Hollywood Hunter

The progress of the cooperation negotiations between Igret and the New York Times Group, the company's recent response to a series of prosecutions, the IE browser free plan, the buy-out and subscription plan of the World Wide Web infrastructure software, and the development of key startups supported by the venture capital department Overview, etc.

Although he did not go to San Francisco, Simon stayed in the villa study all day on Saturday to discuss various matters with Silicon Valley.

Simon has been trying to avoid becoming a micro-manager as much as possible, but with the increasing size of the Igret company, there are more and more things that require him to participate in the decision.It is not a distrust of management, but the Internet as an absolute emerging industry, there is no precedent to be compared, once the wrong direction in the early stages of development, it is more difficult to reverse.

For example, this cooperation with the New York Times Group.

Both Jeff Bezos and Carol Bartz, who is not in charge of the web portal department, said that they should refuse to join the New York Times Group’s content resources in the field of news information where the company can already provide content for users. The two believe that Doing so may result in the company’s media voice in the Internet field being diverted by the New York Times Group.

To a large extent, the two are actually right.

Introducing the New York Times Group's news content and even directing traffic to the other party's professional news sites will inevitably lead many users to leave the Igritt portal for more professional news.On the surface, this is very unfavorable for Igrid Portal to control the Internet media wind direction.

However, if I refuse to cooperate, can Igrid really hold the position for a long time?

Others do not say, just compare the staff size of the news and information team. The number of employees of the Igret portal news and information department is about 500 people, and even one third of the 1600 employees of the New York Times.

The backwardness of the paper media group in the field of Internet is by no means their ability to produce content. The key is also that traditional media must protect their vested interests.

Once the power of paper media is fully liberalized and digitalized, the Igrid portal cannot compete with the profound traditional media in terms of news and information.

Of course, unless faced with the critical moment of life and death, otherwise the paper media is unlikely to be fully digitalized for a long time in the future.However, even if it is only part of the effort, if Igrid Portal refuses to cooperate with it, it will only push a large amount of content resources from traditional paper media to the competitors, which may eventually lead to competitors becoming bigger.

The most important point, Simon has repeatedly emphasized from the beginning of the development of Igret, that the portal is not the core of Igret.

In the field of online business, Igerett needs to guard only three things at all costs: search engines, social networks, and e-commerce.

Several executives in the past may not understand that the rapid growth of the search engine business is entirely visible to the eye as the Internet continues to gain popularity and users are more skilled at surfing the Internet.After all, after getting familiar with the Internet, users will only be more and more inclined to bypass the recommendation of the portal and directly find the content they are interested in.

As for social networks.

When everyone is concentrated in a social circle, it is basically impossible to replace another online social environment, so it is difficult for latecomers to shake a social network that has formed a sufficient scale.

Having mastered search engines and social networks, it is the future that will truly master the content interface of the Internet.

At that time, through these two invisible webs, what Igrid wants users to see, they can only see.Your news content is more professional and richer. If it can't appear in search engines and social networks, or if it is deliberately hidden in the most obscure corners, then everything is just in vain.

This is the truly indestructible right to speak!

Relatively speaking, it is much easier to copy portals.

If at this stage the Internet is still crucial in the era of Internet 1.0, Igret will push a lot of content resources to competitors.

On the contrary, liberalizing the acceptance of content resources will also largely result in the Matthew effect of the stronger.

Not only that, the digital content of traditional media seems to have gained more influence in this process, but many paper media want to obtain traffic import from the Igrid portal, whether active or passive, they must follow the Igrid portal. Rules.

The obvious reason is that the content of the Westeros system is bound to be more easily recommended. Articles attacking the Westeros system must be suppressed. This potential impact will be further transmitted to traditional paper media platforms, as long as a newspaper In cooperation with the Igrid portal, even if you just want to publish an article on the Westeros system on the paper media platform, you must also consider whether this will affect the cooperation between the two parties in the Internet field.

Therefore, the introduction of the content of the New York Times Group, and even cooperation with more other paper media companies, will not affect the Internet media influence of Igret, but will increase this right to speak.

In addition to content cooperation, the New York Times Group also proposed to invest in the online radio website Broadcast, which is invested by Eaglet, and obtained a patent authorization for online video live broadcast technology.

Simon all agreed.

The online radio website Broadcast in memory is a typical example of the most unsuccessful enterprise in the Internet 1.0 era. Yahoo spent billions of dollars to acquire this website in the form of a stock swap, and finally only got a mess.

Since similar projects have also started, Simon does not want to repeat the same mistakes.

Therefore, in the process of project planning, Simon has adopted the'Himalaya Network' model in memory. In addition to introducing traditional radio resources, the new Broadcast focuses more on the development of online movie review content such as personal radio stations, audio books, online music, educational courses, etc. .

Compared with the immediacy of traditional radio stations, the broadcasts invested by Eaglet will save a lot of fixed audio resources.

Simon even considered that when launching next year, Broadcast can be used directly as a content cooperation platform for this hardware player.

