In the end, the bet between Yu Dong and Yu Hua was completed. Both parties were very confident about this bet.
From Yu Dong's point of view, it would not be too difficult to get Bi Feiyu's account to have one million fans in two years' time. At that time, the number of Deep Space Tribe's users would start at tens of millions.
In the eyes of Bi Feiyu and Yu Hua, one million is really an unattainable number. Let alone Bi Feiyu's account, even those celebrities want to break through one million in two years.
What an easy thing.
If Wang Xiaobo were here, he would definitely not make this bet with Yu Dong.
Yu Hua and Bi Feiyu are good writers, but they don’t know much about the Internet, and their vision is not even as good as that of ordinary netizens.
But Wang Xiaobo is different. After all, Wang Xiaobo studies mathematics and is very knowledgeable about computers, so his acumen in the Internet is better than Yu Dong's. It's just that he lacks the advantage of Yu Dong's rebirth.
While playing cards yesterday, Wang Xiaobo half-jokingly said that Deep Space Tribe might have over 100 million users one day.
At that time, neither Bi Feiyu nor Yu Hua took these words seriously, thinking that Wang Xiaobo was just joking. However, Yu Dong knew that Wang Xiaobo had carefully considered what he said.
From the beginning, Deep Space Tribe had an advantage over other websites because it took into account various languages ​​very carefully.
This can be regarded as a lesson learned from icq.
icq has given too little consideration to other areas in the East, resulting in poor development in other areas.
After talking about the bet, Yu Dong asked Yu Hua, "Are you signing any deals today?"
"Yes, yes." Yu Hua nodded.
Yu Dong looked at the clock on the wall and said, "It's almost eight o'clock, why don't you leave yet?"
"I'm about to leave, why don't I call you now? Didn't you say you're going to Little Bear Bookstore today too?"
Yu Dong rolled his eyes, "I'm going in the afternoon. I have an appointment with Gong Youli and his daughter to meet at three o'clock. Why are you going so early?"
Yu Hua directly took Yu Dongge's arm, "Anyway, you have nothing to do in the morning, let's go there together, it's boring to stay in the hotel."
"Not boring at all..."
Yu Dong's protest was ineffective and he was pulled out of the room by Yu Hua and Bi Feiyu. Then the three of them went to find Wang Xiaobo and went to Little Bear Bookstore together.
…
Looking at the long queue at the door of Little Bear Bookstore, Yu Dong couldn't help but sigh secretly. The publicity for Yu Hua and the others in recent years has been very effective. It can be intuitively felt from the scene of the book signing that Yu Hua is now signing
There were many more people at the sales meeting than before.
In fact, Yu Hua's popularity is not very high in the United States. He is more popular in several European countries, such as France, Italy, Spain and other countries.
The car stopped at the door and several people got out together.
The readers lined up at the door cheered when they saw them together.
Readers came to attend Yu Hua's book signing, and now I have met four of them. This kind of buy-one-get-three-free deal is really wonderful.
Amid cheers from readers, the four of them entered the bookstore. Yu Hua was taken to the autograph table by the staff, while Yu Dong and the three of them went to the rest area on the fourth floor.
As soon as he sat down, Bi Feiyu took out a deck of cards and shouted that he wanted to play Landlords, which is two against one.
Wang Xiaobo looked at the surrounding bookshelves and said with a smile, "Isn't it bad to play cards in a bookstore? This should be a paradise for learning knowledge, not a carnival for gamblers."
The words he spoke were awe-inspiring, but he had already taken the poker from Bi Feiyu's hand and shuffled the cards skillfully.
Bi Feiyu smiled and excused their behavior, "Without a jackpot, it's not gambling. It's just a puzzle game at most."
Wang Xiaobo joked: "Old Bi, you are so smart because you play so many puzzle games."
"That's natural. Playing puzzle games is better than drinking alcohol every day."
"I haven't drank for a long time." Wang Xiaobo muttered.
Wang Xiaobo loved to drink, and he drank uncontrollably. The reason why he returned to Jinyi at that time was because he fell ill and almost met the King of Hell.
