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Instant messaging software does not have high technical barriers, as long as it reflects the huge value of Internet social networking, it will quickly attract fierce competition for brutal expansion.

Therefore, although the idea of ICQ has been tossed out for a period of time, it has been improving the basic links such as functional architecture and user experience, and at the same time integrating some technical achievements of Zheru R&D Center.

For example, multimedia types other than characters such as images are supported; Group chat capabilities beyond peer-to-peer; caching and roaming of server-side data, and more.

The main purpose of excellence is to raise the bar as high as possible, like a browser, and strive to be directly at the starting line, so that some interested people are discouraged.

Polishing in full swing until now, ICQ has finally entered the official operation state step by step from the stage of internal testing and invitation testing.

While the four children contributed to the technology, they also invested their pocket money - of course, compared to the venture capital pulled from their father, it can only be said to be a drop in the bucket.

Tang Huan, who is well aware of the development trajectory of instant messaging software, directly let ICQ enter the mode of burning a lot of money.

The first resource consumption is marketing, that is, trying to get people to form a consensus that ICQ numbers, like email addresses, are standard for users in the Internet age.

The other big head is the line and server, Guy ICQ target user group, the internal cooperation of the staff is a very important part, so it is necessary to have a stable quality of service - if the connection is dropped at every turn, or it is difficult to log in, then even if there are powerful functions, it will not be able to retain the hearts of users.

If you think about Yahoo's servers in student apartments last year, you can understand how high and professional ICQ started from.

In this case, the four children want to taste the taste of the CEO with their own intelligence and financial investment, purely because children don't know the sky, and their dad won't really mess around with them.

After these little guys sat down honestly, Tang Huan said with a straight face: "You have experienced a basically complete entrepreneurial process, so you can retire successfully, wait for the company to appreciate, and let your pocket money multiply several times." ”

Jinying, who had long expected that it would be a "unloading the mill and killing the donkey" ending, said reluctantly: "We are also important shareholders and have the responsibility to ask the CEO candidate." ”

Tang Huan couldn't help but say, "Okay, since you are so dedicated, then I will call someone here and let everyone take a look." ”

As a result, when Han Sining appeared with a smile, Sixiao was completely speechless.

Han Sining also said solemnly: "Four little nephew shareholders, just go to school with confidence, I will run ICQ well, and you will definitely be able to solve the problem of college tuition by yourself when the time comes." ”

Jin Ying tiptoed, patted Han Sining on the shoulder, and encouraged: "Uncle, you have to work hard, don't live up to everyone's expectations." In a few years, we'll make you CEO. ”

Tang Huan, who was drinking tea, couldn't hold back for a while and squirted out the water in his mouth.

He hurriedly waved his hand, "Since you are relieved, let's retreat quickly." Remember, you will only have limited technical access to ICQ from now on, so don't bother your uncle if you have nothing to do. ”

Han Sining was also a famous "child king" in the compound, but he couldn't help but be a little stunned by his eccentric nephews, so he took over and comforted: "You are too young now, it's okay to participate in technology development according to your interest, as for other aspects, it's not too late to contact after completing your college studies." ”

In this way, Jinying, Jinjie, Jinjia, and Jinyan completed their first journey of technology entrepreneurship and quit in an orderly manner.

"I'm really afraid that they will be endless." After Han Sining smiled and made a movement to wipe his sweat, he turned to a straight face and asked, "Brother, what are your specific profit targets for ICQ?" ”

"Profitability is not your primary goal." Tang Huan shook his head slightly, "The number of active users of ICQ is." ”

Han Sining scratched his head and said with a wry smile: "Then there must be a rough timetable; Otherwise, wouldn't it be very confusing. ”

"The most effective and effective way to use the Internet competition is free. If ICQ has the demon of making a profit too soon, it will soon be overwhelmed by other free competitors. Tang Huan carefully explained: "Only when the number of active users grows to a certain base, can ICQ try to make a profit through the scale effect of traffic." ”

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The following is the anti-D part.,Update it tomorrow.,Just ignore it.。

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Tang Huan, who personally participates in angel investment activities at least once a quarter, has long been familiar with the website information retrieval service "Jerry's_Guide_to_the_World_Wide_Web", that is, "Jerry's Internet Guide", which runs on a computer in a student apartment at Stanford University.

Its founders, David Ferro and Yang Zhiyuan, who are still graduate students, belong to private work behind the back of their bosses.

As Tang Huan predicted at last year's COMDEX Las Vegas Fall Show, the number of World Wide Web websites this year has increased by more than 10 times to more than 10,000 -- and if this trend continues, it will exceed 100,000 next year.

The World Wide Web, which has no licensing fees, has proliferated the number of websites, but it has also brought confusion to Internet users.

It is estimated that the bosses of David Ferro and Yang Zhiyuan were so generous that they had the leisure to compile an index of these sites for other Internet users to use, and then stepped on the drumbeat of the times by chance, and the number of hits was about to exceed 1 million due to their popularity.

As a result, "Jerry's Web Guide" was changed to the catchy "Yahoo", and in order to distinguish it from the registered trademark "Yahoo" for existing products such as barbecue sauce and knives, an exclamation point was added to the end and changed to "Yahoo! But I just forgot to spend $100 to sign up for "yahoo.com".

