In another time and space, some people say that Web 2.0 is a complete hype, a shocking scam directed by novelty-seeking cyber researchers, cyber entrepreneurs eager to get rich, and Wall Street venture capitalists.

Regardless of whether this statement is grandiose or not, it does reflect some of the problems in the Web 2.0 boom.

At that time, the haze brought by the cold winter of the Internet still hung over Silicon Valley for a long time. A large number of network practitioners do not know where to go, and Wall Street's venture capital is smashed into the pit, desperate for a day to solve the problem. When a network research expert proposed the concept of Web 2.0, the first two immediately became like a treasure and began to join forces to hype wildly.

It must be correct regardless of whether the Web 2.0 concept is correct or not, and it must be useful regardless of whether Web 2.0 is useful or not!

In the minds of these people, Web 2.0 is first and foremost a slogan and a banner. Just like the Heaven and Earth Society's "anti-Qing and restoration of sight", whether you believe it or not, running the rivers and lakes must be on your lips, and it will evolve into a golden rule that cannot be violated.

Extreme free will and individual heroism have always been unique to Silicon Valley. People worship Bill Gates, Jobs, and Yang Zhiyuan, and regard them as heroes of science and technology entrepreneurship, claiming that individual strength and wisdom can change the world. But historically, when the concept of Web 2.0 was proposed, these Silicon Valley elites instantly became collectivists and advocates of digital Maoists - because the core of Web 2.0 is that everyone participates, everyone creates, and believes in the power of collective intelligence.

The ass decides the head!

The first to respond to Web 2.0 were Wall Street investors, who frantically promoted the concept and made Web 2.0 hot in a short period of time. Not only that, but they also took action while propagating, throwing money at Web 2.0 sites, and the Nasdaq index flourished again after the Internet winter.

At that time, just two or three years after the first wave of the Internet bubble, the second wave of the Internet bubble was hyped, Google's stock price was pushed to a peak of $600, and the newly founded Facebook was valued at $15 billion.

Just six months after Yahoo took a stake in Right Media, the company barely changed when its valuation suddenly soared by $650 million. And the reason for the increase in value is very nonsense, it is actually Microsoft to buy another unrelated company at a high price, and Yahoo has raised the purchase price of Right Media by $650 million in order to keep up with Microsoft's pace.

Song Weiyang proposed the concept of Web 2.0 at the first China Internet Conference, and relevant practitioners saw opportunities, while investors saw mountains of money!

Before the new issue of Red Herring magazine came out, venture capitalists in the United States had already learned that articles about Web 2.0 appeared in several newspapers at the same time. Immediately, Internet research experts who received or confiscated the money began to discuss Web 2.0 in a matter-of-fact manner, and the Wall Street Journal even declared that the Internet was about to usher in a new era.

The Nasdaq index, which only stopped falling in September, suddenly rose sharply in November under the hype of these people. Many Internet stocks are brushing green (green is rising), and even related technology stocks are also collectively green, and the traces of human operation behind them should not be too obvious!

In order to make the concept of Web 2.0 deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and in order to make Web 2.0 more convincing, the Yankees touted Song Weiyang to the sky.

Various previous reports about Song Weiyang in Chinese mainland, even the fake news in Hong Kong City, as well as the chicken soup stories of "Reader" and "Yilin", have been collected and summarized by the American media. An Oriental business hero known to the American people was born, and even to the extent that he added oil and vinegar was even more outrageous than that of the port city.

In American newspapers, Song Shumin was the target of persecution, and by the way, he hacked the Chinese government. Under huge political and economic pressure, Song Weiyang took pocket money at the age of 17 and used his summer vacation to go to the Special Administrative Region to grab the first pot of gold in an almost fraudulent way, and then became the richest person in Chinese mainland in less than 10 years.

These reports particularly focus on the stock market, saying that Song Weiyang invested in stocks during his college years and made a profit of hundreds of times in half a year. He took the money to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and manipulated the stock price of Lenovo, China's largest technology company, before he was 20 years old. The money was used to establish Golden Bull Capital, and during the Asian financial turmoil, it defeated international speculators led by Soros in one fell swoop, and made a crazy profit of hundreds of millions of dollars.

It can be described as an extreme exaggeration, Soros has become a clown in these news, and has become a villain who highlights Song Weiyang's awesomeness. It doesn't matter if you believe it or not, you can fool ordinary people, anyway, the proposer of the Web2.0 concept must be so awesome!

Wikipedia has begun to become popular in the United States this year, and those American newspapers declare: Song Weiyang is the pioneer of the Internet Encyclopedia, before the creation of Wikipedia, Song Weiyang Holdings' Sogou Search has created the world's largest Chinese encyclopedia website, Wikipedia is just a poor copycat.

Even the book "The Future Belongs to China" a few years ago was translated by American editors, so Song Weiyang became a prophet again: predicted the Asian financial turmoil, predicted the bankruptcy of South Korea's Daewoo, and predicted that "Made in China" would flourish......

In addition, the "Wall Street Journal" also "exclusively disclosed" the inside story of the Golden Bull Club, saying that this organization is the Chinese Skull and Bones Club, which was founded by Song Weiyang during his college years. There are currently only more than ten members of the Golden Bull Club, but on the rich list in Chinese mainland, there are 4 members in the top ten, 3 members between 11 and 50, 3 members between 50 and 100, and the rest are all within 150.