At that time, the doctor told him not to drink, and he listened. After going to Jinyi, he did not drink for a long time.
But as soon as he recovered a little bit, his old habits started to fall back on him.
Last winter, Liu Xinwu came to Jinling, and the two of them drank from another bottle of wine.
Later, Yu Dong and the others discovered that the two drunk people had already finished one bottle, so they gathered some peanuts and braised pork and started drinking.
Seeing Wang Xiaobo's drunken state, Yu Dong and others surrounded Liu Xinwu and scolded him.
Liu Xinwu was older than Yu Dong and others, but he had nothing to say when they criticized him for this matter. In fact, he was also deceived by Wang Xiaobo. Wang Xiaobo told Liu Xinwu that his physical illness was completely cured and drinking would not hurt him.
Since then, Yu Dong and the others would always bring this matter up to punish Wang Xiaobo.
…
Before the first round of cards was drawn, Jimmy came over with a slightly bald middle-aged man.
Jimmy smiled and said, "I know what you are doing. This card must have been brought by Teacher Bi."
Bi Feiyu smiled and said: "The one who knows me is Jimmy."
After saying hello, Jimmy introduced the middle-aged man next to them, "This is Mr. Tim O'Reilly, the founder of O'Reilly Media. I heard that Yu Dong was here yesterday and said he wanted to meet. We are
We rushed here from the hotel, and when we passed by, I heard that you all came to the bookstore."
"It's not like that guy Yu Hua insists on dragging us here."
"I knew that was the case." Jimmy nodded with a smile, and then introduced the three of them to Tim O'Reilly in English.
O'Reilly shook hands with Yu Dong and the others, and then said with a smile, "Actually, I know all three of you, and I have read your works."
Jimmy smiled and said, "By the way, I forgot to introduce him. Mr. O'Reilly is not only a talented businessman, but also a writer who specializes in writing technical articles. However, he majored in classics at Harvard University and read a lot.
"
Hearing this, Yu Dong and the other three nodded.
There is no such thing as classics in China, but the domestic ancient literature and ancient literature majors are somewhat similar to the classical majors, and they will all involve the study of ancient documents.
Generally speaking, the scope of classics is wider, not only designing literary documents but also involving theology, philosophy, academic history, art history...
Bi Feiyu first looked at Yu Dong, and then at Wang Xiaobo.
He thought it was quite interesting.
Tim O'Reilly graduated from Harvard University with a major in classics, but eventually became the founder of a media company and studies the Internet every day.
Yu Dong has a similar experience to Tim O'Reilly. He graduated from the Chinese Department of Yan Normal University and became a well-known writer and the boss of a large comprehensive company.
Wang Xiaobo is completely opposite to the two of them. Wang Xiaobo studied mathematics, taught accounting in college, and also learned computers through mathematics. His computer skills are very high, but in the end he gave up his studies and became a writer.
Tim O'Reilly looked at the cards on the table that had not been drawn yet and said with a smile, "Isn't it disturbing your game?"
Bi Feiyu shook his head, "No, you guys came just in time."
He took out another deck of cards from his pocket and said, "We can play egg beating now."
"Whipped egg?"
"It is a very popular game in China. A total of four people are divided into two groups, and the two people sitting opposite form a group..."
Jimmy briefly explained the egg-cracking method to O'Reilly, who showed great interest in this method and quickly joined in.
The four of them were playing cards, Jimmy was watching, and the five of them started chatting casually.
O'Reilly said while grabbing cards, "Mr. Wang's novels are very interesting. I particularly like the article "A Special Pig". Not only is the pig in the article very special, its author is also a very special person.
.There doesn’t seem to be much resistance in this article, but in fact there is resistance everywhere..."
Speaking of Wang Xiaobo's works, O'Reilly talked eloquently. After talking about "A Maverick Pig", he talked about "The Golden Age". After talking about Wang Xiaobo's, he talked about Bi Feiyu's. After talking about Feiyu's,
Yu’s, and finally Yu Dong’s.
