America: Starting with the acquisition of MGM

Chapter 166 Miss, you are embarrassed

"Boss, myspace suddenly went online at midnight today. I just searched it and I can already register.

On the phone, Fitz was making a report.

“How’s their website doing?”

Eric asked as he also opened Google search, and instantly found it at the top of the first page.

Needless to say, being able to be so fast and accurate must be a blessing to Google.

Clicking on the link, Eric found that the interface was slightly similar to Facebook.

Facebook’s biggest slogan is “Welcome to facebook!”

The slogan in the middle of the other party's screen is "Join myspace!"

"Boss, I haven't experienced it for a long time, but although I also use my email to apply for an account, MySpace implements anonymity."

"Users do not need any real information, let alone social security account numbers. They can even fill in their name, address, education, work, etc., and just put a nickname at the end."

Eric suddenly laughed out loud: "Anonymity, what do you think of such a stupid setting? If you don't use real-name system when playing social, who knows if there is a cat behind the computer."

It is true that the real-name system will bring the risk of user privacy leakage, but the opposite is authenticity, which is also the most important cornerstone of social networks.

Although anonymity reduces the risk of user information leakage, it will greatly increase other problems.

For example, a pervert pretends to be a minor to fish for friends, and then seduces and deceives the other person into committing a crime.

For example, engaging in online fraud, money laundering, selling contraband, etc. Anonymity can provide strong protection for these criminal activities.

Moreover, this kind of criminal behavior is like an infectious disease. Once a few people start doing it, it will often spawn a small group of people and then attract a large number of people.

It even introduces real-life criminal organizations, which seriously disrupts the user experience and atmosphere.

Whatever Eric can think of, Fitz can naturally think of.

But he did not laugh. Instead, he said in a serious tone: "Boss, although anonymity will cause a lot of problems, I don't think it is stupid."

"One thing that is more attractive than the real-name system is that it can attract users more effectively. After all, disguise is the nature of the Internet."

"A mailbox is just a mailbox that anyone can apply for, even a child of several years old can get it."

“Myspace is stronger than us in attracting users of all ages.”

Eric hummed: "It doesn't matter. Don't worry about this issue. The key is to provide a good user experience."

"What we have to do is normal updates, normal maintenance, and internal reviews. As long as we don't have problems ourselves, the other party will definitely have problems."

"Because they are chasers, their mentality is more impatient. If they are always in a weak position, they will inevitably make mistakes and make mistakes."

“What’s Facebook’s user data like now?”

After a pause, Fitz replied: "The number of registered users has reached about 17 million, with an increase of about 4 million since this month. The number of active users who log in frequently within a week is about 13 million."

“Currently, judging from user portraits, the main group is still college students, but it has also begun to expand to high school students and working-class people.”

"It's just that the growth rate cannot be compared with last month. The number of new users every week is now about 3%."

"The total number of visits last month was 900 million, and I expected it to exceed 500 million this month."

"However, with the competition from myspace, this figure may not be reached unless we take some actions."

"What do you want to do?" Eric asked.

"For example, the celebrity fan number selection event you told me, boss, was supposed to be held at the beginning of the month, but we have been waiting for so long, aren't we just waiting for myspace to go online?"

"In addition, I think we can start a promotion plan in major middle schools. The number of college student users is approaching saturation, and we need to expand into new territories."

"In addition to high schools, there are also major companies, organizations, and groups. I think Silicon Valley is a very suitable place for experiments."

"People here like to accept new things, especially the Internet. We can cooperate with companies in Silicon Valley for internal promotion."

"Boss, what do you think?"

As Fitz spoke, Eric considered the feasibility of his suggestion. After a few minutes, he said: "Let's start the middle school promotion first, and hold off on companies and groups."

"I think this is not a very good direction. People in our country like to separate life and work."

"Work is already very tiring and frustrating. No one likes to be friends with their boss or boss online."

"What if they arrange work for you remotely? The boss sends an update. As an employee, do you want to comment on it?"

"Others have commented and flattered you, but if you don't comment, will your boss have an opinion on you?"

