Reboot 2003

Chapter 185 093: Faction (two in one)

Do you want to stop writing songs?
Originally, I wanted her to say that she was very happy, and then followed up with the next sentence, which was natural and smooth... As the company's queen singer, the proportion of the share is also easy to talk about, it's all a matter of course.

Of course, she has no feeling and can't do anything about it—after she became famous, she still updates her channel every now and then. Not only has she finished updating the "Computer Songwriting Tutorial That Elementary School Students Can Understand", but she also occasionally makes small covers. Now the whole site Number two, she's having fun with it.

In contrast, being a star with a lot of attention, participating in TV shows, getting serious records and awards seems to be very important, and it did make her earn money, but for an elementary school student who has been active on the Internet since her debut , the world she knows should not be the way ordinary people see——

Her popularity comes from the Internet, and most of her income comes from CRBT. It is true that she may not feel much about these things. The song "Farewell" sung casually was rushed early, and it has been sold for 10,000+ yuan since last year. These awards are comparable to her It seems that past achievements really don't matter, so naturally I don't feel anything.

Chen Qin thought about it, but didn't say anything else at first, planning to threaten and lure her after the song was written.

However, Xu Lingling seemed to realize something.

Afterwards, Chen Qin responded to a few work-related voice messages, but they were all the same boring things as usual——

"Linux program outsourcing? I think forget it, don't get involved in government bidding, we can't win..."

"Campus promotion... Forget it first, let others do it if they like it."

"It's okay to do a little outsourcing...but it's still about the products at hand, so you can concentrate on doing your own things..."

……

After replying a few voice messages, Xu Lingling sat on the bed behind and watched, and suddenly asked: "Chen Qin, are you short of money recently?"

Chen Qin was taken aback for a moment, then rubbed his hands together and said, "It's a little..."

She was about to talk about writing songs, but she asked, "How much is missing? Don't we have a lot in our hands?"

I am in the fifth grade, and it seems that I should have a little awareness of property management.Chen Qin had black lines all over his head: "Do you know what I want the money for?"

"Just to make more money? Anyway, you will never have enough money."

"It can't be calculated like this. Money is credit. We use legal means to make money. This is contributing to social construction. For example, if I start a small business, you sing and sell ringtones..."

Chen Qin was talking nonsense, and planned to fool her first, but Xu Lingling seemed to be quite thoughtful: "Father won't know, and if I don't say it's you, he definitely doesn't know that this matter is related to you."

It's not that important...

"Don't worry about it. After all, we are still young. We will always encounter such and such things on the way of growing up. Maybe we will have money when we wake up tomorrow. Anyway, don't worry about it..."

After being so confused, Xu Lingling seemed to believe it. After she went back by herself, Chen Qin remembered that she had forgotten to write a song.

Of course, this is not important, anyway, after copying out the song first, Chen Qin immediately opened the composition software, and as a result, he spent a whole night pondering on the interface without any movement.

I also wrote the song at this time last year. I almost forgot what I learned at that time, and what should I copy this time?Recently, the digital music market is booming. Sony has packaged Liu Tianxian to prepare for his debut as a singer. This is the best way for him, Boss Chen, to make money.Speaking of it, I knew that I would not have invited Lin Junjie. Although Warner recently intended to reconcile, Lin Junjie used the title song of his next album as a promotional song. This time the sincerity is very good, but the appearance fee has also increased recently. Quite a lot, I would have written it myself if I knew it a long time ago...

Ding Dong!

Suddenly there was news that Xiao Xu had just left, and the news was from old Xu: "Boss, there is something important, I don't know what was discussed at the World Wide Web Conference last time, Google said they have to talk to us about Getai en .”

"what's up?"

Old Xu said: "It's the piracy issue!"

He was a little sleepy at first, but Chen Qin regained his energy all of a sudden.

