In a model Internet cafe near Ygrit's headquarters.

Simon, Steve Case and others were sitting in front of the 15-inch monitors that were opened. Speaking of which, Simon was not satisfied with the CRT monitor in front of him, but the 15-inch color flat-screen monitor was already very popular in this era.

good.

The homepage of the Yigrit portal is also very simple in Simon's opinion. Fortunately, he doesn't remember Yahoo's fancy way of putting a few mahjong-style buttons like "two cakes" on the homepage, which makes it look very simple and clear.

The website presents a 'same' font division, and under the top-level Yigrit LOGO are the five functional navigation menus of 'online news', 'online games', 'personal homepage', 'e-mail' and 'online forum'.

On the left side below the menu is a more subdivided small navigation, in the middle is news content and a directory of websites that have joined the World Wide Web system, and on the right is the user login and registration page.

Although there are still many functions in the plan that will be launched one after another, in the next few years, Igret's portal business will focus on these five major businesses.

Among the five major businesses, online news is the service with the least future in Simon’s opinion.

However, before the emergence of segmented professional news websites, the news provided by the Yigrit portal will be a service that is very attractive to users. Therefore, the Yigrit company team is already preparing its own news media department.

Due to the limitations of browser functions at this time, the online games provided by Yigrit are not rich in content. For the time being, there are only some simple chess and card games and puzzle games. Simon will also play the famous game that was born in 1992 in the original time and space.

The game 'Minesweeper' was brought out.

Due to the temporary lack of content, Igret has focused more on the "interactivity" of the game section. By adding points ranking and other systems in the game, it stimulates users' competitiveness, and also embeds a text chat function.

While playing games, you can chat with friends or make new friends.

Of course, this is only a temporary expedient.

Igret has invested in developing network graphics and animation display technology similar to the later Flash function, and plans to cooperate with EA, a game manufacturer owned by Daenerys Entertainment, to develop online web games that can be integrated into the IE browser.

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The official name of the personal homepage is Ygritte Blog, and it also integrates a microblog.

In order to enrich the content of the portal website as soon as possible, the personal homepage business will focus more on blog operation in the early stage. Of course, the Weibo business will not be given up.

In addition, the personal homepage business has opened corporate and celebrity authentication functions.

During this time, with Simon’s contact, most of the technology company executives holding shares in Westeros opened personal homepages, including Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Jeff Bezos, and

Roll Butts, Steve Case, Tim Berners-Lee, etc. are all listed.

The joining of a large number of executives from star technology companies is enough to drive the entire new technology industry in the United States to pay attention to the newly born Yigrit portal.

On the Hollywood side, the official homepage of Daenerys Entertainment has also been officially opened, and will be connected to the official website being built by Daenerys Entertainment in the future. Simon plans to release all the company's various products on the official homepage of Daenerys Entertainment in advance.

The form of project revenue attracts public attention.

In just a few weeks of opening its official homepage, Daenerys Entertainment has continuously released exclusive news such as the opening of Daenerys Studios in Malibu, the confirmation of the supporting cast of "Wonder Woman", and the upcoming filming of "Terminator 2", which has attracted a lot of attention.

Pretty intense attention.

The development of the American film industry also means a huge core group of movie fans.

Before the advent of the Internet, movie fans could only track their favorite films and filmmakers through traditional media. Now,

Not only can this information be obtained in real time, but you can also interact with officials through the Internet, which is undoubtedly very attractive to movie fans.

As for celebrities, because the number of Internet users is still too small, Simon has not used his influence in Hollywood for the time being.

After all, it doesn’t look good for a Hollywood star to open a personal homepage but only have a few thousand followers. Simon plans to expand his efforts in Hollywood after the number of Yigrit users exceeds one million.

However, although Simon did not take the initiative to win over, many celebrities still took the initiative to open personal homepages and undergo certification.

Sandra Bullock is one of them. After Simon heard the news, he specially bought a latest Panasonic digital camera as a gift to Sandra as a thank you for her 'support', and it was also convenient for taking pictures and

Upload.

