Top of the Great Era

Chapter 256 Three-Year Plan of Friends Network

Signing a long-term contract means increasing the risk.

The Internet market is changing rapidly. What is booming today may disappear tomorrow.

Right now, the development momentum of Friends.com is good, who knows what the trend will be in two or three years?

Zhang Yiming didn't know.

But Zhou didn't know.

"Don't worry, you can sign a five-year contract with Baidu."

Zhou Buqi is very proud.

This is the advantage of the times, and if you don't take advantage of it, you don't take it for nothing.

"In addition, Google's bidding ranking should also be operated. Friends.com has at least 2000 million promotion fees every year. You can arrange it accordingly."

"My application report is 1000 million, right?"

"Hurry up and spend money to start the market. You can also see the momentum of Penguin. Microsoft can't last long. We have to get through the social field quickly."

Zhang Yiming pondered for a moment and said, "If that's the case, I think we can go to Sina for cooperation. Well, what I mean is, we need to deepen cooperation."

Now, Friends.com and Sina are already a cooperative relationship.

Through the Sina mailbox, you can quickly log in to Friends.com.

Zhou Buqi asked him, "How to deepen?"

Zhang Yiming said: "In the first half of the year, Sina and Shanda fought for equity, which led to a financial mess, fattening their capital, and starving themselves. During this time, Sina is looking for partners everywhere. Uh... I think Sina's blog is good, It hasn’t been long since it was launched, but the momentum has surpassed BlogChina.”

Zhou Buqi was surprised and said, "Will Sina Blog cooperate with Friends.com? It's all about social networking. Is this a competitor?"

Zhang Yiming said with a smile: "Actually, they came to the door on their own initiative, and Mr. Cao called me himself."

"why?"

"QQ is so powerful that it gave Microsoft a slap in the face in a flash. Sina is also afraid, and it is taking precautions. QZone is already online, which is a blogging nature."

"Oh, you mean that Sina Blog wants to cooperate with Friends.com to compete with Qzone?"

"Correct."

Zhou Buqi fell silent.

It doesn't feel very reliable.

Friends Network is a product created by him, and foresight is useless at this time.To build this website requires more business thinking.

"Friends also has a personal diary, which is actually equivalent to a blog." Zhou Buqi said hesitantly.

Zhang Yiming said with a smile: "This is not a contradiction. Friends.com is a social network for acquaintances, and only friends can see personal logs. Sina blog is different. It is a public social network, and everyone can visit and read blog posts. It is complementary."

Zhou Buqi thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "No, we can't cooperate!"

"what?"

Zhang Yiming was deeply surprised that Sina is currently the largest portal website in China.

Once the two parties cooperate, Sina's traffic will greatly promote the development of Youyou.com.

Zhou Buqi said: "This is not in line with the strategy!"

In his personal conception, Friends.com is actually a web version of Moments with more rich functions, and it is a social network for acquaintances.But he never gave up on mass social networking, that is Twitter!It is meager!

These two domain names are in his hands.

If Friends.com cooperated with Sina Blog, wouldn't it be promoting the development of Sina Blog?Help users of Sina blog to develop usage habits?This is to lay the cornerstone of Sina Weibo in the future and to support competitors.

Zhang Yiming didn't know his entire industrial ecological chain, so he was a little at a loss.

Zhou Buqi said in a deep voice: "For the blog content for the public, Friends.com has to do it by itself! You can't leave this business to Sina."

"Are we blogging too?"

Zhang Yiming was stunned.

What are these?

Zhou Buqi said: "The half-year plan of Youyou.com is to sign a wide range of cooperative relationships with major platforms. The main reason is that we spend money to buy their traffic portals. The one-year plan is to launch casual social web games. Improve stickiness and increase online time. The three-year plan is to launch our own blog.”

"Are you really blogging?"

Zhang Yiming couldn't believe it, he couldn't figure out his way.

Now it is a big outlet for blogging, and the popularity is higher than that of campus social networking.If you don’t start a blog at this time, wait a year or two to do it again, the market will be taken over, wouldn’t it mean that the day lily is cold?

Zhou Buqi laughed and said, "Ours is not called a blog, but a public account."

"the public……"

Zhang Yiming savored the word, but didn't think it was too high-end, it was just another way of saying it on the blog.

Zhou Buqi said: "Now is the era of streaming media. Do you know that there is a Youtube in the United States?"

"Not Youtube, it's theYoutube."

"Cough cough..."

Zhou Buqi almost burst out laughing.

Yes, the domain name of youtube.com is in his hands.

The current domain name is theyoutube.com, and the other party has been working hard to communicate with Zhou Buqi through emails and wants to buy the domain name.However, he opened his mouth wide and directly bid $500 million.

It's just a start-up company, and it has never received financing. How can it have the money to pay such a huge sum?
Several negotiations ended in failure.

Zhou Buqi waved his hand and said, "The future is the era of streaming media. Music and video, including live events, hot news, etc., will be actively sent to users in the form of streaming push."

