Chapter 139: Building Huaxia's Facebook
Wang Kaixuan confirmed that Tang He was just at the right time and did not know the current situation of officialdom in Bingzhou City.
After getting such an answer, he quickly let Tang He leave.
Now it's time to explain to that person.
Otherwise, he really doesn't know what to do!
Only Tang He came out of Zhang Weida's office, still confused.
What does this mean?
Why is there no head and no tail?
Is it really to encourage yourself to come?
As for cooperating with the school in the future...... Don't look at the joke, even if there is such a project, how can Tang He be willing!
Tang He didn't believe this answer at all, but he couldn't guess Wang Kaixuan's thoughts, so he had to put this matter aside for the time being.
But I don't know if it weren't for Wang Kaixuan, it would be really possible for him to die before he was born!
The shopping malls are sinister, especially the officialdom.
These days, he has been busy with public classes, and Tang He doesn't bother to ask about the situation in the ideal country.
Now that he was idle again, he finally had time to pay attention.
The development of the 3721 navigation website has been steadily rising, and the average number of daily login users has reached 150,000, which has to be said to be a remarkable achievement.
By the end of 1997, there were less than one million Internet users in Huaxia, which means that nearly one-sixth of Internet users will use the 3721 navigation website on the Internet.
However, in 1998, with the popularization of the Internet and the reduction of hardware prices, more and more people will go online, and the number of Chinese Internet users exceeded 2 million that year, and in 1999, it broke through the 10 million mark, and the great leap forward of the first renewal of the Internet will enter the climax in another year.
Therefore, the development of the 3721 website cannot tolerate a trace of slackness, which is like sailing against the current, as long as it stops, it will collapse for thousands of miles.
Users are the only asset of an Internet company.
If you want to make the 3721 navigation website attract more traffic, in the initial stage of Internet development, a free online mailbox is undoubtedly the best means.
Tang He once read a report in his previous life, saying that when Microsoft acquired Hotmail for $400 million in 1997, Hotmail already had nearly 10 million users, which was the largest Internet user group that year, accounting for almost half of all Internet traffic.
You can see the power of free online mailboxes.
Cao Chuncheng's university team has made almost no progress in the research of the advertising system, and it is still in the stage of theoretical discussion.
But the progress of Zhang Xiaolong's team disappointed him.
Although the Foxmail software is still in its first version, it is already a mature software, and it stands to reason that it should be easy to change it to an eb web client, which is nothing more than writing code.
But after so many days, the progress of Zhang Xiaolong's team is 108,000 miles away from Tang He's imagination.
This is not to say that Zhang Xiaolong and they don't work hard, it's just that these people's thinking is fundamentally wrong, and these people still hold the same software thinking as before, seeking perfection, bigness, and stability.
Zhang Xiaolong's online mailbox system can be said to have completely copied the Foxmail software to the web page.
Moreover, Zhang Xiaolong also tried to improve and add all the shortcomings of Foxmail software and some new functions in the eb web client.
At present, Zhang Xiaolong: They are almost finishing the first edition.
But......
What the hell is this?
Tang He remembered that KFC had a Big Mac burger in his previous life, and he felt that Zhang Xiaolong and what they were making now were definitely better.
Now the EB web client they have created is a giant mailbox!
Because it's huge, it's extremely bulky, and it's so slow that it's miserable.
An email like this, let alone an ordinary user, even Tang He himself will not want to use this product!
Think about it, when a netizen wants to send and receive emails on his mailbox, and then he opens the 3721 website, enters the username and password, and clicks to log in, and then because of the huge size of Foxmail, the code is cumbersome and cumbersome, after more than ten minutes, he didn't log on to the mailbox, and after another ten minutes, he finally logged in, and every step in the mailbox was cumbersome......
In such a situation, will this netizen jump to his feet? Will he scold his mother?
And what netizen wants to use such an email address?
If you let 3721 users use such an email address, let alone use online mailboxes to attract users, it is not good that even old users will be lost.
And now Zhang Xiaolong, what they are doing is just such a thing!
In any era, whether it is now or before Tang He's rebirth, if any Internet product wants to succeed, the first thing to do is the user physical examination, which is the premise of everything. All products that are opposed to users, no matter how well designed, cannot be truly successful.
Zhang Xiaolong's team obviously didn't think about it, or didn't have time to think about it.
