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Inside the model Internet cafe near Igreit headquarters.

Simon and Steve Case and others are scattered in front of a 15-inch monitor that is opened. Speaking of which, the crt monitor in front of him can't satisfy Simon, but the 15-inch color flat-screen monitor is very important in this era. good.

The homepage of the Igreit portal is also very simple in Simon's opinion. Fortunately, Yahoo has put a few "two cakes"-like mahjong buttons on the homepage, which is very concise and clear.

The website presents the "same" font division, and under the topmost Igreit logo are the five functional navigation menus of "Internet News", "Online Games", "Personal Homepage", "E-mail" and "Internet Forum". Below the menu is a more subdivided small navigation on the left, news content and a directory of sites that have joined the World Wide Web system in the middle, and user login and registration pages on the right.

While there are a number of features planned to be rolled out one after another, in the next few years, Igret's portal business will focus on these five businesses.

Among the five major businesses, online news is the least promising service in Simon's view.

However, before the emergence of subdivided professional news sites, the news provided by the Igrit portal will be a very attractive service for users. Therefore, the Igret team is already preparing its own news media department.

Due to the limitation of browser functions at this time, the content of online games provided by Igreit is not rich. For the time being, there are only some simple chess and card games and puzzle games. 'Minesweeper' game out.

Because of the temporary lack of content, Igret focused more on the "interactivity" of the game sector. By adding points ranking and other systems in the game, users are motivated to compete. At the same time, a text chat function is also embedded, so that you can chat with friends or make new friends while playing the game.

Of course, this is only a temporary stopgap measure.

Igret has been investing in the development of network graphics and animation display technology similar to the later flash function, and plans to cooperate with the game manufacturer ea, which Daenerys Entertainment holds a stake in, to develop online web games that can be integrated into the ie browser .

The official name of the personal homepage is ygritte blog, and it also integrates a microblog.

In order to enrich the content of the portal website as soon as possible, the personal homepage business will focus more on blog operation in the early stage, and of course, the Weibo business will not be put down.

In addition, the personal homepage business has opened a corporate and celebrity authentication function.

During this period, under the contact of Simon, most of the technology company executives held by Westeros have opened personal homepages, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Jeff Bezos, Card Roll Butts, Steve Case, Tim Berners-Lee, and more.

The participation of a large number of executives from star technology companies is enough to drive the new technology industry in the entire United States to pay attention to the newly born Igret portal.

On the Hollywood side, the official homepage of Daenerys Entertainment has also officially opened, and in the future, it will be connected to the official website that Daenerys Entertainment is building. Simon plans to attract public attention in the form of early announcements of the company's various projects on the official homepage of Daenerys Entertainment.

In just the past few weeks since the official homepage was opened, Daenerys Entertainment has continuously released exclusive news such as the opening of Malibu Daenerys Studios, the confirmation of the supporting role of "Wonder Woman", and the upcoming filming of "Terminator 2", which has caused a lot of attention. quite a strong focus.

The development of the American film industry also means a huge core group of movie fans.

Before the advent of the Internet, moviegoers could only track their favorite movies and filmmakers through traditional media. Now,

Not only can this information be obtained in a more real-time manner, but also the ability to interact with the official through the network, which is undoubtedly very attractive to movie fans.

In terms of stars, because the number of Internet users is still too small for the time being, Simon has not used his influence in Hollywood for the time being.

After all, it's really not good for a Hollywood first-line superstar to open a personal homepage with only a few thousand fans under his name. Simon plans to make efforts in Hollywood after the number of Igret users exceeds one million.

However, although Simon did not take the initiative to win over, there are still many celebrities who took the initiative to open their personal homepages and authenticated them.

Sandra Bullock is one of them. After Simon heard the news, he specially let someone buy a new Panasonic digital camera and gave it to Sandra, as a thank you for her 'support'. upload.

You can post pictures on your personal homepage.

However, although digital cameras have been born in the 1970s, they have not been popularized because the photographic effect is far from that of traditional film cameras and the price is relatively expensive.