"Stream push..."

Zhang Yiming savored this word carefully, and felt that it was very clever.

Zhou Buqi said: "The so-called streaming push is also divided into levels. The first level is video sites like Youtube and Netfix. Netfix, you know? It's Netflix. I don't know. You can pay attention to their model. Besides Netflix In addition to the DVD rental business, a new online video viewing service has been launched. It means that users choose the movies they want to watch, and Netflix sends the movie video link to the user’s mailbox, which is streaming.”

"Ah."

Zhang Yiming nodded slightly and listened patiently.

I was very surprised.

Boss Zhou, how does he know so much?He is obviously not a computer major?And he doesn't go to class every day, where does his theoretical knowledge come from?
Zhou Buqi continued: "The articles on the Sina blog are not even the first-level streaming media. It is to put the articles there, and then users choose to read them by themselves. The official account we want to create is different. It is a A deep streaming service."

"How do you understand?"

"It means that users can subscribe to the official account. After the content of the official account is updated, it will be actively pushed to the user, and the user does not need to search. This is the primary streaming media."

Sina blogs can also follow big Vs.

However, Sina Blog currently does not have a push service, and users need to enter the blog space of the big V they follow to read by themselves, which is cumbersome to operate.

Zhang Yiming frowned: "This is just some small innovative changes in the operation process, and it cannot be regarded as a core competitiveness."

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "Of course, so we want to develop in-depth streaming media services. This is not an innovation at the service level, but an innovation at the basic level of the industry."

Zhang Yiming understood immediately, his eyes lit up, "You mean algorithm?"

Zhou said calmly, "Yes, algorithm!"

He is a little guilty.

Because of this set of business ideas, it was Zhang Yiming who promoted them in his previous life, not to mention the domestic ones, they were all over the world.

From Toutiao, to Douyin, to Xigua Video... These streaming media platforms rely on internal complex algorithms to achieve a unique experience at the application layer.

These platforms are not for users to find content, but for the platform to make unified judgments and analyzes based on the user's habits, gender, hobbies, education, majors, pursuits, opinions, fields and many other levels.

In this way, it can be inferred that the user's most favored content is recommended in the past.

When users use it, they will be surprised to find that they don't need to search for the content they want to see like other platforms, and the platform has already helped to choose it.

And this set of algorithms is the core and most valuable.

The reason why the U.S. emperor would risk the world's disgrace to attack ByteDance is that the biggest goal is the algorithm.It just so happens that our country has relevant laws that prohibit the export of this algorithm.

ByteDance is sandwiched between two big countries. If you want to sell it, you can’t sell it, and if you don’t sell it, you will be blocked. The situation is extremely difficult.

In essence, this is the same as Huawei.

Both companies have mastered certain innovative technologies at the basic level of the industry.

This is the private land of Europe, America and Japan.

Zhang Yiming is a technical genius. He led the research and development of ByteDance's algorithm in his previous life.

Hearing what Zhou Buqi said at this time, I felt a sense of sympathy, and said excitedly: "Yes! Algorithm! Boss Zhou, your idea is very advanced! I finally understand that you want me to cooperate with Microsoft Research to develop The significance of the research and development of big data processing systems lies."

Zhou Buqi felt rather proud.

This is killing two birds with one stone.

First, cooperate with Dr. Wang Jian of Microsoft Research Institute to carry out some big data algorithm research and development.

In-depth streaming needs to judge user preferences.

These need to collect data and process them according to some operations that users usually use on Friends.com.

Therefore, the whole process is to have friends network first, and then user data.Then there is the big data processing system, the research and development of in-depth streaming media algorithms, and the launch of official account services.

The circle of friends public account conceived by Zhou Buqi is not the same as the WeChat public account.

WeChat is a mobile terminal with a small screen, so it can only push the content stream of the subscribed official account. The PC terminal has a large screen and can have a richer display space.In addition to the content stream of the subscribed official account, it can also recommend content that users may like according to the algorithm, so that users can pay attention to more new official accounts, which is convenient for promotion.

It will take two years until the official account is launched.

At that time, Microsoft has basically been cleaned up by Tencent, and it will be disgraced.

Chinese people have finally realized that the giant IT companies in the United States are nothing more than this, and they can also be defeated by domestic Internet companies.

First, Taobao defeated eBay, then Penguin defeated Microsoft, and even Baidu also defeated Google and became the number one search engine in China... This accident finally awakened the Chinese people.

Those elite backbones have left Microsoft and Google one after another, either starting a business or joining BAT.

Friends.com just took advantage of the opportunity of cooperating with Dr. Wang Jian of Microsoft Research to develop a big data processing system and develop further cooperation...persuading him to jump to Ziweixing Technology to develop cloud computing business.

It can be said that Zhou Buqi has already made a clear plan for the next two or three years.

It depends on how it is executed.

(End of this chapter)