So after seeing the semi-finished products of Zhang Xiaolong's team, Tang He immediately pulled a chair and sat down, summarized the memories of his previous life a little, and began to talk about the Internet thinking he knew.
After a long time, Tang He turned the topic to the mailbox.
He told everyone about a famous product design concept in his previous life: "Don't think about what design and what function, you can only ask questions and solve problems in the future." ”
Tang He seriously analyzed: "Mailbox is a tool-based product, with the current speed of the Chinese Internet, we don't need to do how dazzling and special, simple, fast, easy to use, safe, it's enough!
Seeing that his words made everyone fall into deep thought, he continued: "The Foxmail software runs on the computer, and the eb client runs on the email server, the two are completely different......!
The programmers here are all young people.
Programmers are mostly rectums, and they always think about technology, and they always advocate technology.
In the initial stage of the vigorous development of the Internet, programmers are even more tolerant and can accept any new ideas and things.
Because the technological update in this era is too fast, one day is different from the other, today you are doing the right thing, tomorrow it will become wrong.
For those of us programmers, just because you can't find a bug doesn't mean it doesn't exist, and just because you can't see someone who is better than you doesn't mean that there isn't anyone in the world who is better than you.
is like Tang He in front of them.
Tang He was not worth mentioning in terms of programming ability, but his marketing ability is one of the best in the country.
At this point, just looking at the cooperation between Youpin Bookstore and New Oriental these days, you can get a glimpse of the English empty class project.
However, now hearing Tang He's words, these programmers suddenly feel that Tang He is not a layman, at least he has the thinking of a programmer!
Tang He's vision and cognitive thinking of the Internet are far better than anyone present.
Tang He's words are not immersed in this industry for decades, and it is impossible to say them at all.
But......
Huaxia Internet does not have a history of ten years!
Is there really a genius in this world?
There are several young people in Zhang Xiaolong's team who come to Bingzhou to actually want to work with their idol Zhang Xiaolong, although they have no dislike for Tang He, the boss, but in the bottom of their hearts, they still have some contempt and disdain.
Just a layman, he knows what the Internet!
But at this moment, these people are ashamed.
No matter how bad Tang He's programming skills are, just by virtue of his understanding of Internet products, he can be called an expert!
Several of them were conquered by Tang He.
Zhang Xiaolong had been in deep thought after hearing Tang He's words, and after a long time, he suddenly woke up.
The ideal country provides Zhang Xiaolong with a platform to work with hobbies, where he can give full play to his abilities and realize his self-worth, which is the reason why he followed Tang He to merge with the state.
Therefore, Zhang Xiaolong does not require Tang He to understand computers and the Internet, as long as he fulfills his promise and does not command blindly.
But now Tang He really surprised him.
With such a boss who knows how to make good use of people, the future of the ideal country is simply unimaginable!
So Zhang Xiaolong stood up.
He clapped his palms and brought everyone's attention to himself, before he said seriously: "I think Mr. Tang's analysis is correct, we did have a problem with our thinking before......
"But it doesn't matter, we are programmers, and we don't toss a certain program several times a day. Now that we've found a problem, let's fix it!"
"It just so happens that Mr. Tang is also here, let's brainstorm according to Mr. Tang's opinion just now...... Sum up the lessons and learn from them, and then move on!"
Tang He was surprised by Zhang Xiaolong.
Is this still the low-key, unspoken man he knows?
But that's right.
If Zhang Xiaolong is really that kind of stuffy gourd-like character, how can he talk in front of tens of thousands of people at the Pain News Developer Conference in the future!
Zhang Xiaolong's team began to review the previous work.
Those programs can continue to be retained, those programs must be streamlined or even deleted, and how should the new program framework be adjusted......
Tang He accompanied them to discuss the previous Foxmail web client, although he didn't know much about the dense programming language on the computer screen, but his thinking was not possessed by everyone, but it also provided Zhang Xiaolong with some ideas.
When the meeting was over, Tang He looked at the energetic Zhang Xiaolong and couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
There has never been a person who was born to know, the reason why Zhang Xiaolong was able to succeed is that he is outstanding, and this enthusiasm and perseverance alone are extremely admirable.
The hard work of so many days has been in vain, and if it is replaced by an ordinary person, I am afraid that it will be lost for several days, but looking at Zhang Xiaolong's state, he obviously did not suffer a little blow, on the contrary, because of his own prompts, he was even more eager to try and full of passion.