Of course, this is not a bad thing. After all, Getaien is attacked by the San Francisco police almost every day. After becoming more formal, it will call itself to discuss issues with the copyright owner, but it has no content copyright conflict with Google.

But to discuss this issue with Google, Chen Qin has indeed waited for a long time... If I am not mistaken, it should be a good thing.

Chen Qin quickly reopened Skype and entered the meeting channel of Getai en company. Recently, Getai en recruited seven or eight people, and the management was basically done online. After Chen Qin entered, he found that Lao Xu was already there.

Also present was an auditor of Galaxy Investment, and two early employees of Getai.com—they were talking to Lao Xu very quickly, and it was already night, but in It was just early in the morning in Silicon Valley, and during the hasty conversation, Lao Xu noticed him: "Old Chen, I have already notified the law firm that Schmidt from Google wants to talk to us directly."

"Is it just a copyright issue?"

"They said yes, and it seems like they got wind of it at this year's World Wide Web Conference and were ready to come and have a formal talk with us."

"By the way, did MySpace contact you? Or Yahoo or something?"

"not yet……"

"Forget it, go prepare the documents!"

The copyright issue is an old problem for Getaien. In fact, in the past six months, the business of both parties in San Diego has been doing very well. Then start to learn and grow step by step. After 'laying a good foundation', everything will develop step by step.

This is certainly the case for Galaxy Software. It has a bright future and can build its own Internet ecosystem before everyone else.

Although the Internet world has never had a good project... Maybe this road is indeed blank in history, but after all, it is a big tree, and since this year, there have been countless followers.

Contrary to Chen Qin's expectations, Tencent did not enter the market immediately. After all, its basic market is still not stable. Not only is there a lot of copycats from its peers in the PC communication market to grab the market, QQ has not yet officially defeated them. There is msn as the enemy, and it has really messed with China Mobile... China Mobile thinks that QQ has robbed him of the SMS market. Tencent communicates data. In order to get rid of China Mobile's restraint, all projects are now launched to strengthen QQ's market position or increase other income channels. For the time being, Tencent has not spared energy to deal with Galaxy software.

But Shanda has set its sights on Galaxy Software. It wants to expand the entertainment ecosystem. Galaxy Software looks a bit like an opponent. Chen Tianjiao wanted to buy Galaxy before, but after the acquisition failed, he directly copied a video player. It is said that Mr. Chen’s younger brother Chen Xiaonian is still there. I plan to build a browser as well; Baidu is the pioneer of digital music, and copied a similar player from Qianqianjingting.

The competition among these free software itself is not fierce now, coupled with the current ecological advantages of Galaxy Software, new entrants basically cannot pose any pressure, and now more competitors come from profitable projects, just like Galaxy Music at the beginning. In half a year, Water Pavilion Getai's copycat projects have sprung up like mushrooms after rain...

Patriots who make mp3 brought in Patriot Music. Their main imitation object was ITunes, but they also copied part of the ui and web page interaction methods of Shuixiegetai.Linktone acquired Jiutian Music Network, and began to formally enter digital music. Old music sites such as a8 Music and Kuniu Music have transformed to digital music. What is even more threatening is Wang Leilei's Tom Online, which he directly moved to a video site. , Call it fun.

Of course, even so, these opponents are really not enough to look at, not to mention those content-based music stations that have no user base at all, and Wanleba is also not a threatening enemy. Internet competition is ultimately a competition of product quality, tom Music was the inventor of the business model of underreporting the number of downloads when it sold mobile phone ringtones. It is notorious in the industry. Now it is also a content monopoly on the music network, and it is completely unpopular on the traditional content side. .

The only thing it seems to deserve is the 'background is hard' one.

The boss behind Tom Online is Li Jiacheng, who seems to be very powerful...

As a result, China Telecom gave me a big slap in the face as soon as it opened, saying that his Wanleba video network broadcast news illegally, first come and give me the audio-visual license!
Afterwards, "Let's Play" really didn't get involved in the business of the video network, and the competition also existed on the video network side. However, at the same time, a returnee wanted to buy the domain name 'tudou' from Boss Chen and offered 50 yuan.

