Hollywood Hunter

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The progress of the cooperation negotiation between Igret and the New York Times Group, the company's response to a series of recent lawsuits, the IE browser free plan, the buyout-to-subscription plan for the basic tools of the World Wide Web, and the overview of key startups backed by the venture capital sector Etc., etc.

Although he didn't go to San Francisco, Simon spent most of Saturday in his villa study.

Simon has always avoided being a micromanager himself, but as Igret's company grew larger, more and more things required him to be personally involved in making decisions. As an absolutely emerging industry, the Internet has absolutely no precedent for comparison. Once it goes in the wrong direction, it will be even more difficult to reverse it.

Such as the cooperation with the New York Times Group.

Neither Jeff Bezos nor Carol Bartz, who is not in charge of the online portal division, said that they should firmly refuse to join the New York Times Group's content resources in the news information field that the company can already provide users with content on its own. It is believed that doing so may lead to the shunting of Igret's media voice in the Internet field by the New York Times Group.

To a large extent, the two of them were right in thinking so.

Introducing the news content of The New York Times Group, and even guiding traffic to the other party's professional news website, will inevitably lead many users to leave the Yggrete portal to seek more professional news content. On the surface, this is very unfavorable for the Igreit portal to control the direction of Internet media.

However, if he refuses to cooperate, can Igret really hold this position for a long time?

Not to mention other things, just comparing the staff size of the news information team, the number of employees in the news and information department of Igreit Portal is less than one-third of the 1,600 employees of the New York Times.

The key to the backwardness of traditional paper media in the Internet field is that they must protect their own vested interests.

Once the power of the print media is fully liberalized and marches into digitalization, the Igreit portal will not be able to compete with the traditional print media with profound background in terms of news information. It is unlikely that traditional paper media will completely turn to digitalization for a long time in the future. However, even if it is only a part of its efforts, if the Igreit portal refuses to cooperate in content, it will inevitably push a large number of content resources from traditional paper media to competitors. Ultimately, It may even lead to a bigger competitor.

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

In terms of network business, Igreit needs to protect at all costs, one is the search engine, the other is the social network, and the third is e-commerce. The portal site is destined to be just an excess. Several executives in the past may not have understood that as the scale of Internet users continues to expand and users become more proficient in using the Internet, the quiet and rapid growth of the search engine business is visible to the naked eye.

After mastering search engines and social networks, the future will be the real mastering of the content interface of the Internet.

At that time, through these two invisible big nets, Igreit wants users to see what they can only see. No matter how professional and rich your news content is, if it can’t appear in search engines and social networks, or is deliberately hidden in the most inconspicuous corners, then everything will be in vain.

This is the truly indestructible right to speak!

Relatively speaking, the portal site is much easier to replicate.

If Ygrit pushes a lot of content resources into the arms of competitors, it is likely to bring opportunities for transformation to the other party.

On the contrary, opening up the acceptance of content resources will, to a large extent, form the Matthew effect that the stronger will become stronger.

Not only that, the digital content of traditional media seems to have gained more influence in the process, but many print media want to get more traffic from the Igreit portal, whether it is active or passive, they must follow Igreet’s Act according to the rules of the special portal.

It is very simple to say that content that is inclined to the Westeros system is bound to be recommended more easily. Articles attacking the Westeros system will definitely be suppressed. This potential impact will be further transmitted to traditional print media platforms. As long as a newspaper Partnering with the Igreit Portal, even if you just want to publish an article on the Westeros system on a print media platform, also consider whether this will affect the partnership between the two parties.

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

In addition to content cooperation, the New York Times Group also proposed to take a stake in the online radio website broadcast invested by Igret, and at the same time obtained the authorization of online video live broadcast technology. Simon agreed.

The online radio website broadcast in my memory can be regarded as a typical example of the most failed enterprise in the Internet 1.0 era. Yahoo spent billions of dollars to acquire this website in a stock exchange model, and only got a mess in the end.

Now that the project has also been launched, Simon does not want to repeat the same mistakes.

Therefore, in the process of project planning, Simon adopted the 'Himalaya Net' model in his memory. In addition to introducing traditional radio resources, the new broadcast focuses more on the development of personal radio stations, audio books, online music, and educational courses. Compared with the immediacy of traditional radio, the broadcast invested by Igreat will save a large number of fixed audio resources.

