my return 2002

Chapter 287 Facebook
Los Angeles Airport, USA.

Li Xuelin was looking around on tiptoe, there was no way, most of the Americans were taller, he was afraid that he would miss Shen Lang in the crowd.

Finally, Li Xuelin found the target in the crowd.

"Mr. Shen, you are here." Li Xuelin gave Shen Lang a bear hug directly.

Shen Lang joked with a smile: "It seems that you have adapted quickly here, and the greetings are all American style."

Only then did Li Xuelin let go of Shen Lang, and patted his belly complaining: "Don't talk about getting used to it, look at how fat I am now, I guess my family won't recognize me when I go back."

Shen Lang looked at him, and he was indeed much fatter than when he saw him last year.

"Good guy, what did you eat this year? At least you gained twenty catties?"

Li Xuelin smiled wryly: "More than that, I gained 23 catties. The food in this country is high in calories and sugar. Our company's editors from the mainland have also gained a lot of weight. Is this considered a work-related injury? Is there any compensation?"

Shen Lang scolded with a smile: "Forget it, I will get you a fitness card later, and you will be limited to one hour of exercise every day, and one dollar will be deducted for one minute less."

"Ah~~~"

Liu Shishi has been listening from the sidelines, secretly amused.

Only then did Li Xuelin notice Liu Shishi, and asked in an ambiguous tone: "Mr. Shen, who is this beauty?"

Shen Lang introduced: "Oh, Liu Shishi, an actor from Tangren Film and Television, came to Los Angeles for a photo shoot this time."

"Hello." Liu Shishi greeted.

"Hello, Ms. Liu, well, let me take you back to the hotel to rest."

Li Xuelin was not stupid, and quickly took the suitcase from Liu Shishi's hand. Liu Shishi hesitated for a while, but still did not refuse, and followed.

After getting in the car, Shen Lang asked Li Xuelin.

"How is the current business development of Star International?"

Li Xuelin's chubby face was full of arrogance: "Hey, Star International just entered the TOP50 North American website last month. The number of registered users has exceeded 50 million, and the number of daily visits has exceeded [-]."

This kind of achievement is nothing in China. After all, none of the company’s projects is ranked among the top ones, but it is completely different in North America. It is quite remarkable to be able to achieve such achievements in such a short period of time across cultural differences. easy.

Shen Lang nodded in satisfaction, and then asked again: "Has the problem of translation speed been solved now?"

"It has almost been resolved. We have now recruited nearly [-] foreign students as part-time translators. We can basically move to Star International within a period of time." Li Xuelin replied.

Liu Shishi on the side couldn't understand business matters, but she was a little surprised to hear that Li Xuelin had hired [-] foreign students as translators.

Shen Lang pondered for a moment and said, "How is the company's revenue now?"

"Well, the website has always adopted a free model before, mainly relying on user rewards and advertising revenue. It just broke even last month. We are doing market research, and the next step is to establish a VIP reading system."

In the past year, Star International has almost lost money, and it has lost almost 1000 million US dollars. That is to say, Shen Lang has been subsidizing it, and it would have been impossible to replace it with other companies.

Shen Lang nodded: "Well, the market research must be done in detail. Between making money and users, I would rather choose the latter."

Don't think that there is no piracy in the United States. In fact, the problem of piracy in the United States is not lighter than that in China, but relatively speaking, the proportion of user payments is slightly higher.

But it also needs to be divided into industries. It’s really hard to say about emerging industries such as online writing.

Just as he was talking, he had already arrived at the hotel. After completing the check-in procedures, Shen Lang and Liu Shishi came to the hotel room.

"Miss Liu, are you satisfied? If not, you can change the hotel." Li Xuelin asked earnestly.

Liu Shishi showed a polite smile: "Satisfied, please trouble Mr. Li."

"Uh, that, Mr. Shen, Ms. Liu, take a rest in the hotel for jet lag first, and then I'll go back first." Li Xuelin ran away as soon as he said that, he had already done enough with this light bulb.

Just as Liu Shishi was about to close the door, Shen Lang suddenly stopped her.

"If Ms. Liu has nothing to do and needs to go out, it's best to lock the door. If there's a knock on the door, it's best to confirm your identity before opening. This place is no better than in China. You should be careful in everything. You can call me at any time if you need anything. Telephone."