Originally, I was going to encourage myself......
It seems that it is not needed!
Thinking of this, Tang He suddenly felt that he should tell Zhang Xiaolong about an idea and wish that came to mind by chance at the previous stage.
It is estimated that Zhang Xiaolong will be excited about his idea again, right?
What could be more exciting for a tech freak than designing a new epoch-making product!
So Tang He came to Zhang Xiaolong's side.
At this time, Zhang Xiaolong's team had re-engaged in intense work.
According to Tang He's request, they must make an online email system by the end of February.
Time is tight, the task is heavy, and every second counts!
Zhang Xiaolong bent over and communicated with a programmer in front of the computer, and the weight of his body was all supported by his hands on the side of the computer desk.
Tang He patted him on the shoulder and whispered, "Manager Zhang, do you have time now?"
In view of the fact that there are not many personnel in the ideal country at present, Tang He directly adopted the flat management of later generations for the convenience of management.
Except for him who is barely the CEO, there is no other leadership in the ideal country, and the finance and administration are all concurrently held by the employees of Youpin Bookstore, and then the managers of each project team.
For example, Zhang Xiaolong's team, Zhang Xiaolong is the manager of the online mailbox project and the first person responsible.
"Mr. Tang, are you in a hurry?" Zhang Xiaolong straightened up and asked.
That's what I said!
Tang He smiled awkwardly, "Just a few words, you and I can come out for a while, soon." ”
Zhang Xiaolong nodded, and then lay down and explained a few words to the programmer, and then followed Tang He to Tang He's office.
Knowing that Zhang Xiaolong is the kind of person who doesn't like to be polite and goes straight, Tang He concisely and directly went to the point.
He told Zhang Xiaolong that the 3721 navigation website will develop a new free service product in the future.
He wants to link to a new secondary subpage on the homepage of the 3721 navigation website, which will be a social networking site, which is simply an alumni directory.
That's right, Tang He wants to build his own Facebook.
In fact, this idea was first born, but Tang He wanted to build a moat of the 3721 navigation website, trying to increase the user cohesion of the 3721 website through various free services, and then he thought of the alumni record.
Then when he thought of the alumni directory, he quickly thought of Facebook in his previous life.
In the past life, Facebook was able to become one of the top five Internet companies in the world, which shows how wonderful and bright its prospects are.
From this, Tang He decided to drink this oral soup himself.
Although still huddled in Bingzhou, Tang He has never regarded the ideal country as an Internet company in China, in his vision, the ideal country is a global Internet company, but the company's headquarters is in Huaxia.
Tang He has never intended to dominate his future just in this one-third of an acre of land in China.
Since you have been reborn, how can you not go out and talk and laugh with those people?
It's just that going to sea is not an easy thing to do.
In the previous life, was it awesome to dig out treasures?
However, such an Internet company that can enter the world's top 10 can still only make waves in Huaxia Internet, and cannot go abroad at all. As soon as you go abroad, you will see the light and die!
If you want to go abroad, you must have your own fist products!
Compared to the technology that Google needs, Facebook is undoubtedly much smaller.
As long as your alumni directory becomes the first similar website overseas, it will naturally accumulate seed users, and then snowball through seed users......
This is undoubtedly the safest and easiest way to achieve.
Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004, and there were similar websites in the United States before it, such as Myspace, so Facebook is not a creative product at all.
The reason why Facebook was able to grow into a behemoth step by step in the previous life was that Zuckerberg was able to iterate on Facebook steadily and quickly. And then along the way, I didn't make any big mistakes. The competitors of the same period were either not fast enough or not stable enough, and finally failed and dissipated.
From a certain point of view, Facebook's development path is very similar to the QQ of Pain.
However, if Tang He wants to realize his idea, he also needs to act as soon as possible.
Because according to his memory, the year after tomorrow, that is, in 1999, Chinaren alumni directory appeared in Huaxia, which was the most popular social networking site that year.
And with the consistent urine of Huaxia Internet companies, chinaren is also directly plagiarizing the same type of website in the United States, and then sinicization, it is likely that it is not its own innovation.
Therefore, Tang He must preemptively establish his own alumni directory before Chinaren or even similar websites in the United States to accumulate seed users.
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