single shareholder, and now Gmarket's stock has plummeted, and the one-month offer period has not ended, and J.H Entertainment has not released news that the acquisition will be ended.

According to the analysis of some people in China, Ahn Junhyuk should be ready to absolutely control Gmarket, in that case, it will have more than 67% of the shareholding ratio (two-thirds of the votes), and now many people are waiting for specific news, especially retail investors who hold Gmarket shares, and urgently need J.H Entertainment to indicate whether to continue to acquire, which is related to whether the shares in their hands will become waste paper, or how much they can recover some losses.

In view of the pleasant cooperative relationship some time ago, KBS specially brought in Park Jinwoo, who had conducted two interviews with Ahn Joon-hyuk, to find out Ahn Joon-hyuk's attitude, and if he could dig out his ideas from Ahn Jun-hyuk's mouth earlier than other TV stations, it would obviously be extremely beneficial to improve KBS's news image.

Saying that, Park Jinyu smiled a little embarrassedly and asked the two for advice: "Speaking of which, I still don't understand why Mr. An's hosting of the map product developed by Facebook has caused such a big repercussion in your country?"

"Because it's a new concept, crowdsourced to make a map database, many of us think that maybe Jmap will be the next Wikipedia...... You may not understand this significance, but you should understand that Wikipedia has become the largest electronic encyclopedia in the world, with more than 20 million entries on all aspects of human geography and tens of millions of people reading it every day. If Jmap is like it......"

As he spoke, Jonathan shook his head with a sigh.

Although he didn't finish speaking, Park Jinwoo already understood, he also used Wikipedia, and tens of millions of people visit the whole world every day, what is that concept?

That means that the wiki has a preliminary grasp of the knowledge base of human beings, which is reflected in social status, which is unimaginably heavy!

Park Jinwoo gasped, seeing that he seemed to be frightened. John hurriedly said: "This is just an optimistic estimate. In fact, no one has tried to make a map database with crowdsourcing before, and it is not as simple as the hypertext protocol. Wikipedia only requires users to enter the knowledge from the book, and it can be done in batches. Maps are a lot more troublesome in this regard. Of course. There must be more questions that we can't think of for the time being, and it's hard to say how exactly. ”

Park Jinyu breathed a sigh of relief.

No matter how much you respect Ahn Joon-hyuk. Suddenly hearing that one of his map products would be so terrifying, Park Jinyu also felt that it was too unrealistic, and there was an illusory sense of fear, and only then did he feel a little steady.

Afterwards, the three of them got together and chatted, among the three, Park Jinyu and John have been in private contact with Ahn Junhyuk, and they know him a little bit, and there is a bit of a topic in this regard, while Jonathan mostly acts as an audience member and occasionally asks a question.

After a while, the buzzing discussion in their ears suddenly quieted, and the three of them raised their heads, crossed the two rows of people in front of them, and saw that after the originally empty press table, Ahn Jun Hyuk was already standing there, and the press conference began.

"Thank you for joining us today, and my friends from the news media have been absent for nearly four months. Today's Ahn Jun Hyuk, still like the past few times, wears a pair of rimless glasses, and the whole person looks polite, he supports the edge of the stage with both hands, and smiles at the reporters sitting below:" In the past 4 months, thank you for your attention to Facebook, it is under your reports, Facebook has grown tremendously, when I first came, it was a small website with only a few million people, but today, it has exceeded 30 million users, there are 30 million people living in this virtual community, it is becoming one of the most powerful websites in the United States with your attention, with the support of lovely users! And I believe that this growth rate will get faster and faster, and eventually you will see that it will meet Zuckerberg's and my expectations and impact hundreds of millions of people, hundreds of millions of people who will grow and live in an open and free environment on Facebook, and make it a spatially unbounded country!"

If Ahn Joon-hyuk had said this half a year ago, it would only make people laugh at his arrogance. But now, half a year later, he used this passage as his opening remark, and he won bursts of applause.

No one doubted that he couldn't do it, and in less than four months, Facebook had gone from a college student dating site to a social giant under his leadership, second only to Myspace with 60 million users.

