"The software was first popular on individual university campuses in China, and then gradually found its way into the regional administrations of individual provinces in China. From the beginning of October last year to now, in just over three months, our users have grown from a mere four digits at the beginning to 35 million now, of course, this is inseparable from my investors who spend a lot of money on marketing, but the most important thing is that this social software does have its unique appeal. After all, whether in China, the United States, or other parts of the universe, all evil capitalists are unprofitable and cannot afford to be early, so if Weibo doesn't work, my investors will tell me to get out of here. ”

Qin Feng's loud and generous voice echoed in the empty studio.

The audience in the audience smiled knowingly, and Qin Feng's fluent "performative English" quickly made the foreigners on the scene accept him.

After a little joke that was not salty or light, Qin Feng continued: "Just a few days ago, my investor, who is my current boss, suddenly called me and said that I should come to the United States. I thought he was going to send me money again, so I was so happy to be here. But when he came, he told me that now we have invested in a social networking site called Facebook in the United States, and let me study it. I didn't hear it clearly, and it became the Chinese word for 'must die'. Yes, the Chinese transliteration of facekook is 'must die', and it is not possible to die. I asked my investor, and I said, boss, why should we invest in a website that has to die. My boss said no, not only is this site not going to die, but it is destined to shine with the vitality and brilliance that will catch the world's attention in the near future. Then he opened me up to the website that had to die.

I researched for about 10 minutes and found that Facebook and our Weibo were at least 80% similar in terms of creativity and functionality, if not 90%, and then I asked my boss when Facebook was launched. My boss told me it was in 2004. I'm glad to hear this answer, because we are only a year behind Facebook, which shows that the economic development level of China and the United States is not far apart, and the plan we proposed decades ago to 'catch up with the United States and the United States' is just around the corner." ”

Chi Guoguo's self-blackening caused a burst of laughter from the audience.

Even the overseas Chinese below couldn't help grinning.

Of course, there are also a few people with conservative political tendencies, who feel that Qin Feng is simply licking the chrysanthemums of the Americans, and as soon as Qin Feng's words fell, he left the table angrily.

Qin Feng knew that some people were particularly "patriotic", so he was not surprised by this.

He paused, flipped through a speech card indifferently, glanced at it, and the following content was clearly connected: "There may be many people who doubt whether my Weibo has plagiarized Facebook's ideas, and at this point, I can't argue with it, and I can't give evidence that I didn't plagiarize." But I have something else to say beyond this question.

When I first heard such a question, I thought of the history of human civilization.

As I said earlier, I am from China.

In the past, when we studied history in China, we always said that history had a striking similarity. This point, judging from the development of human history in the East and the West, does have a lot of evidence to confirm this view.

More than 2,000 years ago, when there were a large number of masters such as Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, etc., there were also a large number of figures in China such as Laozi, Confucius, Mozi, etc., who laid the foundation for the development of Chinese civilization. In modern times, with the development of Western scientific and technological theories, a large number of outstanding and great scientists like Newton, Faraday and even Einstein emerged in the Western world around the 18th century, while in China, there were a large number of literary and historical experts who pursued truth and advocated science. Finally, when Amazon, Google, and MSN appeared in the United States, and Alibaba was born, Baidu, and QQ were born in China, and after a student named Zuckerberg made Facebook in his college dorm room the year before, there was also a student in China, who was himself, who relied on braggadocio to start Weibo with his stupid and bold boss.

Guys, do you know what I'm thinking right now? I'm wondering if in a few years, in the school where I used to go, they're going to have my portrait on the wall. To my left is Confucius, to my right is Albert Einstein, and not far away, there are Mao Zedong and Stalin. ”

At one point, the audience at the bottom chuckled.

Qin Feng said non-stop: "Actually, I'm not joking, because I have a theoretical basis for saying this. Because social tools like Weibo and Facebook do have the power to change the development process of human civilization. Let's move on to the history of human development.