Being in a foreign country, Liu Shishi was a little nervous at first, and her English is not very good, after listening to Shen Lang's words, she couldn't help but feel a little warm in her heart.

"Well, thank you."

The smile bloomed on Liu Shishi's face, it was no longer the polite smirk before, coupled with her hibiscus-like cheeks, it was charming.

As if sensing Shen Lang's fiery gaze, Liu Shishi closed the door in a panic, and then let out a sigh of relief.

Qianying was blocked by the door, and Shen Lang could only regretfully return to his room.

A few days later, Shen Lang knocked on the door of Liu Shishi's room, and saw that she was still awake, it was obvious that the jet lag hadn't reversed yet.

"Let's go to the restaurant to have some breakfast first, and then Ms. Liu can go back to sleep. It's best to set an alarm clock and sleep for two or three hours. Otherwise, she will suffer from insomnia again at night."

Liu Shishi nodded while yawning: "Well, Mr. Shen, please wait a moment, I'll go change clothes first."

When women talk about changing clothes, don't expect them to really just change clothes. About a quarter of an hour later, Liu Shishi appeared in front of Shen Lang with a completely new look.

Shen Lang looked around Liu Shishi pretending to frown.

Liu Shishi asked suspiciously: "Mr. Shen, is there something wrong?"

"There's nothing wrong with it, I just felt that your state just now was more real." Shen Lang shrugged.

Liu Shishi nuzzled: "It's not uncommon for a girl to dress herself up when she goes out."

"You, the burden of being an idol is too heavy. In fact, you can relax here. No one knows you anyway." Shen Lang teased.

Liu Shishi muttered: "Few people in China know me."

The two talked and laughed and came to the restaurant without knowing it. Through this period of contact, Liu Shishi is not so familiar with Shen Lang, and the communication becomes more and more natural.

"By the way, your company's photography team is here today, should I ask Li Xuelin to send someone to pick it up?" Shen Lang asked while gnawing on a sandwich.

Liu Shishi shook his head: "Don't worry, Mr. Cai has already made arrangements for them."

On the one hand, due to limited funds, it was impossible to book such a good hotel for the photography team. On the other hand, Cai Yinong did not want these people to disturb Liu Shishi and Shen Lang.

"Okay, that means you don't have work today, is there any place you want to go? I'll make arrangements." Shen Lang said.

Liu Shishi thought for a while: "How about the Griffith Observatory?"

Shen Lang shrugged: "I thought you would rather go to Hollywood."

"When I was a little girl, I really wanted to go. Since I started acting, my fantasy has been shattered." Liu Shishi wrinkled his nose.

Shen Lang couldn't help laughing: "It's like you're not a little girl now."

"When you're an adult, you're no longer a little girl." Liu Shishi said confidently.

"Okay, then you can go back to sleep later, let's have dinner in the afternoon, then go to the Griffith Observatory, watch the sunset and then watch the night view, it should be a beautiful thing." Shen Lang suggested.

Liu Shishi nodded, and then asked: "What about you? Don't you have jet lag?"

"I'm fine, and I have to go to work, I have some things to deal with."

Shen Lang's words made Liu Shishi a little embarrassed: "Will it trouble you too much?"

"It's not troublesome, but I've never been to the Observatory before, so I just took this opportunity to see and see, and there is no overtime in the United States at night, even if I want to squeeze the employees, they won't give me this opportunity. "Shen Lang pretended to be helpless and spread his hands.

Liu Shishi nuzzled: "Sure enough, all the bosses in the world think about how to squeeze us hardworking people every day."

Shen Lang:.
Seeing Shen Lang's speechless expression, Liu Shishi couldn't help covering his mouth and chuckling, as if he had succeeded in a prank.

"Okay, go back and rest first, I'm going to the company first." Shen Lang glanced at the time.

Back in the room, Liu Shishi covered his stomach with a bitter face: "It's over, I just patronized chatting, I'm too full."

Coming to Star International again, Shen Lang saw some familiar faces, and some he had never seen before. They should be new recruits after the business expansion.

When he came to Li Xuelin's office, Shen Lang didn't exchange too many greetings, but said directly.

"How is the localization of YY Farm going?"

Li Xuelin directly called a foreigner programmer, and the programmer pushed the notebook in front of Shen Lang, and then began to demonstrate.