It is unrealistic to want to lobby large record companies to provide music resources to the Internet in the short term.However, in addition to music, the rich audio books, educational courses and other audio resources provided by Broadcast can also promote the promotion of digital music players.

Since this broadcast is no longer the other broadcast, Simon shared this site with the New York Times Group, Simon is actually a bit reluctant.

Only considering that a large amount of paper media content owned by the New York Times Group can be converted into audio resources, Simon agreed, but at most only agreed to give each other 15% of the shares, and the offer price was 30 million US dollars, so the Broadcast website valuation reached 200 million US dollars.

By comparison, when the project was launched last year, Eaglet acquired an 80% stake in the Broadcast website for just $10 million.Of course, the additional advertising resources and traffic import value given by Igret is not comparable to the 10 million US dollars.

The other online video live broadcast technology is mainly because the recent London girl live broadcast made the public aware of the possibility of the Internet replacing the TV industry.

Traditional paper media has always expected to enter the TV industry, but it has been unable to make it through the long-term restriction of the “cross-media ownership ban”. The New York Times Group saw the possibility of directly crossing the TV platform to the Internet video media, so it wanted to occupy the pit in advance.

In addition to this demonstration live broadcast, Igrid has no plans to create a dedicated video website or live broadcast website in the short term, and will only open a small number of tests like the trailer for the Igrid portal movie section*.

At this stage, most users' network bandwidth and hardware devices cannot meet the process of watching online videos, and the storage and bandwidth consumption of video websites is too large. Setting up a professional website can not provide users with the best video experience and cost very expensive.So since the New York Times Group wants it, take it away.

I personally finalized the cooperation with the New York Times Group, and the IE browser free plan and the purchase and subscribe plan of the World Wide Web basic tool software were also thoroughly determined in today's discussion.

Regarding the free plan of IE browser, after completing the communication with pre-installed hardware manufacturers and telecom operators, IE will officially announce the free before about May.

Another plan for the sales model of Web-based basic tool software from buyout to subscription was proposed by Carol Bartz. In fact, this matter was discussed just after the birth of several basic software. Simon was inclined to buy it at one time. The main reason is that the software sales environment at that time was decided. After all, Microsoft’s Windows and Oracle database software were all bought out at one time.

In the past few years, Carol Bartz has reiterated this matter and expressed the hope that the buyout will be turned to subscriptions, so as to obtain a more durable and stable income.

The Internet has entered an explosive period, and the speed of the update of the World Wide Web technology is also called flying blocks.

Many users purchase software versions that may be lagging in just one year. Timely updates will undoubtedly require an additional costly expense. Without updating, many new World Wide Web technologies will not be available.From the perspective of Igreat, a software developer, constantly promoting users to purchase new versions of software is undoubtedly the best option for maximizing benefits, but everyone is not stupid. It is too easy to hate.

Therefore, at this stage, there have been signs of rampant piracy of Ygritte series of basic tool software.

After buying a set of genuine software, many small start-up companies quietly turned to piracy because they did not want to pay for subsequent updates.Even if Igrid officially pursues it, I can count the old version of the original software, which unconsciously caused Igrid to suffer a lot of losses.

Therefore, switching from buying out to subscribing can not only ensure that users have the latest software at any time, but also avoid one-time expensive expenses.At this stage of the Internet speed, it can basically support online real-time update of software.For Igret, this may lead to a significant decline in the short-term sales of the software division, but it will bring more lasting long-term stable income, and at the same time, through subscription user registration can also solve the problem of piracy to the greatest extent.

Until five o'clock in the afternoon, Janet came to the study room, and Simon was still discussing the upcoming Happy Farm with the head of the online game department of Igret.

Just nodded with Simon, Janet sent A girl who was walking beside to organize a thick stack of materials, and picked up a copy of her own. This is a website named 33list suing Igret Advertising Alliance Litigation materials planned for alleged monopoly.

Just looking at the name 33list, Janet couldn't help but sneer.

Obviously follow the 58list.

Throw it away and pick up another one, this is an IE browser plug-in development studio sued Igerite company to block the development of the homepage plug-in.

Gee.

Change IE homepage.

Such an anti-human plug-in simply wants to go to heaven!

Throw it away again, rummaging through it a few times, and finally see a relatively "reliable" lawsuit. An Internet user in New York State who is a lawyer is questioning Igrid's accurate advertising push for allegedly infringing his privacy, so Initiated a class action lawsuit with some other users.

With this information selected, Janet leaned on the sofa in the reception area and looked at it with interest.

Simon continued to discuss with San Francisco for more than ten minutes, and finally turned off the call screen on the desk, and turned to the computer screen next to re-view the general information of "Happy Farm" that will be officially launched next Friday.

The "Happy Farm" social game project was launched in mid-January, and the development cycle of this simple small game in memory is only two weeks. Simon initially generously gave the development team a month.

It's just that after Simon gave a rough plan, the game development team that specifically moved to the Alabama farm was obviously a little free.

The development team's strong interest in its own projects and the generation of a large number of ideas need to be encouraged. In addition, the team's new plan has also made Simon very satisfied, and let them play freely.To support this game, the total number of small teams on a farm in Alabama also more than doubled unconsciously during development.