You can post pictures on your personal homepage.

However, although digital cameras were born in the 1970s, they have not become popular because their photo effects are far inferior to those of traditional film cameras and their prices are relatively expensive.

Most people are full of the desire for expression in their bones. It is conceivable that as long as the Yigrit portal develops, in order to be able to upload pictures for sharing, the popularity of digital cameras is just around the corner.

E-mail is undoubtedly the most practical one among the five major services of the Igret portal.

At Simon's insistence, the email function for the general public is still free, but it is limited to certain functional limitations due to technology and server capacity at this time.

Simon originally planned to take out the enterprise mailbox business and cooperate with other companies. After Carol Bartz joined Eagle, he persuaded Simon to give up this idea and instead handed over the operation of the enterprise mailbox to the software department.

The final Igret online forum adopts the model of mature forums such as Tianya Community in Simon's Memory. Compared with the topic discussion post bar model, the forum model is more likely to produce relatively high-quality content. In the future, this section will also be like a personal homepage.

Also provides a large amount of content for the portal.

After discussing the suggestions for the Internet cafe, everyone's topic inevitably turned to the Ygrit portal.

Simon spent a week in San Francisco last time, and later compiled a thick memo on various ideas about the Internet. He didn't keep it private, and everyone there had seen it.

Regarding the profit model of Ygriet Portal, Simon proposed the idea of ​​an Internet advertising alliance based on his memory.

Many small websites or personal sites cannot operate a revenue system alone, but these sites happen to make up most of the content of the Internet.

According to the principle of the long tail theory, as long as enough small micro-sites that are ignored by most people can be united to form an alliance, and combined for advertising operations, it will be enough to generate a volume of benefits that can compete with some content giants. The original time and space

Google and Amazon are both very typical long-tail companies.

"Simon, I found a problem," Carol Butts, who was very girly in character and occasionally used American curse words as everyone was discussing, suddenly said: "I want to realize the long tail effect you mentioned.

, Even if the number of Internet users is 10 million or tens of millions, it is not enough. Moreover, even if the number of Internet users has the potential to hit a higher level, how long do you think it will take?"

Carol Bartz will be responsible for the sales and operations of Yigrit-related application software. Simon envisions that Yigrit's software revenue will be used to subsidize the operation of the portal for a long time to come.

As AOL upgrades its World Wide Web technology for new and old users, in less than a month, 100,000 users have already brought IGRETE company a lot of benefits based on the IE browser and the originally agreed carrier pricing of US$10.

$1 million in revenue.

If the number of Internet users can reach tens of millions in the next few years, the IE browser will be able to recover hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for Yigrit.

Looking at Yigret Portal again, not to mention profits, Yigret Portal has almost no revenue in the short term.

It is obvious that as long as the portal business is abandoned, it will be easy for Igret to make profits by selling software. Therefore, it is not difficult to understand that Carol Bartz should not agree with Simon's burning money on the portal business.

Simon heard Carol Bartz's question, looked at the outspoken female executive, and said: "In 1980, the number of video recorders in North America was 2%, but by 1990, this number rose to 70%.

It has almost reached universality. I believe the Internet should also have this potential."

Carol Butts retorted quickly: "These are two industries that have no reference at all and are not comparable."

In the Internet cafe, everyone stopped their discussion and watched with interest as this executive, who had just joined the company less than a month ago, launched an attack on his boss.

Simon seemed very patient and said: "Okay, Carol, you should know Moore's Law proposed by Gordon Moore, the founder of Intel, right?"

Carol Bartz expertly added: "Computer performance doubles every 18 to 24 months as the number of components an integrated circuit can accommodate increases."

Simon leaned back on the chair casually, knowing that the people around him might also have doubts similar to Carol Bartz's. He glanced around the Internet cafe and said: "The increase in computer performance also means that we can use computers to

Realize more functions on the Internet. In my opinion, the current services of the Igret portal are still very crude. In the future, I believe that news information on the Internet platform can completely replace the traditional paper media platform, and online games can far exceed simple chess and cards.

and puzzles, and even enable tens of thousands of people to appear on one game service at the same time

Interaction within the server. The functions of email, personal homepages and online forums will also be more powerful. And that’s not all. In the future Internet, in addition to news, games and social networking, people should also be able to obtain novels, music, videos and online shopping.