Simon even considered that when iplayer is launched next year, broadcast can be directly used as a content cooperation platform for this hardware player.

in the short term

It's not realistic to try to persuade the major record labels to provide music resources to the Internet. However, in addition to music, the rich audiobooks, educational courses and other types of film review resources provided by broadcast can also greatly promote the promotion of iplayer digital music players.

Since this broadcast is no longer another broadcast, Simon is actually a little reluctant to share this website with the New York Times Group. Considering that the large number of print media content resources owned by the New York Times Group can be converted into audio resources, Simon agreed, but only gave the other party a 15% stake at most, and directly offered $30 million, and the website was valued at $200 million.

By comparison, when the project was launched last year, Igreat invested only $10 million for an 80% stake in the broadcast website.

Another online live video technology, mainly because the recent London Girls live broadcast has made the public aware of the possibility of the Internet replacing the TV industry.

Traditional print media have always hoped to enter the TV industry, but they were unable to do so due to the long-term restrictions 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 ahead of time.

In addition to this demonstration live broadcast, Igreat has no plan to create a special video website or live broadcast website in the short term. At this stage, the network bandwidth and hardware devices of most users cannot meet the requirements for watching online videos, and video websites The storage and bandwidth consumption is too great, since the New York Times Group wants it, take it.

I personally decided on the cooperation with the New York Times Group, and the other IE browser free plan and the World Wide Web basic tool software buyout and subscription plan were also completely settled in today's discussion.

After completing the communication with pre-installed hardware manufacturers and telecom operators, ie will officially announce that it is free before May.

Another plan to change the sales model of the basic software of the World Wide Web from buyout to subscription was proposed by Carol Bartz. In fact, this matter was discussed after several basic softwares were just born. At that time, Simon tended to one-time The buyout is mainly determined by the software sales environment at that time. After all, Microsoft's windows and Oracle's database software are all one-time buyouts.

A few years later, Carol Bartz brought up this matter again, expressing the hope that the buyout will be turned to subscription, so as to obtain more durable and stable income, and on the other hand, he is also considering the promotion of World Wide Web technology as soon as possible.

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

The software versions purchased by many users may be outdated in just one year. There is no doubt that a timely update will entail an extra expensive expense. Without updating, many new World Wide Web technologies cannot be used. From the point of view of Igreit, a software developer, it is undoubtedly the best choice to maximize profits by continuously promoting users to buy new versions, but everyone is not stupid. It is too easy to be hated by doing so.

Ultimately, pirated versions of the ygritte series of basic tools have been rampant in the past two years.

After buying a set of genuine software, a very small start-up company quietly turned to piracy because they were unwilling to pay for subsequent updates. Even if Igreit officially pursues it, it can still use the old version of the genuine software to make up the number, which has brought a lot of losses to Igreat company unknowingly.

Therefore, switching from a buyout to a subscription can not only ensure that users can use the latest software at any time, but also avoid one-time expensive expenses. The current Internet speed is basically enough to support real-time software updates online. For Igreit, doing so may reduce sales in the software division in the short term, but it will lead to more durable long-term revenue, while also minimizing the problem of piracy.

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

She nodded to Simon in front of the call screen, and Janet sent the girl a who was arranging the thick stack of documents beside her, and picked up a copy for herself. This was a website called 33list suing Igret. Litigation materials for alleged monopoly of the company's advertising affiliate program.

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

Obviously following the trend of 58list.

Throw it away and pick up another one. This is an IE browser plug-in development studio suing Igrete for blocking its development of the change homepage plug-in.

Gee.

Such an anti-human plug-in, I want to God!

Throwing it away again, after searching several times, I finally saw a relatively 'reliable' lawsuit, and with relish he was looking over it on the sofa in the reception area.

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

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

Only after Simon gave a rough plan, the game development team that moved to the Alabama farm was obviously a little free.

The development team needs to be encouraged to maintain a strong interest in their own projects and generate a lot of ideas. In addition, the new solution given by the team also makes Simon very satisfied, so they simply let them play freely. To support the game, the game development team on a farm in Alabama also more than doubled in size during development.