In the end, I couldn’t buy it, so I had to set up a popular digital domain name and make a video website. As a result, the website’s popularity was bleak, and it closed in June.

And Sohu recently set up 56.com, but it can only engage in ecological activities on its own one-acre three-point land. On its own track, with these challengers entering the arena, the popularity of Shuixiegetai has grown steadily. Although it has no effect on the share of traditional pirated music websites, its dominance is unshakable in the two tracks of ugc creation and video websites...

Maybe there are no such rules in traditional business, but in the Internet field, to make a bunch of codes an integral part of users' lives, product craftsmanship will become an extremely important part, and the Internet spreads fast, which means The first-mover advantage will become very obvious. Although Galaxy Software has not done anything else, it seems that it has indeed won in its own track.

However, in overseas markets, the situation seems to be a bit different——

Facebook, which was invested by San Diego not long ago, is proud of its success. It is invincible in the college market. The current hot MySpace seems to be completely unable to beat it among young people. Compared with Friendstar, which seems to be a purely offline dating tool, it is even better. It's completely unknown, so it doesn't look like a product of this era at all.

So even though Facebook wasted a few months at the end of last year, when the website looked like it was going to be yellow, and because of that dispute, the Facebook page still hides the Chinese 'Facebook' page, on SNS @ Zuckerberg and trying to piss him off by sending him Facebook emojis have become part of the daily routine of college students.

But even so, Facebook is still triumphant.

Recently, it has added tens of thousands of users every week, and has expanded to all universities in the United States. After Santiago took a stake, he did not interfere with the personnel structure of the website. Some fixes were made to the early crappy code, and the ability to bind Facebook accounts with their new browser 'accounts' was added.

This move seems to be designed to inject users into Facebook, but Facebook is still a closed community, and obviously it doesn’t need his messy things to attract traffic. On the contrary, the gadgets of Galaxy Software are very popular on Facebook, which is said to make San Diego The download volume of these software has increased more than ten times in half a year, which makes people wonder who is draining from whom...

Taking advantage of this upsurge, Facebook began to seek the next wave of financing.

"Price it at [-] million US dollars, or pull it down!"

"2 million dollars, or don't talk about it!"

I don’t know what stimulated it. Recently, after investors called, Sean Parker arrogantly reported some unrealistic figures, and Mark Zuckerberg yelled at the side, as if the two were with someone Like a grudge.

It’s just that this trend came quickly. Myspace was just bought by Murdoch this month for 6 million yuan. If newcomers want to get a share of this wave of boom, they can only go to the followers behind —Facebook A social networking site that has just been established for a year, with a valuation of over [-] million, has actually been invested. Recently, they seem to have been negotiating terms with multiple investors.

Of course, the product quality of Facebook itself is indeed online, but on the other side, it is the old face, Getai en, who attracts more attention.

Getaien's products are terrible, not only inferior to its own galaxy software, but also inferior to Facebook, its page now has some simple font problems, and the ui is also very simple.After the turmoil at the end of last year, Sequoia seems to want to invest in this website, which is simply a bargain. After all, who would invest in a website that can't even do a good job in the page?But for some reason, this investment failed.

In the next six months, Getaien encountered the same fierce competition. Everyone thought that it would be defeated quickly without financing, especially in February, the former PayPal veteran Chen Shijun and his companions founded YouTube.

This website looks pretty good, with nice ui, beautiful fonts, and a lot of social interaction content. The founder seems to be a very social person. After the website was founded, he consciously started to manage the community atmosphere and wanted to shape it into a 'can be used for Find someone to open a party ladder' social video website, which is also in full compliance with the current industry development trend.

Other than being slightly late by a few months, it has hardly any reason to fail.

But it still failed... don't know why, in short, there are no users to see it, and it is still a poor garage company.

