On the Harvard campus during this period, Mark Zuckerberg was undoubtedly a 'man-in-the-storm' figure in the limelight. Although basically for Zuckerberg it was all negative reviews of the news. Not long ago, the Harvard Crimson rebuked Zuckerberg for his facemashing behavior some time ago -- pandering to the most vulgar atmosphere of Harvard students. However, they also spoke eloquently about the charm of the program and the creativity of the programmers who created Facemash. They conclude their story by suggesting that one can create a facemash, and there's no reason why a programmer can't make an online portrait album.

Not long after the report was published, the day Xia Ruxuan arrived in Boston, Zuckerberg paid $35 online to the domain name company Register to register for a year of domain name use for FriendBook.

Then he spent the whole night revising the social networking site, and when Zuckerberg appeared in front of Xia Ruxuan early the next morning with dark circles under his eyes and missed the whole morning's class, and introduced him to this unrecognizable website, Xia Ruxuan's calm face was hidden in shock.

This is undoubtedly a major overhaul, Xia Ruxuan has not been in contact with the Internet world in the United States, so he did not comment on it. He just looked at Zuckerberg's childish face with a bit of arrogance and introduced the new website, "Xia, I have to say, some of your ideas are very good. But now is not suitable for this site, friendbook is not the first social network for college students, club-nexus, which originated at Stanford University the year before last, is the originator of the social network for college students. ”

Zuckerberg paused for a moment and presented the revised and more concise main page in front of Xia Ruxuan, "It took them six weeks to have one-tenth of the active users of Stanford University students. However, their flare-up period was not too long, and they began to level off after just a few weeks. You know why? Zuckerberg paused, "The services it provides are too complex, and his founder is a genius programmer who has added every interesting feature imaginable, so that the use of the site becomes a lot more complicated, and the user's attention is so focused on the features that it doesn't feel like there are a lot of people on the site with you - combining your ideas and my considerations, at this stage I have an extremely streamlined positioning of our friendbook, Even if all users only need to do one thing in the beginning, which is to invite more friends. In this way, this single-mindedness will be a great impetus for the development of the website! ”

"I also once did a site on campus called course-match, where any Harvard student could see who had chosen a course to determine your schedule. And I've added this feature to my friendbook. The previous course was successful in damaging my computer's hard drive and causing me to lose a lot of data; The subsequent facemash took up data from Harvard's web storage site, and I was disciplined by the university. This time it's not a small pastime, you take a look at the website first, I'm going to rent a server on the Internet to store our website information. ”

Xia Ruxuan suddenly understood the absolute gap between the Internet development of the two countries, and it would be impossible to attract enough users if there were not enough interesting gadgets and mini-games in China. At Harvard, no one is going to be the hardcore of this site for a little game of 'stealing vegetables from the farm', and when the site fades away from all flashy appearances, it is the most concise and straightforward thing to present to people. Focusing on the existence of individual user information only as a substitute for real-life portrait albums - in the United States, where the Internet is more developed, it seems to be particularly important that digital photographs have a space for public distribution, and this is the first wave of staples at Harvard.

He didn't give Zuckerberg too many constraints, but simply looked at it and agreed to Zuckerberg's proposal, this website written by Xia Ruxuan is now more and more like the once mature Facebook, and from this day on, there will be less of a discussion focus called Facebook in this world, replaced by friendbook.

For example, Facebook, the term for the Internet, was actually owned by another website that was launched at Harvard a few months ago, and in '08, the founder of that website accused Zuckerberg of stealing his idea, and then the company where the Facebook website worked settled with him for an undisclosed fee. And these troubles, including the later prosecution of the twins, Xia Ruxuan didn't want them to happen again.

That night, in the H33 dormitory of Kirkland's dormitory, Xia Ruxuan participated in Zuckerberg's celebration of a mere 'probation' departure, he bought a bottle of Dom Pérignon Champagne King outside, and happily shared the wine with his neighbors. At the same time, he met the roommates who later became Zuckerberg's powerful assistants.

Zuckerberg took advantage of such a moment to announce that he had joined a new work project, and the neighbors did not pay as much attention to it as Xia Ruxuan imagined. Only then did he suddenly realize that this was Harvard, in the suite of the H33 dormitory, and the superiority of Harvard students in the Ivy League college alliance was vividly displayed. No one paid attention to the yellow-skinned Asian teenager.