Of course, Simon also gave the final period

Limited, the game must be released before Easter.

Two months later, the brand new "Happy Farm" was finally completed.

Compared with the simple web flash games that only have planting and vegetable stealing systems in my memory, it is probably because they are used to relatively complex stand-alone games. The team has added a home upgrade system and a beast attack setting for this small game in the past two months. In the Dinghe pet development system, the interaction between different players has also been greatly increased. Not only can they steal vegetables and take care of each other's fields, but also help friends drive away wild animals that attack the farm, help upgrade houses, and even go to strangers' farms to explore and hunt.

Simon also specially provided some suggestions for the home upgrade system based on the "Journey 2" game he played in his memory. The most important point is that the higher the level, the more beautiful the house must be. The development team asked him for Dumeijia Manor Shell Villa for this purpose. The image license is intended as one of the templates for houses up to level 12.

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

All these settings, at the same time, form a complete mini-ecosystem.

After the output of the farmland is sold, you can not only buy seeds, but also exchange for the building materials of the home, and constantly upgrade the more beautiful home houses and other various facilities.

Drive wild animals to get rations for various types of pets.

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

In addition, a trap system has been added for stealing vegetables. Once the stealers are caught, they need to pay a ransom.

In the house upgrade system, if players don’t spend a penny and work hard to ‘farm’ every day, it will take one year to reach level 12.

On the other hand, if you use chemical fertilizer props regardless of the cost at all, because there is a time limit for upgrading parts such as houses, kennels, and fences, and the inability to use props is shortened, it will also take at least 1 week. However, if you really do this, the whole The money needed to buy fertilizer props in the process will reach 2 million US dollars, which is completely the cost of a real villa in reality.

so many kinds.

Compared with the simple games in Simon's memory, the playability has increased more than ten times.

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

According to the theory that what you want must be given first, the game sets up a sign-in system. You can get a bag of fertilizer props that can only be bought with money by signing in every day, and there will be additional rewards for continuous sign-in.

Of course, the increase in playability inevitably leads to this little game becoming more complicated.

If players want to try this game, they 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 done overnight. After the user enters the game interface and clicks the download license, according to the basic network speed of the AOL adsl network of 256k, the download can be completed quietly within 10 minutes, and no special installation is required.

The user ends the simple novice guidance process in the early stage, and after a few crops, the game has been installed without knowing it.

In order to support the new flas*** technology, the ie software team of Ygritte company specially optimized the ygritte flash player software for this small game, and plans to once the game is accepted by users, even if it is not too successful A more independent flas*** support kernel will be developed.

This plan was sent to Simon from the head of the ie department, and everyone agreed.

Like the flash player software that focuses on video support, adding a game kernel that is more suitable for web games to run can further strengthen the technical barriers of the IE browser software.

Even if the browser technology has to be licensed due to federal antitrust restrictions in the future, it is impossible for other software manufacturers 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 slow down the overall running speed of ie software, and the user's software experience must always be put first, otherwise he would rather reject this project, ie browser software is the current stage of Ige. The core of Reiter's core, this proposal has also been unanimously approved by Bezos and other core management.

After reading the information on "Happy Farm", Simon wrote some ideas that he had just generated and sent them to San Francisco by e-mail, and finally turned off the computer.

She got up and stretched her body. She saw Janet leaning on the sofa not far away. She turned from behind the desk and walked over. She kissed the woman's face behind the sofa and asked, "What are you looking at?"

Janet shook a lawsuit document in her hand, but didn't say much, she threw it away, leaning her head and rubbing gently on Simon's big hand holding her face.

Simon felt this intimacy and said after a while: "How about you and Jenny can go to Australia to live for a while?"

"I'm not going, I want to be here with you," Janet immediately refused, and added, "Or should we go together?"

Simon could only refuse: "You know, I've been a little busy recently."

"Well," Janet said, grabbing Simon's big hand and pulling it towards herself, trying to raise her head to look at the man: "Little boy, are you afraid?"

Simon couldn't help but lowered his head and pecked on the woman's lips, and said, "Don't be afraid, I will protect you."

In fact, Janet is also dealing with the recent turmoil recently, and she is also not idle, she heard the words: "I will also help you."

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