Wait for all functional experiences. You can think about it, if a person can obtain all the information and services provided by newspapers, TV and physical stores in daily life through the Internet, and the price is relatively low, or even free, such a platform

, how many people will be attracted to join?”

Everyone in the Internet cafe is at the elite level. Simon just described it briefly. Everyone can easily outline a grand industrial blueprint in their minds. Tim Berners-Lee and Steve Case looked excited.

John Chambers looked attentively, and Jeff Bezos rubbed his knees with an obvious eagerness to try, as if he couldn't wait to return to the headquarters of Ygritte Company to get started.

Carol Butts, who was the first to question Simon, was silent for a moment, and finally said: "But, Simon, this may take a long time, maybe ten years, maybe twenty years. Moreover, I think it will open up a complete

A brand-new industry cannot be accomplished by one company."

"Of course not one company," Simon said: "In fact, there are already many companies. For example, now we have Cisco, AOL and Eagle. In addition, Westeros has also invested in Microsoft, Intel

, SUN, Oracle and other new technology companies, these can all become our allies in jointly developing the Internet industry."

John Chambers from SUN heard this and said: "Simon, so you have had this idea three years ago?"

After the 1987 stock market crash, Simon made billions of dollars through the operation of S&P 500 index futures, and immediately invested most of his funds in new technology fields.

Simon shook his head and casually told a lie that was not a lie, and said: "To be more accurate, it should be when I joined Stanford and came into contact with ARPANET for the first time."

In 1985, a poor young man from a lower-class background received a full scholarship to Stanford University through years of hard work.

Then.

In just a few months, he went crazy.

Simon wasn't just Carol Butts' boss, he was the boss of everyone else on site.

Everyone fell into unified silence again.

If being crazy once can create such an amazingly talented guy, it seems that it would be good to be crazy like that once.

John Chambers was the first to recover from this silent atmosphere and said: "Simon, there have been other network router companies in the industry. If we want to ensure Cisco's dominant position, we must IPO as soon as possible and then grow through acquisitions."

own strength. Moreover, Cisco maintains its absolute leadership and can ensure the promotion of World Wide Web technology."

"You can discuss Cisco's IPO with James and John tomorrow. However, before Cisco goes public, it will re-plan and set up a dual-class share structure to ensure Ygritte's absolute control over Cisco. Moreover, during the IPO process,

Igret will also participate in the subscription to ensure its own shareholding ratio." Simon said, looked at Steve Case and asked: "Steve, what do you mean?"

In just one month, the number of AOL users exceeded 100,000, and Steve Case was very ambitious at this time.

Without Simon as a major financier, it would naturally be the best choice to immediately push AOL to the public market to raise funds. Now, of course, Steve Case is no longer worried about this matter. Anyway, the company's absolute control already belongs to Weiwei.

If Westeros has an IPO, the shareholding ratio of their original partners will be further reduced. Listening to what Simon just said, Simon will implement a dual-class share structure. Westeros Company obviously does not intend to give up its interest in AOL.

Absolute control.

If AOL wants to expand, an IPO is certainly inevitable, but it can definitely accumulate for another year or two.

Thinking this way, Steve Case said: "I think it is the best time to consider an IPO when the number of online users in the United States exceeds 1 million."

Simon smiled and nodded, but then shook his head and said: "It's still a bit conservative. Maybe you can set the goal at 10 million."

In the original time and space, the World Wide Web was announced to be free and open in 1993, and graphical interface browsers appeared, and America Online began to grow explosively. By 1996, the number of users exceeded 10 million.

Now, Simon has released the World Wide Web technical standards three years in advance, developed the graphical interface browser, and launched a comprehensive portal business in advance to ensure sufficient Internet content.
Chapter completed!