What happens here may seem extraordinary in other places, but entering a new project here is as common as saying a word to dinner, and he is not the only entrepreneur who works hard for his career in his dorm. At Harvard, this is something that is not worth mentioning, and there are talented people in every hall.

Xia Ruxuan lowered his head and drank champagne, listening to them discuss one professional surname after another, quietly without saying a word. He knew it wouldn't be a few days before FriendBook would make waves on the Harvard campus.

Over the next two or three days, Zuckerberg began to work on several online projects himself. After the scandal that Facemash had brought him to notoriety, it was his chance to change his public image, and he spent half a day completing some of the details of the Black Women's Association's website, and another seven or eight hours completing the outline of their website at the request of the Winklevoss twins, and after some discussion, the Winklavoss brothers changed the name of the website from the original theFacebook to Harvard-Connection.

It's just that no matter what the name is, it has nothing to do with Zuckerberg. Xia Ruxuan once avoided a troublesome lawsuit for Zuckerberg according to his vision. Historically, Zuckerberg was involved in the twins' project to delay the completion of the other website, while making his own website, which led to the later prosecution of plagiarism.

However, this time, under Xia Ruxuan's instructions, Zuckerberg simply spent a day to complete those Harvard networks that were just child's play for him, and the two had little to do with each other, the Harvard networks were born purely for parties, and their website plans to focus on making the clubs that organize activities discount registered users.

In this way, future conflicts are completely avoided. Zuckerberg then released a public apology letter on the Harvard network, apologizing to all the girls who had been affected by Facemash.

Regardless of whether those girls accept it or not, at least such a gesture and Zuckerberg's initiative to clean his image have slightly enhanced his disgraceful reputation on the cusp. And all this...... It was just a brew made by Xia Ruxuan and Zuckerberg together, and when all the preparations were completed, it was the evening of the third day when Xia Ruxuan came to Boston.

Zuckerberg and Xia Ruxuan, who were sitting in the café, worked together to press the link button to pay for the server.

It was November 30, 2003. It is an ordinary worship that does not seem to have anything extraordinary. Such a brand-new Friendbook, which is completely different from history, was officially launched more than two months ahead of schedule in place of Facebook. Xia Ruxuan quickly saw Zuckerberg's "value".

Based on his position on the cusp of Harvard, and the gadgets he's made that have taken the Harvard campus by storm, everyone is interested enough in the new project of this talented coding teenager. This time it is important to rebuild your reputation after the anger caused by the previous time, and the modified friendbook website is not much higher than the blueprint 'friend network' in the domestic part, and the ** system is also fundamentally different from the previous friendster and myspace websites on the American Internet.

The website with Zuckerberg's title spread quickly, and Zuckerberg immediately sent a mass email to all students on the Kirkland dormitory mailing list, and dozens of people registered in the 300-person dormitory building in a blink of an eye.

The invitation system set up inside the website made the number of registrants reach 300 at noon on the second day after the website was launched. I don't know how many times faster than the previous unfamous spread of the friend network in Sunan University.

And as the mastermind behind everything, all Xia Ruxuan has to do is wait.

Mark Zuckerberg's name was destined to become the most frequent name in the Harvard Crimson during this period, and he was once again told to be interviewed by the newspaper on the third day after the site went live. This interview was published along with his apology, which was undoubtedly another advertisement for Friendbook. And Zuckerberg's honest attitude in the interview also softened the newspaper's own rhetoric.

"Use the gimmick of quelling the turmoil to create a new round of controversy." Zuckerberg drew tables and charts of FriendBook's user growth data on the whiteboard in Kirkland's H33 dormitory, holding the latest issue of Harvard's Crimson Newspaper in his hand, turning to face Xia Ruxuan and rubbing his hands excitedly, "Such a promotion method is really fantastic." ”

The data on the whiteboard shows that on this latest date, there were 417 new registered users of the site.

"At Harvard we only have ten to twelve days, and after that...... We're going to be targeting other colleges and universities to get the Friendbook storm sweeping across the Ivy League before the long Christmas break! Xia Ruxuan supported his chin with both hands, and said in a deep voice with a confident smile on his face.

(To be continued)