Located at Los Angeles International Airport, only about five kilometers away from Firefly Cinema. Eric asked someone to send his luggage back to Malibu and came to Firefly Cinema with Jeffrey.

August is usually the busiest period for Hollywood film companies. Although the summer season has come to an end, most of the small and medium-sized production films for the end of the year and the large production films for the second summer season have begun to enter the formal production process during this period. The TV series in the autumn season also begins filming at this time. Eric sat in a business car and passed through the park and saw a busy scene in the cinema. The studios on both sides of the main road of the cinema are full of various vehicles, and the wide parking lot is also full of cars.

After getting off the car, Jeffrey and Eric walked out of the parking lot together and said, "From the current situation, the ten studios in the park can no longer meet the needs. Everyone discussed this issue at the regular meeting last week. We think that it is enough to expand the park westward to build at least five studios. The final plan will be made in the next few days, and you just come back to make an idea."

"Well, let's talk about it then," Eric nodded. He remembered that Warner Burbank's set had more than twenty studios. Although the sizes were different, Fireflies' studios were indeed a bit fewer in terms of quantity.

However, Eric did not immediately make a statement, and would rather say the best after seeing the final expansion plan come out. After all, his personal temporary ideas cannot be better than the plans formulated by the professional strategic development department of Firefly. For Firefly management, Eric usually only gives negative opinions when the company gives plans and the development trend of the film and television industry in memory goes to the left. He is not very clear about the details that will affect the overall situation. Eric usually does not interfere. No mistake can occur in any company development process.

After passing through the cement corridor outside the parking lot and coming to the studio to the small square bordering the digital office area, Jeffrey said: "Recently "Night Visit to Vampire" has been filmed here. Do you want to go and see it on site?"

Eric glanced at the crowded studio area, shook his head and said, "No need for now. I will take the time to check the sample that has been taken recently."

According to the plan, Fireflies will release three films: "Night Visit to Vampire", "Detective Aircraft Head 2" and "Pulp Novel" by the end of the year. For commercial films that were successful in their previous lives, Eric will generally shoot according to the original version in their memory unless he is particularly interested in it. For films that were not directed by him personally, Eric mainly controls the script and post-production editing, and also finds the main creators who are similar to the original film style. During the filming process, unless the producer and director both play together and act together, Eric generally will not intervene in particular, and Eric has not encountered such a thing yet.

Judging from the box office results of a series of movies such as "Far Cry the Island" a few years ago to "The Smiths" co-starring with Sony, Eric adopted this plan very effective. Moreover, in Hollywood, where the industrialization process is very complete, there is no big resistance to implementing this plan. Hollywood is so strong that there are very few directors who have the ability to get control of the film. For example, James Cameron, who has the ability to get control, Eric will be very relieved to hand over the entire project to the other party.

Compared to the noisy studio area, the digital field seems to be orderly. Eric and Jeffrey chatted and walked towards the administrative building, greeting employees who had passed by or didn't know from time to time. Soon, Eric's exclusive office in the cinema. Although it was still clean and tidy, the empty office was obviously less popular.

Eric's assistant team office is located in Burbank's headquarters, so there is no permanent secretary here. Instead, the general manager in charge of park management quickly sent his secretary to help Eric and Jeffrey make some scattered coffee.

Sitting down in the office, Eric's mobile phones carried with him began to ring from time to time. Most of them were some calls from Firefly senior executives. A small number of them learned from various channels that Eric returned to Los Angeles to greet him. However, everyone also knew that Eric had just passed a long flight, so he did not mean to disturb him.

Jeffrey watched Eric sit down in the leather chair, skillfully turned on the computer on the desk and started operating it. After drinking a cup of coffee brought by the secretary, he chatted casually for a few words. Jeffrey stood up and said to Eric, "Since there is nothing wrong, I'll leave first. You have just come back, don't be too busy for too long, go back and rest early."

"I'll give you it," Eric also stood up and sent Jeffrey into the elevator before returning to the office.

Although the Internet is developing very rapidly, hotmail's online email service is still limited to the United States, which has caused Eric to no longer use email to communicate with all parties in a timely manner after leaving the United States. This is also something that Eric was very worried about when he was in Europe and Japan.

After sending away Jeffrey, Eric connected to the Internet, opened IE browser, and Yahoo's homepage quickly jumped out.

Since the Yahoo portal was launched at the end of last year, Eric has put forward many of his own ideas to Yahoo's technical team based on his memories of his previous life. Based on Eric's suggestions and the support of current software and hardware conditions, the Yahoo team has revised the homepage again.

At this time, what Eric saw was Yahoo's new homepage. The theme box on the left is from top to bottom, and the email portal of hotmail, Yahoo Information Section and Yahoo Forum Section. On the right is the URL navigation interface that includes the search function.

In my memory, Eric saw Yahoo's homepage in the university computer room in 1995. What Eric remembered most was that at that time, the four red "two cakes" on both sides of the Yahoo logo on the Yahoo homepage gave people the feeling that there were four mahjongs on the homepage. In addition, the overall exaggerated design, it feels very funny when I think about it now.

Since he had the opportunity to control everything, Eric's advice to the team was to be concise, concise, and simple. In order to look more pleasing, Eric also removed the exclamation mark behind Yahoo.

Yahoo Information and Yahoo Forum were launched under Eric's suggestion. In Eric's vision, the Yahoo Information section will become larger and larger. In the end, Yahoo will be transformed into a news and information portal.