I have to say that smart people often have a hundred secrets, or when people are poor and short-sighted.

It's not hard to imagine that Yahoo now, in terms of technology, doesn't have much gold content, and is a software "database" that can be customized and can update the website's index information at any time.

It is no exaggeration to say that for Yahoo, who has only shown sharp corners of Xiaohe, the richest man with too much capital, whether he looks down on it or replaces it, there is nothing to say.

However, he still quietly watched this little seedling, growing up according to his instinct with natural ecology. Guy, Yahoo's great thing is that it inherently contains a new and viable mode of operation.

Of course, the richest man owns AOL, but the AOL's model does not represent the entire Internet and the World Wide Web.

Although AOL is not as qualified as its competitors in the online services field, it certainly has no problem being older than Yahoo. It came to the fore in 1983 when the ARPA network was divided into military and civilian parts, and TCP/IP began to become a universal protocol.

Due to the lack of resources in the era of Internet pioneering, the operation mode of such online services has been to try to provide all the Internet access content by themselves from the beginning, and to lease network lines on a large scale, or even build their own network lines, to become Internet_Service_Provider Internet service providers, that is, ISPs.

In contrast to AOL's "hard" model, which keeps users in circles, Yahoo represents a "soft" path to provide navigation capabilities for the portal because the Internet resources have begun to explode so much that users are at a loss for what to do.

Yahoo's main job is to set up servers, maintain its own "website database", and provide an attractive navigation page that takes up the entry point to the Internet with countless websites, without having to rent lines and control users to its own website.

To put it more lofty, or even politically ~ more correct, Yahoo represents freedom~ freedom and openness, and truly explains the spiritual essence of the Internet.

Of course, this does not mean that AOL is on the wrong path, but Yahoo is on the right path -- the different stages of the development of the Internet have contributed to different road trade-offs and operational characteristics.

Moreover, AOL still represents the mainstream at this stage - Yahoo's website navigation directory is in the front row, and it must have its place.

Under Tang Huan's guidance, AOL has embraced the World Wide Web many times faster than its competitors in online services, and it can be said that its path has always been "right".

But it is impossible to make AOL one step more "correct" and switch to the model of a portal. Not to mention that the portal model has just emerged, it is impossible to part with AOL's existing content resources alone. The online service model has been "correct" into its genes, and it can only fine-tune its own direction with the development of the Internet.

In this case, the value of the incomparably new Yahoo to the richest man is reflected - it can not only meet the layout of not putting eggs in one basket, but also greatly reduce the cost of mastering the portal model.

As for the value of David Ferro and Yang Zhiyuan, the two graduate students, they are similar to James Cameron, who is dedicated to filming "Titanic", and the persistence in his bones is not easy to find.

You must know that with the strength of only two people, it is a manual work to organize the information of thousands of websites into an indexing service, but it is definitely not possible without enthusiasm.

Tang Huan casually opened the Yahoo page on his computer, and couldn't help but smile to himself—the server in David Ferro and Yang Zhiyuan's apartment was probably overwhelmed and about to strike.

Meng Jing, the little cousin who was sorting out the information on the side, couldn't help but roll her eyes after seeing Tang Huan's scheming and complacent expression, "Brother, you have preemptively registered so many .com domain names, aren't you afraid that others will say that you will bully the small?" ”

"Silly girl, with these domain names, we can virtually try not to miss any fish in the layout." Tang Huan laughed, "When someone comes to inquire about the transfer of the domain name, it is equivalent to an event trigger on the program, and I don't know how much effort is saved." ”

Meng Jing nodded suddenly, "Then you have chanted Yahoo's name several times, are you planning to catch this fish that slipped through the net?" ”

"Yahoo isn't a fish that slipped through the net, it's a fish in my pool." Tang Huan replied playfully: "By the way, Yahoo's hits are about to exceed 1 million, it is estimated that David Ferro and Yang Zhiyuan, two poor graduate students, should also have an idea of the commercial value of the work they are interested in. After this busy time, arrange for everyone to come to a meeting. ”

"Got it." Meng Jing agreed, and then handed over a document, "This year's COMDEX Las Vegas Fall Show is really a rare competition, not to mention the addition of Sony's Playstation in the field of home TV game consoles, just Polestar, a browser software of Zheru Software Company, Polaris, has a new competitor." ”

Tang Huan looked at the document and said calmly: "This Netscape - Netscape I know that Jim Clark, who ran away from Silicon Valley Graphics, invested $4 million to establish a small start-up company - the browser market, there are not many of them, and there are not many of them. ”

"You've repeatedly stressed to us that the competition on the Internet platform is free of charge." Meng Jing reminded: "Compared to Polestar, which is a commercial software and is temporarily free in the name of promotion, now Netscape_Navigator Netscape Navigator has no hesitation to position itself as a shareware as soon as the official version of 1.0 is launched, which is really free, which is menacing and not comparable to other competitors." ”

"Polestar is technologically ahead and has a first-mover advantage in market share, so it's not afraid of Netscape_Navigator disruptions." Tang Huan waved his hand relaxedly, "Netscape_Navigator want to grab market share by relying on clean and free means, then I can also spend money to buy others to use Polestar through multiple software product package promotions and secret subsidies." ”