Rebirth of the Internet Overlord

/*Correction: The data of music and fashion bloggers above is 500.

Another: Chapter 200 of beating gongs and drums*/

{Time: February 23-March 3, 2003}

{Location: Palo Alto, California}

The journey from San Jose back to Stanford was not far. But for such a distance, which took less than 20 minutes by bicycle, Alice felt for the first time that the time and distance were a bit long. It was [myspace], although it

It has not been publicized yet, but [myspace] has been circulating in their small circle of bloggers for several days.

I heard that many people have already registered for it, including the food blogger Lauren who sat next to her at the [myspace] promotion meeting.

Lauren is a fun-loving man who likes to travel. He has visited many cities in most countries in the Americas. He has seen all the scenery and tasted all the food. Perhaps it is because of traveling that he has become a whole person.

They all exude something called freedom.

He also took the initiative to exchange skrpe accounts with everyone, and told her that if she had any questions while using [myspace], she could just ask him.

As a result, Alice's feet moved faster. She couldn't wait to return to the dormitory to try out the functions of [myspace]. Lauren told her that [myspace] has many more functions than [blog].

…

It was only 16:00 when I returned to the dormitory, and my roommate happened to be not in the dormitory. Alice turned on the computer quickly, and after going through the long system entry time, she finally saw the familiar blue interface.

Alice, who usually opens the web page first, opened skrpe first for the first time. After entering Lauren's account number and clicking search, Lauren's skrpe account immediately appeared in the search results. Alice added him first.

, because that enthusiastic guy might need his help sometimes.

Then, Alice calmed down and returned to the topic she was concerned about - [myspace].

The homepage of [myspace] has a bright theme. Alice feels that the [myspace] page is more refreshing and freer than the personal page of [blog].

Different from the left and right columns of [Blog], the page of [MySpace] is divided into three columns.

On the left are the rankings of some popular topics, and there are even green rising and red falling arrows to mark the recent popularity of the topic.

In the middle is a content page that refreshes in real time. The first few short messages are actually the group photos they just took at the [myspace] promotion meeting.

Alice found herself in the corner of the crowd at a glance, and was also surprised by the spread speed of [myspace].

This is not the blog of a certain blogger. This is the homepage of the official website, which will have more exposure opportunities than [Blog].

The publishers of this information all come from the friend list on the right. There are three people in the friend list on the homepage I am currently visiting.

The first one is called Chen, the Oriental guy I met at the [myspace] promotion meeting. There is a beautiful girl named Kelly, who is the honorary ambassador of [myspace]. There is also one called Sax, who is the

Co-founder of Dongfang Chen.

At that time, Dongfang Chen explained that since they were the founders and honorary ambassadors, they would become everyone’s friends. Of course, he also explained that this was to show everyone the friend system of [myspace] and as an official

Promotional ambassadors come to release some important information immediately.

Alice thinks this is a good setting, and it is more humane than the official announcement from [Blog].

While thinking this, Alice clicked the registration button. Without feeling any page jump, a registration window that seemed to be floating on the page appeared in front of Alice.

This strange feeling once made Alice very curious. She tried closing the window and clicked the registration button again, and found that the registration window indeed suddenly appeared on the page.

"What kind of novel technology is this? Why does it feel different from other websites?" Alice muttered.

But out of curiosity, Alice still focused on following the instructions on the page, entered her gmail email address, entered her password twice and clicked to register.

Then it will show that the registration is successful!

A brief note on the registration page:

Welcome to join the myspace community.

This smooth feeling gave Alice an incredible sense of uncertainty! It suddenly reminded her of the feeling she had when she first registered gmail.

In January this year, Alice finally got the gmail invitation code through a friend. At that time, she couldn't wait to register a gmail email account just like today. When the registration was successful, she remembered that gmail also registered like this.

Way.

It seems that this smooth feeling is a new technology introduced by these new companies.

However, isn't this a good thing? After all, it is excruciating to always wait for the blue progress bar at the bottom of the browser to load the page.

Alice chuckled lightly, feeling that she was making too much fuss. Now she still has one important thing to do. She has to study [myspace] and publish her new music. At the same time, she has to return to [blog]

】For the fans who announced it a few days ago, I will publish a promotional blog post for the new platform.

Thinking of this, Alice quickly started working attentively.

But just when she was about to check the page carefully, the notification sound suddenly sounded in skrpe again.

That sound is the notification sound that a friend is online.

Originally, when she was busy, Alice would not pay too much attention to things other than work, but today she couldn't help but take a look.

It's Lauren!

He was actually online.

Shouldn't he be on his way back to San Francisco?

When she really thought of this, Lauren's voice call suddenly popped up. After being stunned for two seconds, Alice suddenly remembered that the person was calling her.

I quickly put on my headphones and clicked to connect, Lauren's voice came from the other end.

"Hi, Alice."

"Hi Lauren, are you back in San Francisco?"

"Oh no, I'm still in the [Red Man Project] company, using their computers to do some things. I've just been busy with publishing new articles on [myspace], and I saw you added me after I finished."

"Oh? You've posted [myspace]'s tweet so quickly."

"Yes, the update time I announced to my blog fans is exactly 16:00 today. My article has just been published, and I also posted the content on the blog."