However, with the current scale of Internet users, Yahoo Information cannot compete with paper media and TV media, and is still in the exploration stage. At this stage, Yahoo mainly focuses on forum development. In order to quickly expand the forum user scale, Yahoo directly connects to hotmail's user base and does not establish a separate user database. Although this has been criticized by the Yahoo team, under the insistence of Eric, the boss, this measure has been implemented quickly. When Yahoo and hotmail companies develop separately for a few years, Eric plans to integrate the two companies. After all, with hotmail, Eric will no longer allow Yahoo to develop email services separately.

Although Yahoo Information has just developed, through cooperation with some media, the information in the Yahoo Information section is much more than the few newspapers that ordinary people see every day. Although a lot of information is a bit behind, it just happens to be suitable for people like Eric who has not paid attention to current affairs in the United States for a long time.

Open the information section. Through the search function, Eric quickly found some of the information he was most interested in about Hollywood.

In addition to a lot of box office news about "Jurassic Park", the biggest thing that has happened in Hollywood in the past year is of course the bidding for Paramount by Viacom and QV companies.

After the two sides had no success in price increase at the beginning of the year, there were several small-scale confrontations during this period. However, in order to accumulate more strength, Viacom's Redstone turned its merger and acquisitions to Blockbuster, the largest video rental and sales company in the United States. Viacom turned its fingers and Paramount temporarily put the negotiations with QV.

According to some recent news, Redstone has basically completed negotiations with Blockbuster. It is expected that the merger and acquisition case between the two parties will be completed by September at the latest. Once Viacom takes over Blockbuster and the videotape rental and sales company's huge cash flow and debt financing brought by this asset mortgage, Viacom's chances of winning Paramount will be greatly increased.

As for QV, although Barry Diller has not relaxed his efforts to acquire Paramount, remote communications, one of QV's two shareholders, has begun to negotiate mergers and acquisitions with another US communications industry giant at&t. The main body of this merger is At&t. Once At&t completes the acquisition of remote communications company, QV's support for Paramount acquisition will be half. Therefore, most American media are currently not optimistic about Barry Diller's acquisition of Paramount.

After reading the news, Eric thought about other things in his mind. In his memory, after Viacom completed the acquisition of Paramount with a huge amount of $10 billion, a few years later, the rise of an online rental chain named Netflix (li) caused the Blockbuster company, which Viacom acquired, to shrink sharply in terms of business and market value.

Thinking of Netflix, Eric's habitual bad taste smile appeared on his face again, but he was not in a hurry to establish Netflix. First of all, he had to realize convenient online payment channels. If you want to achieve convenient online payment, you must develop e-commerce.

Everything has to be done step by step.

Eric sighed, but closed the Yahoo information page and opened the Yahoo Forum. Due to the limitations of network conditions, Yahoo Forum currently only provides theme sections in a targeted manner. If users want to establish theme forums they are interested in, they can only build their own websites. However, in any case, Yahoo Forum, which has a hotmail user group, is definitely the largest communication community on the Internet at present.

Online exchange forums are very new for many Internet users. Eric randomly selected several forums and found that users in various sectors are very active. However, he also discovered some minor problems. The users in the forum have no other logos except their personal nicknames.

In memory, the simplest user logo is of course the classification of levels, and the introduction of a user level system can greatly improve the user adhesion of the website.

After a brief Cisco for a while, Eric opened his email address and planned to send this suggestion to Yahoo and Hotmail's team.

Although Eric has not been in the United States for this period, dozens of unread emails from all aspects have been accumulated in the email address. Of course, the number of email storage for ordinary users is limited, but this problem cannot exist in Eric.

First write down what he just thought and sent it out, then Eric began to process the emails accumulated in his mailbox.

When he almost finished reading the email, he suddenly heard a new email prompt.

After taking a look, it was sent by the person named Steve Mitnik, the current person in charge of Hotmail.

Eric opened it curiously and found that there was only one sentence inside: What is user stickiness?

Because English is a pinyin text, if there is no special explanation, I suddenly see a new word. Although most people can read it according to commonly used grammar, it is impossible to know what it means. This is also the reason why Westerners often suffer from dyslexia.

When Eric just sent an email, he could not create a new word. He just pieced together the two words "Sticking and Degree" into a new phrase. He didn't know whether it was appropriate.

Seeing the other party’s question, Eric thought for a moment, and then quickly wrote an explanatory statement and replied to the past.

A reply email soon appeared again on the computer, and it was still Steve Mitnik: It's a very interesting theory, you are also a very interesting person.

Eric replied: If you are praising me, then thank you.

After a few dozen seconds, the reply came again: Of course I am praising you, to us, you are Jesus.

Eric was surprised: Why do you say so?

Steve Mitnik: Because you have invested more than $50 million in three companies without any profit prospects, which is a lot of money. In the past, we didn’t have enough funds to realize many ideas, but now we can make these things. So, of course, you are like Jesus to us.

Eric couldn't help laughing: I'm just investing in the future.

Steve Mitnik: Can you see the future?

Eric: I can't answer you this question, but I see a future now.

Steve Mitnik: Oh, what?

Eric: Instant messaging software. If we can develop an instant messaging software, we can no longer chat via email. Do you think this idea has any prospects?

On the other side, I was silent for a moment before replying again: A good idea, and the technical requirements are not high. Give me 5 million and I will make the finished product within three months.

Eric replied decisively: No problem, in addition, you are also a very interesting person, you can meet him when you have time.
Chapter completed!