Most people are full of expressiveness in their bones. It is conceivable that as long as the Igret portal develops, in order to upload pictures for sharing, the popularity of digital cameras is just around the corner.

E-mail is undoubtedly the most practical of the five major businesses of the Igreit Portal.

Under Simon's insistence, the e-mail function for the general public is still free, but it is limited to certain functions due to the technology and server capacity at this time.

Simon originally planned to take out the business mailbox business and cooperate with other companies. After Carol Bartz joined Igret, he persuaded Simon to give up the idea and instead

The operation of the enterprise mailbox was handed over to the software department.

The last Igreet online forum adopts the mode of mature forums such as Tianya Community in Simon's memory. Compared with the post bar mode of topic discussion, the forum mode is more likely to generate relatively high-quality content. This section will also be like a personal homepage in the future. The same provides a lot of content for the portal.

After discussing the suggestion for the Internet cafe, the conversation inevitably turned to the Ygaret portal.

The last time Simon was in San Francisco for a week, he compiled a thick memo on various ideas about the Internet. He didn't keep it private, and everyone on the scene had seen it.

For the profit model of Igreit Portal, Simon proposed the idea of ​​an Internet advertising alliance according to memory.

Many small websites or personal sites cannot operate a revenue system alone, but these sites happen to make up most of the content of the Internet.

According to the principle of the long tail theory, as long as enough small and micro-sites that are ignored by most people can be united to form an alliance, and combined for advertising operations, it is enough to generate a benefit volume that can compete with some content giants. Google and Amazon in the original time and space are very typical long-tail companies.

"Simon, I found a problem," Carol Bartz, who is very feminine and occasionally swears by American-style scolding, suddenly said: "I want to achieve the long-tail effect you mentioned. , even if the number of Internet users is 10 million or tens of millions, it is not enough, and even if the number of Internet users has the potential to hit a higher order, how long do you think it will take?"

Carol Bartz will be responsible for the sales and operation of Igreit related application software. Simon envisions that for a long time in the future, Igreat's software revenue will be used to subsidize the operation of the portal.

As AOL upgrades the World Wide Web technology for new and old users, in less than a month, 100,000 users have already brought 100,000 users according to the IE browser and the operator's price of 10 US dollars in the original agreement. $1 million in revenue.

If the number of Internet users can reach tens of millions in the next few years, the IE browser will be able to recover hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for Igrete.

Looking at the Igreit Portal, let alone profits, the Igreit Portal has almost no revenue in the short term.

Clearly, Igreit would have no problem turning a profit from software sales as long as it ditched the portal business. Therefore, it is not difficult to understand that Carol Bartz should not agree with Simon burning money on the portal business.

Simon heard Carol Bartz's question, looked at the outspoken female executive, and said, "In 1980, the number of VCRs in North America was 2%, but by 1990, the number had risen to 70%. It's almost universal. I believe the internet should have that potential as well."

Carol Bartz quickly retorted: "These are two industries that have absolutely no reference and are not comparable."

In the Internet cafe, everyone stopped discussing and watched with interest this executive who had just joined the company for less than a month to attack his own boss.

Simon seemed very patient and said, "Okay, Carroll, you should know Moore's Law proposed by Gordon Moore, the founder of Intel Corporation, right?"

Carol Bartz deftly replied: "As the number of components that integrated circuits can hold increases, computer performance doubles every 18 to 24 months."

Simon reclined on the back of the chair casually, knowing that the people around him should also have doubts similar to Carol Bartz, and glanced around the Internet cafe for a week, saying: "The increase in computer performance also means that we can use the computer Realize more functions on the Internet. In my opinion, the current service of the Igreit portal is still very simple. In the future, I believe that the news and information of the Internet platform can completely replace the traditional paper media platform, and online games can be far more than simple chess and cards. and puzzles, and even achieve tens of thousands of people to interact in a game server at the same time. The functions of e-mail, personal homepage and online forum will be more powerful. And, not only that, the future Internet, in addition to news, Games and social networking, people should also be able to get all the functional experience of novels, music, videos, online shopping, etc. You can think about it, if a person can get all the information and information provided by newspapers, TV and brick and mortar stores in daily life through the Internet Service, and the price is relatively very low, even free, how many people will such a platform attract?”

