Reborn 2005: The Internet Myth

It's a vacation anyway, so there's no rush to get back.

So Wang Zheng asked Catherine to lead the way and took a tour around downtown Burbank before getting on the plane back to San Francisco at four o'clock in the afternoon.

After returning to the villa, I quickly cooked two Chinese dishes. The special dish I had in Burbank for lunch today was too delicious.

When Catherine returned from get off work, Wang Zheng turned on his computer, logged into the VPN, and then remotely connected to a server of the domestic Huoyun Company.

The bandwidth is sufficient and not too laggy.

In this way, he can control the computer in Daxia from Midland.

Opening Dingding, looking at the messages on the leaves one by one, is very heart-warming.

So I also turned what I saw and heard in recent days into words and sent them to her one by one.

Because of the time difference, this is their agreed method of communication.

As well as various affairs of Huoyun Group, you can have a general understanding through Xiaoming IM.

Judging from the various reports sent to him, Huoyun has been developing very healthily during this period.

365 Navigation still maintains its leading position in the industry, and its revenue data is very good.

"DNF" has also been officially launched, while "CS:GO" still needs some time to be polished.

Xiaoyunshu has developed rapidly due to its vigorous promotion.

Huo Yun has now begun to try to invite celebrities to join in and create top Internet celebrities. Lan Weiwei is one of them, and has currently gained 300,000 fans.

The effect of Dingding is not very good. It is perfect for office workers and is also used a lot by gamers, but it still fails to cover the core mass users.

From the operating conditions of Daxia, we can analyze the shortcomings of Midland's business and make adjustments.

Since Dingding/WeChat is a little underdeveloped, it’s time to give it a foot on the gas.

Since instant messaging software has established manufacturers, such as Daxia's Penguin, and Midland also has popular applications such as AOL and MSN, if you want to develop it, you can only find another way.

Wang Zheng has two plans for it, one is a circle of friends and the other is a casual game.

Let’s forget about the circle of friends for the time being. Xiaoyunshu hasn’t been raised yet, so there is no need to beat yourself up and divert users’ attention.

That's a casual game.

Speaking of this, Wang Zheng can instantly think of many, many plants vs. zombies, farm, fishery, ranch series, elimination series...

No need to think about it, it must be the farming series. This crappy game is too easy to develop and too profitable.

I can never forget the fear of setting an alarm and getting up in the middle of the night to collect the vegetables!

And its viral propagation characteristics can greatly drive the growth of chat software users.

Just do it if you think of it.

Wang Zheng opened a new document and wrote out the game settings one by one based on his memory.

Although I haven’t played it for many years, I can still remember some details clearly.

Settings such as levels, plants, gold coins, plots, stolen vegetables, watchdogs, tasks and markets were written down one by one, and it actually took more than two pages.

Now that the domestic game development team has been assembled, the production of this small game should not take much effort.

As for Midland... forget it, just make money as an agent. This way, you can also intercept part of the profits and send them back to China through appropriate opportunities.

Then we just need to supplement our development capabilities. There is no need to try to compete with companies like Activision and Blizzard at this time. If you don’t have IP on hand, you can’t compete at all.

Send the information to Zhou Ruoyun and tell her to arrange it for game development. The work in Daxia will be temporarily over.

Turning our attention back to the American League.

Sooner or later, the 365 hot list function will have to be independent, so why not start developing an application similar to Twitter now?

This thing can complement Meta. One side is current affairs and entertainment news, and the other side is sharing and planting, without affecting each other.

Wang Zheng thought for a while and named this new product "TikTok".

The name is not important, what is important is the content.

Upload the development plan to the workspace, and his work for today is over.

At this time, a friend request was sent on WeChat, and the note was Elizabeth.

Wang Zheng clicked through.

"Hey, Justin, this communication tool is really beautiful, much better than the old-fashioned interface of MSN.

"Thanks.

“Today I consulted with my uncle, and he very much recognized the crowdfunding model and confirmed that it is legally allowed.

"That's great. When are you going to start?

"Tomorrow. Tomorrow I will start the company and develop the website. Can you think of a name for it?

"Awesome, Elizabeth, you are a true practitioner of your dreams. How about we call it a Practicer?"

"Cool! Justin, you are the most talented person I have ever met.

"But you know, I still have a job with Meta and don't have time to manage it.

"I know that I will put aside my work on Theanos for a while and focus on Practicer.

Wang Zheng smiled, your Ceanos is out of money, so don't focus on this.

If it does well, Xianos will have money to continue burning.

“Thank you for your hard work. How much start-up capital do you need?

"I think 200,000 is enough. I can come up with $100,000, what about you?

"I'll make up for the remaining 100,000. Come get a check from me another day. Good night.

"Good night.

Turning off the computer, Wang Zheng lay in bed and thought for a while. He recalled the specific details of the crowdfunding website again, and after confirming that there were no problems, he fell asleep.

In the next two days, Wang Zheng asked Catherine to take him around as soon as he went to work during the day. It was really a vacation.

The momentum of Huorong Security is very good. After a few days of advertising bombing, the installed base is approaching 10 million, which is the fastest development rate in history.

The key is that these ads cost no money and were obtained through resource replacement on the 365 Hot List.

Thanks to the account sharing strategy, the number of users in the Meta community has also grown rapidly. It now has 3 million users. The content is not too much, about 200,000, but this growth is visible to the naked eye.

Originally, virtual communities have more users and more content, and the faster the user growth will be.

However, in the process of growth, the content review mechanism must also be more cautious.

Cheryl is already preparing to form a content review team to prevent political, drug-related and other content from appearing on the website.

This is to ensure that the tone of the website is in line with the vast majority of users.

In terms of review, in addition to urging the development team to develop image recognition and text recognition functions as soon as possible, we can only rely on manual review and community environment guidance for the time being.

Since the launch of Xiaoyunshu, Wang Zheng has understood the importance of intelligent recognition algorithms and is trying to find solutions.

At dinner time, Catherine walked in with a stack of documents and said: "Boss, Ultion Company has been registered."

That's right, Wang Zheng registered another company.

It was still copied through Meta's VIE holding model, and then the company named Ultron was registered.

The equity eventually fell into the hands of an overseas Phil International Group.

In Wang Zheng's plan, this company will carry data center, cloud computing, operating system and other businesses.

These businesses are not suitable to be placed in Meta. Companies that focus on social networking pay more attention to operations, which is inherently inconsistent with the computing business that values ​​technology.

Therefore, only by setting up a separate company can it fully realize its value.

Now, it's time to find a tool man for this company.