"For example, Fitz, you planned to go to a concert and took sick leave to go there. After watching it, you were so excited that you wanted to post a post to show off, but when you think of your colleagues and boss among your friends, do you still dare to post it?"

Fitz suddenly choked up and smiled bitterly: "Definitely not. It is indeed better to separate life and work. What I thought was still too simple."

"Then let's do it this way. Is there anything else?"

"Um"

"If you speak stumblingly, it means there is something wrong. Just tell me."

"Boss, since Facebook went online, everyone has been very busy. And now that there are more and more users, there is increasing pressure for review, maintenance and technology development."

"Fifty people are a bit too few. When I'm really busy, I have to go to Howard and Mirren to borrow people, but I'm too embarrassed to keep asking. Can you recruit a group of new employees?"

"How many do you want to recruit?" Eric asked.

"I have calculated that if everything develops normally, seventy people will probably be enough to sustain it until the end of this year."

"Okay, let's do it then. You will be responsible for the specific tasks. I will go take a look at it then."

After hanging up the phone, Eric considered that it was indeed time to add more people to Facebook, mainly because he did not expect it to develop so quickly.

In addition, we have to compete with Myspace, and unstable logistics will definitely not work.

In fact, Eric has been waiting for James Murdoch to make a move since he met James Murdoch at Nicole's birthday party on June 20.

It's been nearly a month now, and it's finally here.

It seems that this kid has convinced Old Murdoch, but I don’t know how far Old Murdoch will support him.

For a traditional newspaper giant and a stubborn old man, especially Murdoch Sr., who has experienced the fiasco of the Internet, it is not easy to rekindle enthusiasm.

That was during the Internet bubble a few years ago. Yahoo created a market value twice that of News Corporation with less than 3% of News Corporation's revenue. This phenomenon stimulated the old Murdoch.

So he invested crazily in the Internet, spending more than one billion dollars to acquire websites such as WebMD, Juno, TheStreet and SixDegress.

The result was of course no surprise. Not long after I bought it, the Internet bubble burst.

Almost all of Murdoch Sr.'s investments were in vain. They were over one billion, not more than ten yuan, and he lost so much money that he vomited blood.

From then on, Murdoch Sr. never had a good word to say about the Internet. He even directly disbanded the Internet department of News Corporation and stopped playing it completely.

So even if it was his younger son's request this time, Eric estimated that Murdoch Sr. might not be willing to invest much money.

It's probably just like Dad giving himself 10 million to give himself a try, for example, giving James half a year to toss.

If you succeed, you will be a genius. If you fail, go back and listen to my arrangements for work.

And Eric believes that Murdoch Sr. will definitely set a goal for his son, and the goal must be based on Facebook.

If Facebook has 20 million users, he will not ask for less than 15 million.

After having a user base, Murdoch Sr. will definitely raise profit requirements due to his greedy character.

Assets that cannot be realized are equal to negative assets.

But for social networks, in the current economic environment, there is only one way to make money, and that is advertising.

It just so happens that users hate ads the most. Once too many ads are inserted when the user base is still unstable, this approach is the same as driving users away in disguise.

Eric had already set a policy before starting Facebook. He would not accept advertising for a year. Even if he didn't make a penny, he had to burn money first to stabilize users.

When user stickiness increases and Facebook's functions are perfected, you won't be able to leave even if you want to.

The cost of silence is too great, and then it’s time to cut the leeks.

Just when Eric decided on Facebook's next development plan, myspace also began large-scale promotion.

It also has strong financial support, and myspace’s promotion strategy is similar to Facebook’s.

The first is the TV commercial. As a father-in-law, the Fox Group is on full steam.

News networks, television networks, and radio networks insert recurring advertisements in various time periods.

"Join myspace!"

"Join myspace!"

"Join myspace!"

As long as they are Fox's audience, they have all been brainwashed by this advertisement.

Then came online promotion. Yahoo, Google, MSN, and major forums all began to engage in land-washing marketing.

Then came the offline promotion. Myspace did not choose major universities, perhaps because it felt that those places were already occupied by Facebook.