Of course, Simon also gave a deadline and must launch the game before Easter.

In two months, the brand new "Happy Farm" was finally completed.

Compared to a simple webpage with only a planting and vegetable stealing system in memory*, it is probably because of the relatively complicated stand-alone game. The development team from EA has added an additional home upgrade system and beast to this small game in the past two months. Attack settings and pet development system settings have greatly increased the interaction between different players. Not only can they steal vegetables and take care of fields with each other, but they can also help friends drive away the beasts that attack the farm, help upgrade houses and even go to strangers. Farm adventure hunting.

Simon also specifically provided some suggestions for the home upgrade system based on the "Journey 2" game I played in memory. The most important point is that the higher the level of the house must be the more beautiful, the development team asked him for the Dumei Cape Manor Shell Villa The image authorization is intended to be one of the templates for houses of up to level 12.

Simon did not agree with this request, but the team also collected a lot of beautiful patterns.

In the final game, all settings perfectly formed a complete mini ecosystem.

After the output of the farmland is sold, not only can you buy seeds, but you can also exchange for the construction materials of your home.

Drive beasts to get food for all types of pets.

Pets have also added a simple attribute system. The more excellent pets have the ability to guard the farm, the pets between friends can also breed and trade with each other.

For stealing vegetables, the game also adds a trap tool. Once the thief is arrested, he needs to pay a ransom to get out.

For the house upgrade system, if the player does not spend a penny, and every day of continuous efforts to'till', it will take at least 1 year to reach the full level of 12.

Of course, if you use the "fertilizer props" to produce output at all costs, because houses, kennels, fences and other parts have time limits for upgrading, and you can not use props to shorten, it also takes at least 1 week to reach the full level.Moreover, if you really do this, the entire process will cost 2 million US dollars to purchase fertilizer props, which is completely the cost of a real villa in reality.

As such.

The comprehensive playability has increased more than ten times compared to the simple game in Simon's memory.

In addition,'fertilizer props' are still set as the final source of income for this mini-game.

According to the theory that you must get what you want, the game sets up a check-in system. You can get a bag of fertilizer items that you can buy every day when you check in. There will be additional rewards for continuous check-in.

Of course, the increase in playability will inevitably make this small game more complicated.

Players who want to try this game need to download an installation package of about 15M, which is already the size of the IE software itself at this stage.

Fortunately, this process does not need to be completed overnight. The user enters the game interface and clicks the download license. According to the basic speed of 256K of the ADSL ADSL network, the download can be completed quietly within 10 minutes, and no special installation is required.

10 minutes is never too long.

The user finishes the simple novice guidance process in the early stage, harvests a little crop, and the game has been downloaded and installed unconsciously.

In order to support the promotion of new technologies, Ygritte's IE software team specially optimized the Ygritte software for this small game, and plans to develop a game once the game is accepted by users, even if it is not too successful More independent* support kernel.

This plan has been sent to the hands of Simon from the head of the IE department, and everyone agrees.

Like the Ygritte software that focuses more on video support, adding a game kernel that is more suitable for running web games can further strengthen the technical barriers of Igrid’s IE browser software.

Even if the browser technology has to be authorized by the federal government's antitrust restrictions in the future, other software vendors will not be able to achieve the same powerful functions as IE in the short term.

Simon’s personal opinion on this matter is that the game kernel must not drag down the overall running speed of the IE software. The user’s software experience will always be placed first. If this is not possible, he will cancel this project in the future without hesitation. .IE browser software is the core of the current Igreat company. This proposal has also been unanimously approved by several core executives such as Bezos.

After reading the information of Happy Farm, Simon wrote some of the ideas he just generated and emailed it to San Francisco, and finally turned off the computer.

He got up and stretched his body, and saw Janet leaning on the sofa and looking at the information not far away. Simon walked around the desk to the reception area, held a hand behind the sofa and kissed the woman's face, asking: " What are you looking at?"

Janet tilted her head back and shook a copy of the lawsuit in her hand, but she just thrown it away and swayed her face intimately in Simon's palm.

Simon felt Janet's dependence and said a moment later: "Or, can you and Janet live in Australia for a while?"

"Not going, to be with you here," Janet refused immediately, and said, "Or shall we go together?"

Simon can only refuse: "You know, a little busy lately."

"Well," Janet said, grabbing Simon's hand and pulling towards himself, aiming to meet the man: "Little boy, are you afraid?"

Simon couldn't help but lowered his head and pecked on the lips of the woman, said: "Afraid, I'm afraid I can't protect you."

After saying this, the couple was a little silent.

In the incident last week, Janet did not seem to have the sensitive response of a female assistant, but the woman has completely let go of Cersei Capital these days, helping Simon deal with the recent public opinion faced by the Westeros family. Stress and various other matters.

Obviously, the reaction of the woman's heart to that matter is not an understatement.

Simon knew better that Janet had too many similarities in his body, and neither of them had much fear of death.

It's just that now both of them are in bondage.

Even if you don't care about yourself, or even happily make a big noise in this world, you don't want people around you to be hurt.