Everyone in the Internet cafe belongs to the elite level. Simon is just a simple description. Everyone can easily draw a grand industrial blueprint in their minds. Tim Berners-Lee and Steve Case are excited. John Chambers was fascinated, and Jeff Bezos rubbed his knees, with obvious eagerness in his expression, as if he could not wait to return to the headquarters of Igret to work.

Carol Bartz, who was the first to question Simon, was also silent for a moment, and finally said: "But, Simon, this may take a long time, maybe ten years, maybe twenty years. Moreover, I think developing a complete This is a brand new industry that cannot be completed by one company.”

"Certainly not one," Simon said. "In fact, there are many, such as now, we have Cisco, AOL and Igret. In addition, Westeros has also invested in Microsoft, Intel , Sun, Oracle and other new technology companies, these can become our allies to jointly develop the Internet industry."

John Chambers, from the sun, heard the words at this time and said, "Simon, so you have had this idea three years ago?"

After the 1987 stock market crash, the West

Meng made hundreds of billions of dollars from the operation of S\u0026P 500 index futures, and invested most of the funds in new technology fields in the first place.

Simon shook his head, casually said a lie that was not a lie, and said, "To be more accurate, it should be the first time I came into contact with the ARPANET when I joined Stanford."

In 1985, a poor young man from the bottom of the world won a full scholarship to Stanford University through his years of hard work.

Then.

In just a few months, he went crazy.

Simon is not just the boss of Carol Butts, but everyone else in the field, to be precise.

Everyone fell into a unified silence again.

If one craziness can create such a stunning and talented guy, it seems that it is not bad to be crazi like this once.

John Chambers was the first to recover from this silence, saying: "Simon, there have been other network router companies in the industry. To ensure Cisco's dominant position, we must do an IPO as soon as possible, and then grow through acquisitions. Its own strength. Moreover, Cisco maintains an absolute lead, and can also ensure the promotion of World Wide Web technology.”

"You can discuss the Cisco IPO with James and John tomorrow. However, before Cisco goes public, it will re-plan and set up a dual-class share structure to ensure Igret's absolute control over Cisco. Moreover, during the IPO process, Igreit will also participate in the subscription to ensure its own shareholding ratio." Simon said, looked at Steve Case, and asked, "Steve, what do you mean?"

In just one month, the number of AOL users exceeded 100,000, and Steve Case was complacent at this time.

If there is no such big financier as Simon, it is naturally the best choice to immediately launch AOL to raise funds in the public market. Now, of course, Steve Case is no longer anxious about this matter. Anyway, the absolute control of the company already belongs to Victoria. Stro is done, and the IPO will be carried out. The shareholding ratio of their original partners will be further compressed. Listening to what Simon just said, Simon is going to implement a dual-class share structure. Obviously, Westeros does not intend to give up its ownership of AOL. Absolute control.

If AOL wants to expand, IPO is inevitable, but it can also accumulate for another year or two.

Thinking this way, Steve Case said: "I think the number of AOL users exceeds 1 million, and it is the best time to consider IPO."

Simon nodded with a smile, but shook his head again, and said, "It's still a bit conservative. Maybe, you can set the target at 10 million."

In the original time and space, the World Wide Web was announced to be free and open in 1993, and the graphical interface browser appeared, so AOL began to grow explosively. By 1996, the number of users exceeded 10 million.

Now, Simon has released the technical standards of the World Wide Web three years in advance, the development of the graphical interface browser has also been completed, and the portal website business with complete content has also been launched in advance to ensure sufficient Internet content.

Under the circumstance that personal computers and online networks have accumulated for many years, coupled with Simon's personal promotion, he believes that this time the number of American online users will go from 100,000 to 10 million in only three years.

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