It was he who saved Facebook from the brink of sale, it was he who supported and pushed for Facebook to be fully open, and it was he who pushed the News Feed system to make people accept the idea of opening up their privacy in one sentence.

He said that Facebook will have hundreds of millions of users in the future, and no one will feel uncomfortable thinking that he can't do it, Facebook is carrying out a global strategy under his auspices, and its tentacles have now extended to Asia and Europe, not to mention English-speaking countries, and the Japanese version was just launched last month, and it is said that the Chinese, German, and French versions are also being produced by inviting users, and once completed, Facebook will expand faster than it is now.

Judging from the current growth trend, the number of 200 million users can be reached for most of the time.

Listening to the warm applause below, Ahn Junhyuk lifted his glasses, and when his voice was a little weaker, he smiled: "I thought I would hear boos, it seems that you still like to see me, a guy who loves to brag." ”

There was a burst of laughter from the audience.

He's making fun of some Facebook opponents that he always likes to brag.

A little joke, Ahn Junhyuk adjusted the microphone hanging on his cheek, picked up a folding whip from the press table, the bright lights in the exhibition hall illuminated the stage, and the TV wall behind him silently played a simple map picture, Ahn Junhyuk took a few steps back and knocked on it with the whip: "Today is a press conference, it is a new product for Facebook, Jmap! Before introducing it, I need to talk about the original intention of why we developed this map product." ”

"I know that a lot of people say that Facebook is a dating site, and in some people's mouths, the term is derogatory, but in my eyes, Facebook is really a dating site. ”

There was a sudden buzz from the audience, and many reporters looked at him in surprise.

This statement is at odds with Facebook's usual official narrative that the "dating site" is maliciously denigrating people for offering sexual services on Facebook — in fact, looking for friends — a term that Facebook has always left out so as not to bias potential users.

Ahn Jun Hyuk turned a blind eye to the momentary chaos in the audience, and just smiled: "We have been providing a platform for people to find friends, and from this point of view, there is nothing wrong with 'dating sites'." But our goal is not just to make people find friends, we are building a community, a community where everyone can live together, without time and space. ”

"This is the ultimate form of our ideals, and it's just a prototype, but we've been working on it, and the Jmap we're going to talk about today is the product we've developed for that ultimate goal. ”

On the huge video wall, with the tap of the whip, the rudimentary map began to slowly change, and his voice rang out at the same time.

"A long time ago, when the whole earth was barren and the forest food was barren during the glacial period, our ancestors walked out of the forest and established a foothold in the plains, building a human society little by little. Tribes appeared, city-states appeared, states appeared...... The territory of mankind is getting bigger and bigger, the once dangerous beasts can no longer wantonly plunder human life, those terrible, strong, cunning animals and plants, succumb to the feet of humans, and humans become the masters of the earth. Is all this the work of some hero, or is it the work of a certain leader?"

The video wall was originally just a map of a simple satellite basemap, and it began to draw lines representing roads and buildings little by little, sometimes they deviated a little, and then they were changed again, and the lines evolved.

After looking at it for a while, John suddenly found that it seemed to be the perfect history of Jmap during this time, and that the lines, as well as the traces of errors, omissions, and changes, were completed by the cooperation of many users.

The others also seemed to notice it, their eyes widened, watching those lines keep moving forward, backward, and twisting and turning, sometimes a small area, going through dozens of modifications, and they listened to Ahn Jun Hyuk suddenly raise his voice: "None of them!"

"It was the result of the efforts of all human beings, who fought the harsh environment of the plains because of their solidarity and cooperation. By solidarity and cooperation, humanity has overcome lions, tigers, and jackals, which are far stronger than our bodies. Because of unity and cooperation, human beings have established tribes and countries, and finally mastered the entire world!"

In his words, the map was finally perfected, the blank areas were filled in, and names began to appear on the roads and buildings, and a map that was not inferior to Google Maps compared to the original rudimentary was completed.

I don't know how many people participated, and I don't know how many people revised and discussed those invisible swimming lines, and a faint shock emerged in people's hearts. (To be continued......)