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02/06/08

Hidden iPhone site uncovered. Can somebody teach Telefonica some web publishing?

by Josep M. Ganyet

Posted in Apple, Blogosphere, Why didn't I think of that? | Tweet This Post

We’ve all uploaded a test web site for a customer to review in a hidden directory. More so, we’ve all created the infamous index2.html.

But I bet that if you were developing a site for the launching of the iPhone in Spain, a gadget that gets a huge media and hackers attention, you’d be extra cautious about uploading any testing site, especially if they were no official news about the Telefonica-Apple deal.

Well, you probably understand it. Telefonica, the 4th largest telecom in the world, don’t!

ErneX, a colleague of mine at WeAreMortensen.com didn’t even have to use his hacking skills. He just tried a few URLs until iphone.movistar.es/index2.html (not active anymore) hit jackpot. Obviously he twittered it.

The result? After one hour more than 24.000 people registered in the microsite and the news got featured in es.appleblog.com from there to engadget.es then engadget.com and from there to all weblogs and newspapers.

How many web publishing courses can you attend for Telefonica’s last year 8.906 Milion € benefits?

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