Chapter 170 Miss 170, You Are Embarrassed

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.

What 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 is more attractive than the real-name system, and that 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 children 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 kind of problem. 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. Now the number of new users every week is floating around 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 experimentation."

"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?"

While Fitz was talking, Eric was considering the feasibility of his suggestion. After a few minutes, he said: "Let's start the middle school promotion first, and put it on hold for 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 on flattery, 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 about your friends including your colleagues and boss, 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 stutter, that means you have something to say. Go ahead."

"Boss, since Facebook went online, everyone has been very busy. Now there are more and more users, and the pressure of auditing is getting greater and greater. There is also maintenance and technical development."

"50 people are a bit too few. When I am really busy, I have to ask Howard and Mirren to borrow people, but I am embarrassed to keep asking. Can you recruit a batch of new employees?"

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

"I calculated that if everything develops normally, 70 people will be enough to maintain it until the end of this year."

"Okay, then recruit. You are responsible for the specifics. I will go and see when the time comes."

After hanging up the phone, Eric thought that it was indeed time to add staff to Facebook. The main reason was that he did not expect it to develop so rapidly.

In addition, if it is to compete with Myspace, the logistics will definitely not be stable.

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

Now it has been nearly a month, and it is finally here.

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

As a traditional newspaper giant, a stubborn old man, especially since Murdoch has experienced the disastrous failure of the Internet, it is not easy to rekindle his enthusiasm.

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

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

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

Almost all of Murdoch's investments were wasted. That was more than 10 billion, not just a dozen dollars. He lost so much that he vomited blood.

Since then, Murdoch has never said anything good about the Internet, and he has directly disbanded the Internet department of News Corporation and completely stopped playing.

So even if it was the youngest son's request this time, Eric estimated that Murdoch might not be willing to invest much capital.

It is very likely that it is just like his father giving him 10 million to take a gamble, for example, James is also given half a year to work on it.

If you succeed, you are a genius. If you fail, come back and listen to my arrangement for work.

And Eric believes that Murdoch will definitely set a goal for his son, and the goal must be set with reference to Facebook.

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

And after having a user base, Murdoch's greedy character will definitely raise profit requirements.

Assets that cannot be realized are equal to negative assets.

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

It just happens that users hate advertising the most. Once too many advertisements are inserted when the user base is not stable, this practice is no different from driving users out in disguise.

Before starting Facebook, Eric had already set a policy that he would not accept advertisements within a year. Even if he did not make a penny, he would first stabilize the users by burning money.

When the user stickiness is high and Facebook's functions are perfected, you will be reluctant to leave.

The cost of silence is too high, and then it will be time to reap the benefits.

Just when Eric set the next development plan for Facebook, Myspace also began large-scale promotion.

With strong financial support, Myspace's promotion strategy is similar to Facebook.

First of all, TV advertising. As a father's child, Fox Group is running at full speed.

News network, TV network, and radio network insert looping advertisements at various time periods.

"Join Myspace!"

"Join Myspace!"

"Join Myspace!"

As long as they are Fox's audiences, they are all brainwashed by this advertisement.

Then there is online promotion. Yahoo, Google, MSN, and major forums have all started to carry out marketing.

Then there is offline promotion. Myspace did not choose major universities, perhaps because it felt that they were already occupied by Facebook.

It chose the plan that Eric gave up and cooperated with major companies and groups for promotion.

At the same time, a large number of people were hired to frequent bars and nightclubs in major cities, and DJs, musicians, and spirited girls were chosen to join.

This group of people had fun and had a certain number of fans. More importantly, music is currently Facebook's weak point.

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

And myspace certainly did not let go of the film and television industry. MGM can mobilize its own connections, and Fox is only strong.

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

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

The actors were also helpless. They were all familiar with the big guys, and they had to give face to both sides, and they dared not offend either side.

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

Nicole even called him to ask what to do, and Eric also asked her to open it and send a message to show her respect. She and James Murdoch were also nodding acquaintances.

However, although the stars will give face to both sides, who can keep the stars in the future depends on their own ability.

At the same time, half a month later, Facebook users received a system tweet again, and the official will hold an event.

"Vote for your favorite stars!"

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

The rules are very simple, the number of fans is used to determine the ranking, and the star fan nickname that ranks first can get a gold logo.

The second to fifth ranked stars get silver logos, and the sixth to tenth ranked stars get bronze logos.

Facebook also bought advertising space, and the Internet was also full of publicity, fighting against the Myspace ads.

It was Monday, and after breakfast, Eric drove to the set. Today was the day when "House of Cards" started.

Eric had just parked the car, and a white Land Rover suddenly drove into the parking space next to him.

He was already familiar with this car, and it was naturally the beautiful Charlize 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. Two tight legs wearing flat sandals were in sight.

Theron smiled sweetly and helped Eric get down.

Bang!

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

"I won't let go!"

Eric pinched her hard, and Theron's face suddenly became tangled.

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

Eric didn't listen to what she said at all, and leaned over and said in Theron's ear: "Miss, you are embarrassed"

Theron's breathing suddenly became heavy, and she pulled her hand out with force, glared at Eric, and left in a hurry.

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

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

"No director, the filming is almost over."

"Well, there are only a few scenes left. We will try to finish it within two days. Go to make up."

Theron said "oh" and walked to the dressing room, sighing again.

"The filming of "Monster" will be over soon. I'm afraid we don'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 always bullies and seduces me. He is so bad. Why is he so handsome and so outstanding?"

"Charlize Theron, wake up. You have a boyfriend. Eric Cooper is a playboy. He has had scandals with Nicole Kidman, Gal Gadot, and the Olsen sisters. You two are not suitable."

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

The makeup artist puts makeup on Theron, while Theron looks ahead with empty eyes.

In her mind, the figures of Eric and Stuart keep interweaving and changing.

Perhaps she herself doesn't know when she started to fall into it physically and mentally.

Alas!