Song Weiyang also founded China's first private business school, and more than 6% of the students became multimillionaires within a few years, and more than 30% of the students became millionaires.

With such an awesome character, can the concept of Web 2.0 proposed by him still be fake?

The Wall Street Journal even published this sentence: "The richest young man from the Far East, a speech at the China Internet Conference, caused the Nasdaq index to rise by 100 points." ”

Obviously, you capitalists are not good at speculation!

Fortune magazine couldn't even wait to send a reporter to interview Song Weiyang, and in the December issue, Song Weiyang was made the cover character, and even the cover photo was temporarily hand-painted, and the cover guide text was "China's Bill Gates". The article details the three major companies that Song Weiyang is chairman of: "Xifeng Food & Beverage Co., Ltd., which has become the industry hegemon in the Chinese market, has just been listed as a 'Hang Seng Index stock' by the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The invincible Coca-Cola and Pepsi have come home in front of the young richest man, and Very Coke has occupied 40% of the Chinese cola market. And Jianlibao, which he acquired last year, has also set off a functional drink boom in China this year, with a market share 28 percentage points ahead of Red Bull......"

There are also various touts for Shenzhou Technology, saying that this company has monopolized PHS phones in China, and the annual net profit of a single business is as high as 500 million US dollars (and it is nonsense in J8). There is also the USB flash drive that has been popularized, and this company also owns a patent, and every American consumer who buys a USB flash drive is contributing patent fees to Shenzhou Technology. In the field of personal computers, China Computer has become the second largest computer manufacturer in China (deliberately ignoring Lenovo's market share of more than 16% and more than 65% of the domestic computer market share). The article also said that Shenzhou mobile phone is already the number one mobile phone brand in China, which is not scribbled, but ignores the horror market share of Nokia and Motorola mobile phones.

As for Taurus Capital, due to the high degree of confidentiality of internal information, Fortune magazine is completely blind throughout, and even speculates that the total assets of Taurus Capital have reached $5 billion.

At the end of the article, Fortune magazine wrote: "It is unbelievable that China's richest man is only three months away from turning 27. He is not the son of an official eunuch, he does not have any government background, and even his status as a rich second generation has to be discounted, because his family had tens of millions of yuan in debt when he started his business. In China, young people have come to regard him as an inspirational idol and a spiritual leader for countless young entrepreneurs. For two consecutive years, a survey in China showed that Song Weiyang was the most influential young person, and Bill Gates could only be ranked second. This year, Song Weiyang has set his sights on the online game industry, and he has launched an online game called "Legend", which has almost the same number of registered players as the number of Chinese netizens, and the monthly game point card revenue is as high as 1 million US dollars...... The richest young man is China's first Internet investor, having invested in nearly half of China's large Internet companies. After proposing the concept of Web 2.0, he said that he would continue to increase investment, and the Internet is about to enter a new era. ”

Many large media in the United States have pursued Song Weiyang for a month, and finally made Song Weiyang a household name. Many Americans can't tell what Song Weiyang looks like, but they firmly remember his name, and after learning that he is a shareholder of Sohu and NetEase, the stock prices of Sohu and NetEase suddenly soared.

A generation of business legends, the richest young man under the age of 27, China's Bill Gates, the man who repelled Soros head-on, the unveiler of the Internet Web 2.0 era, made the Nasdaq index rise by 100 points in a single speech...... Under the hype, many young Americans regard Song Weiyang as an idol, and some people even pretend to tattoo the word "Song" on their bodies. Exotic, the whole world likes this tune, and there are many Yankees who have Chinese characters tattooed on their bodies, and they can't even tell the difference between Japanese benzenpina and katakana and Chinese characters.

It's a pity that the American media published "song", and the tattoo master is also half-hanging, and most of these Song Weiyang fans came out of the tattoo parlor, and most of them were tattooed with the word "send".

Song Weiyang was hyped like that in the United States, and the concept of Web 2.0 proposed by him is naturally well known. In other words, the hype of Song Weiyang and Web 2.0 is mutually reinforcing, and at the same time, the entire Silicon Valley also regards Song Weiyang and Web 2.0 as a guideline. The CEOs of those Internet companies and those conceited Internet entrepreneurs, even if they sneer at Song Weiyang, will still say: "China's Song is a genius, he has a real Internet thinking, and Web2.0 is an unstoppable wave of the future." ”

The whole Silicon Valley and the whole United States are talking about Web2.0, and the Web2.0 boom broke out in advance under the influence of Song Weiyang. The Nasdaq index, which once fell from more than 5,000 points to more than 1,000 points, grew wildly in the next six months, and broke through the 2,500-point mark again a year later. During this period, there was constant news that Web 2.0 websites had received tens of millions of dollars in financing, and a new round of Internet wealth myths stimulated ordinary people to throw money at the stock market.

Song Weiyang has been used as a tool for propaganda and hype from beginning to end, and Web 2.0 is just a flag and slogan to a greater extent.

And the Yankees' extreme praise of Song Weiyang, after the news was transmitted back to China, also made the Chinese media instantly climax......