"Hey, your efficiency is fast enough. Can I check out your tweets? I can learn about the difference between [myspace] and [blog] from your article."

"Come on, just add me as a friend and read my first update."

As she spoke, an additional link appeared in Alice's skrpe chat window.

When you click on the link, the webpage will jump directly to a new page, which is Lauren's new article - "New Experience of Using MySpace".

The official Lauren habitually inserted the background music into the page that was loaded first. The melodious Scottish bagpipe gave Alice a refreshing feeling. Along with that music, Alice also roughly recognized [myspace] and [blog].

The biggest difference.

“The biggest feature of [myspace] is its friend system. Unlike blogs, fans can become friends with bloggers like us on [myspace], which will make them feel close. Of course, you can also block someone.

Some people, such as those who always make irresponsible remarks about you..."

While Alice was looking at the new page of [myspace], Lauren's introduction was also transmitted through the earphones.

"Another feature of [myspace] is its support for various HTML tags, so we can freely add colorful wallpapers and backgrounds to its homepage to make our pages extremely vivid.

This function is definitely a powerful support for people who play music like you, because music, like food, is also colorful. When different food or music is paired with different colors, it will make visitors feel

That kind of detailed change..."

With Lauren's help, Alice quickly became familiar with using [myspace].

Compared with [Blog], getting started with [myspace] is much simpler, but due to the use of html tags, the freedom of [myspace] has been fully demonstrated.

This allowed Alice, with Lauren's help, to edit a more "appreciative" music tweet.

Music tweets are “appreciative”!

Even Alice herself found this feeling incredible.

"Wow, Alice, the rhythm of your music is so strong, and paired with this colorful background image, it makes me feel happy. I sincerely want to give you a thumbs up for this piece of music.

.”

"praise?"

"Yes, when someone likes your content, they can like your article. This is also one of the recommendation systems of [myspace]. When your article is popular enough, it can be set to be displayed on the homepage of [myspace]

Get more exposure opportunities.

This is a very good promotion system. You must know that after this [myspace] promotion meeting, a large number of people will flock to the [myspace] platform."

"Alice, are you ready to be famous?" Lauren's laughter came from the other end of the receiver.

***+***

"The number of users has increased by 3 million in one week. This is really incredible." Chen Shijun looked at the display and shouted excitedly.

But Ning Zimo, who was sitting in the reception area of ​​the office, just looked up at him with a smile, and then looked back to the [Internet Celebrity Management System].

"Don't be too excited. This growth momentum was only relatively rapid in the first three days. Didn't you find that the data in the past few days is gradually declining?" Ning Zimo poured cold water on Chen Shijun.

After the [myspace] promotion meeting of the [Red Man Plan], 800,000 new users were added for the first time, but it dropped to 500,000 the next day, and continued to decrease in the following days.

But even so, excited Chen Shijun stood up and said with a smile, "Man, this is much faster than when we only added tens of thousands of users after one month of being online."

"Yes, Ning. This time in cooperation with [Red Man Project], Jennifer's team's promotion plan really gave us a big surprise."

Big surprise?

Ning Zimo didn't think so.

[Celebrity Plan] The celebrities included in the program have user attributes that are extremely consistent with [myspace], which is why they have such outstanding results. However, of the more than 500 music and fashion bloggers, 80% have more than 10,000 fans, and 20% have more than 30,000 fans.

Fans. After excluding the 1 million overlapping fans, there are a total of 6 million fans but only 3 million have settled in [myspace].

Nearly 50% of people did not join due to various reasons, which I have to say is still a huge loss. But to say that all 6 million fans have settled in [myspace] is a bit wishful thinking.

"Man, this score should be pretty good compared to your skrpe, right?"

"Of course," Ning Zimo nodded.

But he also noticed some typical personal data. The electronic music DJ named Alice actually expanded the number of friends following her to 100,000 people in just one week. And the two articles she posted within this week included

The music article actually accumulated more than 1,000 likes.

This shows that her music does have a certain audience within a small range. Perhaps after learning about her music, those people will rush to her nightclub to experience her nightclub passion firsthand.

As for the "foodie Lauren" who was the first to use [myspace] and is more active and planned, even though he only published one article in the past week, his friends paid attention to him because of his business in the past month.

The number actually reached an exaggerated 200,000 people.

According to the current popularity ranking of [myspace], "Gourmet Lauren" is already the number one celebrity on myspace. The "Celebrity Plan" has rated his popularity as the highest 5 points. It seems that this enthusiastic person

Guys who help others are bound to become the first stars created by the [Celebrity Project] in [myspace].

Ning Zimo thought for a while and said, "It was just one promotion meeting, and we only introduced 500 bloggers and got 3 million users. For promotion in the social field, it is obviously more appropriate to follow the route of [Celebrity Plan], but at this stage [

The Red Man Project can only help [myspace] so much. The rest of the way is up to you to walk on your own."

"Well, [Red Man]" Sachs nodded, but said with a wry smile, "It's just how to pay Jennifer's fees that has become a problem now."

"You can discuss this yourself, and I won't deal with it." Ning Zimo smiled enigmatically, "I have to go about my own business."