Shen Lang looked at it. Compared with YY Farm, this version of the farm has not only done English translation, but also made some content changes. For example, the stickers of vegetables have been replaced with those sold in American supermarkets, and farmers have been added. When farming and harvesting, there will be dynamics of farmers working.

Everything else is fine, but there is one thing that makes Shen Lang quite speechless. The roles of farmers include not only white farmers, but also black farmers, as well as female farmers.

Li Xuelin explained in Chinese: "There is no way, this is the country of the United States, and political correctness prevails. If we don't want to be said to be racially discriminatory, we must do this."

"Then add the role of an Asian farmer." Shen Lang said angrily.

The foreigner programmer went out after the demonstration, Shen Lang pondered for a moment and said to Li Xuelin.

"Have you thought about how to promote it?"

Li Xuelin said: "The reason why YY Farm became popular is largely due to YY's friend resources. If we want to reproduce the success of YY Farm in the United States, we need to give it a certain social attribute."

"So we really don't have many choices, either Microsoft or Yahoo."

Shen Lang shook his head when he heard the words, not to mention the grievances between MSN and YY, MSN's business will soon face a huge challenge, Microsoft is a software company from the ground up, and it doesn't have Internet thinking at all.

As for Yahoo, it's even worse. In a few years, Jack Ma would like to throw Yahoo into the garbage dump. In the matter of going downhill, Yahoo is number two, and no one dares to be number one.

However, Shen Lang did not blame Li Xuelin for avoiding the correct answer and choosing two cheats. The reason is very simple. Facebook is still in the development stage at this time, and Zuckerberg is still hesitating whether to expand Facebook's business. beyond college.

Compared with the number of users of MSN and Yahoo Messenger, Facebook is still just a younger brother at this time.

"What do you think of Facebook?" Shen Lang asked.

Li Xuelin often deals with international students in colleges and universities, so he naturally knows about Facebook.

"Facebook is good, but it's too closed. If you don't go out of the college circle, it will always be a niche."

Shen Lang nodded and rubbed his temples: "Well, you can contact Zuckerberg and tell him that I plan to chat with him."

"Mr. Shen, you mean to choose to cooperate with Facebook?" Li Xuelin was a little surprised by Shen Lang's decision.

Shen Lang smiled noncommittally: "Let's touch it first and then read."

"Okay, I'll get in touch with you right now."

In the afternoon, Shen Lang went to the studios of Yangdao and Ice Frog respectively to learn about the development progress of the two games they were working on.

After receiving funding from Shen Lang last year, the two established game studios and started research and development.

Yangdao named his new game [League of Legends], while Ice Frog still uses the name of [DOTA2], and Ice Frog is still doing balance updates for DOTA1 after work. It can be seen that he has a strong interest in DOTA With love.

In this regard, Shen Lang did not intervene, as long as he delayed the normal work progress.

However, these two games are still in the stage of the underlying logic architecture, and they will have to wait until at least 2008 to be released.

After chatting with Yangdao and Ice Frog, Shen Lang returned to the hotel from Star International, Liu Shishi still looked awake, and was still yawning when he saw Shen Lang.

"You didn't wake up after sleeping until now, did you?" Shen Lang said while helping his forehead.

Seeing the small expression on Liu Shishi's face, Shen Lang got the answer.

After lunch in the afternoon, Shen Lang and Liu Shishi arrived at the Griffith Observatory just before the sunset set on the horizon.

"It's so beautiful." Liu Shishi stood in front of the glass railing of the observation deck, looking up at the sunset in the sky with his hands open.

Shen Lang took out his mobile phone from his pocket and took a picture of this scene.

When Liu Shishi heard the sound of the shutter, he looked over subconsciously, and the picture was frozen at this moment.

"How about it, my photography skills are not bad, right? I'm no worse than a professional photographer, why don't I take photos for you." Shen Lang proudly shared the photos with Liu Shishi.

Liu Shishi curled his lips: "It's clearly me and the setting sun that look good, okay, what does it have to do with your photo?"

"Well, you look shameless, very much like me back then."

"Haha~~~"

At night, when the cool wind came, Shen Lang put his coat on Liu Shishi's body. Liu Shishi looked back at Shen Lang, his eyes met, and he did not refuse.

Through the telescope of the observatory, the vastness of the universe comes into view, the river of stars flows, and time seems to freeze at this moment.

After returning from the observatory, Shen Lang cheekily squeezed into Liu Shishi's room.

(End of this chapter)