It chose the plan that Eric gave up and cooperated with major companies and groups to promote it.

At the same time, it also hired a large number of people to frequent bars and nightclubs in major cities, choosing to recruit DJs, musicians, spiritual girls, etc. to join.

This group of people can play well and has a certain number of fans. More importantly, music is currently Facebook's weak point.

Most of the celebrities gathered on Facebook are film and television actors, and music is also included, but the proportion is relatively small.

Of course, myspace has not let go of the film and television industry. MGM can mobilize its own connections, and Fox is only strong but not weak.

So in just two days over the weekend, a large number of Hollywood actors opened MySpace accounts.

Many of them are duplicates of Facebook, after all, there are only so many big-name actors that the audience is familiar with.

The actors were also very helpless. They were all acquaintances with the big bosses, so they had to give face to both sides, and they didn't dare to offend anyone.

For example, the more active Orlando Bloom, Brad Pitt, Keanu Reeves, Anne Hathaway, etc. Eric certainly cannot blame others for this kind of thing.

Nicole even called him specifically to ask him what to do, and Eric also let her go. It was a meaningful sentence, and she and James Murdoch were also considered acquaintances.

However, although celebrities will give face to both parties, who can retain them in the future depends on their own abilities.

At the same time, half a month later, Facebook users once again received a system tweet that an official event would be held.

"Pick up the charts for your favorite stars!"

Facebook will launch a ten-day ranking event to determine who is the most popular person.

The rules are simple, the ranking is based on the number of fans, and the star who ranks first in the end can get a golden logo after his nickname.

Those ranked second to fifth have silver logos, and those ranking sixth to tenth have copper logos.

Of course, Facebook also bought advertising space, and there was also overwhelming publicity on the Internet, competing with Myspace's advertising.

Time came to Monday. After breakfast, Eric drove to the set. Today is the day when "House of Cards" starts filming.

Eric had just parked his car when a white Land Rover suddenly got into the parking space next to him.

He was already very familiar with this car, and of course it was the beautiful Theron.

After getting out of the car and walking to the side of the Land Rover, Eric opened the door and stretched out his hand, revealing two tight and beautiful legs wearing flat sandals.

Theron smiled sweetly and came down holding Eric's hand.

boom!

The car door closed, and Theron rolled his eyes at him: "Don't let go yet, I'm not a disabled person."

"Don't let go!"

Eric said and squeezed hard, and Theron's expression suddenly became tangled.

"Don't be like this, Eric, you know I have a boyfriend, this is not good."

Eric didn't hear what she was saying at all. He leaned his head closer and said in Theron's ear: "Miss, you are embarrassed."

Theron's breathing suddenly became heavy, and he pulled his hand out with all his strength, glared at Eric and left in a hurry.

When she came to the studio, she calmed down her racing heart and sighed again for some reason.

Patty Jenkins looked over curiously: "What's wrong Theron? Why are you sighing?"

"There is no director. The filming is almost over."

"Well, there are only the last few scenes left. We will try to wrap them up within two days. Let's go put on makeup."

Theron walked to the dressing room with an ooh, and couldn't help but sigh again.

"The filming of "The Devil Wears Prada" is about to end. I'm afraid we won't have a suitable reason to meet again. The script of "Inception" hasn't been released yet. You can't use this as an excuse."

She muttered in her heart, feeling a little disappointed.

"This bastard is such a hateful guy. He bullies me and seduce me every time. He is so bad. Why is he so handsome and outstanding?"

"Charlize Theron, please wake up. You have a boyfriend. Eric Cooper is a playboy. He has been rumored to have affairs with Nicole Kidman, Gal Gadot, and the Olsen sisters. You guys Not suitable."

"Yes, we are not suitable. I can't betray Stuart. He is very good to me. Although he likes to lose his temper sometimes and we will quarrel, I can't be the betrayer."

The makeup artist applied makeup to Theron, while Theron stared blankly ahead.

In my mind, the figures of Eric and Stuart kept intertwining and changing.

Maybe she didn't know when she started, and she had fallen into it physically and mentally.

well!