On the contrary, Getaien, relying on more mature servers and bandwidth, has gathered a lot of popularity through some gray content. Recently, through the API interface leading to external websites, a Ronaldinho commercial clip has gone viral on MySpace and Gorilla. Recently, the number of registered users has quietly exceeded 400 million, and the content of podcasts produced by users has become more intensive...

At the beginning, latecomers deliberately imitated the bad UI of Getai en, and the importance of external API interfaces was also paid attention to, but they have fallen behind.

From this point of view, Getai en also seems to be in a very good growth environment. After the turmoil at the end of last year, it just escaped from a wave of copyright disputes, but recent public opinion seems to have regained its momentum.

At this time, Google came to talk about this issue...

Of course he didn't come here to find fault. In fact, Chen Qin had been waiting for them for a long time.

Google is not a member of the enemy, it is a friend of Galaxy Software... There are no unreasonable friendships in the business world, but there are comrades with the same interests. Google not only cooperates closely with Galaxy Software in the Tianchao area, but also in today's In the Meilijian market, there is already such a camp——

While Galaxy Software is extending its tentacles to other fields, Google is also doing the same thing. He is doing Google Maps, book indexing, and Google Video and News Search. As a member of the 'piracy' camp, Google is undoubtedly coming with good intentions.

After a while, the three people from Google joined the conference channel. Of course, CEO Schmidt has come, but Google is still an engineering company, and the real power of the company is actually not in the hands of the CEO just like San Diego.

Chen Qin saw the two people following him, one named Brin and the other named Sandberg. After entering, they introduced themselves familiarly. They were already familiar with Lao Xu, but this was the first time they talked with other high-level executives in San Diego. , After entering, Sandberg asked: "Because the matter is very urgent, I came to you temporarily, I am really sorry, will your grandson always come?"

Why are they talking about Sun Xiaomei?Lao Xu and Chen Qin felt baffled: "We can represent San Diego."

Several people quickly agreed, so the conversation started. After a few simple greetings and getting to know each other, Schmidt got to the point first. Although he is a professional manager, he is also a manager of technical projects in the semiconductor industry. , I have a good relationship with Google engineers: "Actually, we just participated in the No.14 International World Wide Web Conference. I don't know if anyone in your group participated in this exchange activity..."

Both Lao Chen and the employees of Getaien said no, so Schmidt explained that the rationality of public domain information was discussed at this year's Internet Conference, and then Schmidt asked: "Have you read the recent CNET about us? news?"

Chen Qin still didn't know, this time it was Lao Xu who explained to him: "Is it Eleanor Myers? He seems to have reported on Mr. Schmidt."

Schmidt nodded for confirmation: "It's her."

Old Xu hesitated to speak, and didn't know how to explain to Chen Qin, but Sandberg didn't care, and explained with a smile: "This reporter only used social engineering and found all the personal information related to Schmidt through our Google. , and published it in newspapers as an example..."

Chen Qin was curious: "Open the box?"

"What is unboxing? In short, she criticized our unrestrained disclosure of private domain information as unethical, and was incited by some traditional content providers who complained about Internet copyright management. We have recently been brought to the forefront .”

"My God." Boss Chen said in his loose English, "Then don't involve us in it."

People at Google naturally don't mind him pretending to be confused. This time, Sergey Brin, one of the founders of Google, said with a smile: "No, dear Chen, now we are grasshoppers on the same rope. There was a bear in the woods, and now they're driving us around, and I think we're brothers."

This passage seems to come from Sun Xiaomei, CEO of San Diego Group’s Tianchao District. It looks like it was typed out in advance, and the two people in San Diego laughed when they heard it. Old Xu asked: "Okay, So what have you learned today?"

Schmidt wanted to say a few more polite words, but Sergey Brin probably felt that this was the end of the story, and said bluntly: "To be honest, we are very interested in getai.en."

(End of this chapter)