We all know that the origin of human civilization should be marked by words. The advent of writing has enabled our information exchange and knowledge to be transmitted and accumulated from generation to generation. In fact, the rapid development of human civilization is directly related to the improvement of information exchange channels. First the text, then the paper that carries the text, then the printing press. However, until this point, there are still spatial barriers to the exchange of information between people.

If some information wants to circulate between the East and the West, it needs to pay a lot of manpower, rely on a variety of transportation modes, and constantly reduce the distance in space to finally get from one end to the other, but even so, many times, the information will still be lost in the middle. This situation lasted until the 19th century, when mankind invented the telegraph, telephone, radio, and television, and information dissemination changed from space as a carrier to a time carrier. So now, when the home computer realizes the popularization of globalization, when Internet communication is becoming the mainstream communication mode of all mankind, what kind of direction will our information dissemination develop in the future, and what will it become in the future?

My understanding is that in the future, information dissemination will inevitably develop in the direction of intelligence, personalization, entertainment and functionality. ”

Speaking of which, the projection screen behind Qin Feng finally came in handy.

The four words intelligent, personalized, entertaining, and functional have greatly appeared on the projection.

The faces of the audience also showed a look of serious thinking.

Qin Feng flipped through the two cards again, looked at them, and continued: "These four development directions will be very boring to explain, but I can give a simple example to illustrate these four points at the same time.

We have a social game on Weibo called Happy Farm, and the main game content is to steal vegetables. Everyone has their own vegetable garden where you can grow vegetables and when the crops are ripe, you can harvest them for money, but if you have a slow hand, you may be stolen by your other friends who play this game, and you can also steal their vegetables in the same way. Of course, stealing is not correct, so every vegetable garden has its own means of preventing theft, and if the person who steals the vegetables is caught, he will be punished accordingly. This is a very educational game, because we set up the guard dogs in the vegetable garden, which are very lethal, and if they are bitten, they will not be able to operate the game for many days, unless they buy the rabies vaccine provided by the game, which is very expensive in the game, and buying a shot can be worth a player's game currency income for at least three or four days in the game.

But that's not the point, the point is that I know there was an old Chinese man the other day, because this game avoided bankruptcy.

Here's the thing, this old man is in his 60s, a farmer in a coastal city in China, who usually grows various fruits as his main source of livelihood. Because he is not particularly busy with his work, this old man played our game of stealing vegetables in his free time. As we all know, there are a lot of people in China who play the game of stealing vegetables, most of them are college students, but there are also many working-class people, such as classrooms, doctors, company employees, drivers, lawyers, and people of various professions. Because this old man spends a lot of time in the game, he has also met many friends, follows each other on Weibo, and often communicates on Weibo.

Before the Chinese New Year this year, the old man encountered a da|numb|annoyance.

He planted 100 acres of garlic, and had already negotiated with the receiver to sell all the garlic to him before the Spring Festival at a price about 10% higher than the cost price. But a few days before the Spring Festival, the consignee had a car accident and needed a large sum of money to pay for the surgery and hospitalization, and this verbal contract, of course, could not be honored. And at the same time, in the city where the old man is located, the supply of garlic in the market has exceeded demand, no matter how he lowers the price, no one is willing to come to collect his garlic even for free, because there is so much garlic, and transportation is also a big cost. The old man has borrowed money from many relatives in order to grow these 100 acres of garlic, so if he can't sell these garlic, the old man will not only face huge property losses, but also owe several debts, and it is very difficult for him to pay off this money at his age.

At that time, the old man had already thought about suicide, but fortunately his children stopped him in time.

Just when the old man had nothing to love, he told a friend of his in the Weibo game about it. His friend told him that he could help a little, but that to digest so much garlic, he had to rely on more people. The old man's friends in the game guided him to go to the farmland to take pictures of those garlic, and asked the old man to find the staff of some local grassroots government agencies to take more than ten seconds of video evidence for him. In this way, when this incident and all the related pictures and videos were uploaded to the old man's Weibo, in less than 24 hours, the message was forwarded tens of thousands of times. Before the Spring Festival, about 80% of the garlic in the old man's field was sold, which not only saved the cost, but also made a lot of money. He gave us all the rest of the garlic on Weibo, and we are currently contacting an e-commerce company in China called Alibaba to try to pull these garlic to Antarctica and sell it to penguins, because garlic is very hot and can help penguins survive the winter. ”

The nonsensical content of the spoof caused a burst of laughter from the audience.

Qin Feng's voice didn't stop, and continued to play with the treasure: "It doesn't matter if the penguins in Antarctica don't want it, the biggest QQ communication software in China is also called penguins, if the penguins in Antarctica don't want it, we will sell the garlic to QQ, anyway, there are many members of QQ, after they take over these garlic, they can also send garlic out in the name of charity through member recharge activities." ”

The audience applauded.

Qin Feng stopped and smiled, and waited for the applause to pass before continuing: "I don't know if you have experienced the future social model of intelligence, personalization, entertainment, and functionality from the example I just had. But I think you can see at least three things from the example just now: first, the old man reconstructed and expanded his social circle by playing games on social software; second, the social circle he built does have practical economic significance and life significance; third, other people can also use the old man's Weibo to determine his identity and give help. Therefore, on the basis of this incident, we have made a new plan for the future development of Weibo.com, which is the four words I have repeatedly talked about.

First, intelligent positioning. In the future, when we accumulate enough data, we will be able to clearly locate and develop the ancillary functions of social software, so that each group can find their own social mode. It can be a game of stealing vegetables, a game of fishing, or a variety of other modes besides the game.

The second is personalized positioning. For example, if one day our software is equipped with an ordering system, or if it is bundled with an online ordering system, then if our users are looking for lunch through the social software, our software can give the option that he has consumption records or search records at the top of his search page, as well as other similar options. Each user searches for the most suitable for him, and everyone uses the same search tool, but can find different search results, so instead of looking for friends, you can also find like-minded interests, which is the primary manifestation of personalized socialization.

The third is the entertainment function. We want to try to make our online social interaction as easy as possible, everyone can have as many choices as possible, you can make friends by playing games on this app, you can also choose to record a song of your own voice and put it on, if you sing hard, then you may get a friend who is like you, if you sing like Britney, then you don't want to be friends with Britney, after all, Weibo's face is not so big, and I think Britney should prefer Facebook to Weibo。

And finally, functional positioning. As I just said, let social software carry the food ordering function, in fact, we can not only take the food ordering function, as long as the bank is willing, we can also carry the payment function, as long as the government agency agrees, we can also carry the public service function, as long as the taxi company is willing, we can also carry the online car-hailing function. As long as we need it, we will turn social software into an all-in-one tool that goes beyond social functions.

Our original intention of making this website is to hope that everything we say and do on social networking sites in the future is to bring happiness, convenience and opportunities to life, and at the same time, every information we receive can provide us with guidance, help and enjoyment.

I hope that all of the features I've mentioned above will be implemented within 10 years.

I hope that in ten years, a social software with excellent performance will not only be your social tools and communication tools, but also your life tools and personal platforms, and it will be the extension of your social personality in the virtual space, which is your network ID card.

It's a huge undertaking that requires the participation of all people in the world.

I know that the United States is already moving and that it is moving fast, and that China, the world's most populous country, is trying to catch up. And I'm glad that two of the smartest, most handsome, and youngest social software entrepreneurs in China and the United States have come together. Weibo and Facebook are about to reach a comprehensive cooperation agreement, and I sincerely suggest that when Weibo and Facebook go public in the United States, you can take out all the money in the bank and buy our shares. Facebook and Weibo will definitely bring surprises beyond your imagination. Feed your mother three pills. ”

When the words fell, the audience instantly burst into warm applause.

Many people even stood up and applauded, obviously very surprised by Qin Feng's speech.

Qin Feng bowed slightly politely, turned around and stepped off the stage.

Guan Chaohui was behind the stage, and as soon as Qin Feng walked up to her, Guan Chaohui slapped Qin Feng's arm twice, his eyes were full of 120 percent satisfaction, and he praised without hesitation: "Good! CCTV is at this level!"