"...I took the liberty of asking Jimmy to give me a copy of "The Da Vinci Code" in advance, but he refused. However, I will still go to the bookstore to buy a copy on the day it goes on sale."
I have to say that O'Reilly does understand their works, and that's not a polite statement.
These words made the three of them have a good impression of him.
In fact, Yu Dong has heard of Tim O'Reilly's name. It is said that he has made very important contributions to the development of Internet technology, but Yu Dong does not know what specific contributions he made.
Oles is very interested in Deep Space Tribe. He thinks Deep Space Tribe is the best website in recent years. He is also the sixteenth user of Deep Space Tribe and often shares some technical articles on the website.
Nick was the first person to publish the "Deep Space Tribe Operation Guide" online, and thus attracted a group of fans. However, Nick's guides and strategies were all quick-finished products, and the quality was not particularly high.
The person who really teaches people how to play Deep Space Tribe is O'Reilly. For this reason, he specially published a very long article to tell people how to get a good experience in Deep Space Tribe.
In addition to making suggestions to users, he also often makes suggestions to the website, so the relationship between O'Reilly and Jimmy is getting better and better.
He was very interested when he heard that Yu Dong came over this time, because he had heard from Jimmy before that the Deep Space Tribe was actually mostly Yu Dong's idea.
After talking about literature, O'Reilly shifted the topic to the Internet, "Deep Space Tribe will be a good springboard. I believe it won't be long before people spend more time on it than ICQ. Since AOL took over ICQ
After that, their development went into a misunderstanding, always trying to use more functions to attract users. But the problem is that so many functions are not what users want, and they will also make the software very heavy. Such a
This software, let alone in developing countries, even in the United States, will eventually be abandoned by users."
What O'Reilly said is basically similar to what Yu Dong and Jimmy analyzed before.
In fact, AOL is aware of this, but they still keep launching new features to attract users. It's not that they are stupid, but that this trick is really effective and can help them attract customers.
As for whether these customers will abandon the software in the future because it is too complicated, AOL doesn't care... Actually, it's not that they don't care, but there is no good way, because users just want new features.
Zhang said he wanted this, and Li said he wanted that. In order to satisfy more users, they worked hard to develop new features. This would ensure that new users would continue to flow in, and they would also have more ways to make money.
Dongdong will definitely gradually add functions in the future, but if you want to increase user stickiness and let them choose Dongdong between icq and Dongdong, some other means are needed.
Yu Dong smiled and said: "There is no conflict between ICQ and the Deep Space Tribe. If it weren't for Dongdong, I would very much hope to cooperate with them."
The reason why Yu Dong mentioned Dong Dong was because he wanted to hear O'Reilly talk about Dong Dong.
However, O'Reilly did not follow what Yu Dong said. Instead, he said something completely unrelated, "The connectivity of the Internet is still not strong enough and the efficiency is not enough. If we can develop a method for third-party customers
When people access the services of a certain website, efficiency will be greatly improved."
Yu Dong was confused when he heard this and didn't know what it meant. Wang Xiaobo raised his eyebrows and said, "This idea is quite good, but if you want to develop this kind of service, what you need to solve is how to calculate and process the huge data."
The program is decomposed into countless small programs, and then processed and analyzed by a system composed of some servers to obtain the results and return them to third-party clients."
Yu Dong understood some of this. Isn't it similar to cloud services?
O'Reilly was very surprised when he heard Wang Xiaobo's words, "Mr. Wang, I didn't expect you to know so much about computer technology."
Wang Xiaobo smiled and waved his hand, and said very modestly, "I'm just usually more interested, so I learned more about it."
Jimmy smiled and said, "Tim, he is not simply interested. His level is very high. In China, the software he uses is all written by himself."
O'Reilly gave a thumbs up, "That's really impressive."
In fact, when it comes to computing technology, O'Reilly is not as good as Wang Xiaobo. The Internet issues he focuses on are all major aspects and generally do not involve underlying technologies.
Yu Dong asked: "Is it difficult to implement this kind of service?"
Wang Xiaobo nodded, "Of course there are difficulties, but...actually I can't say. After all, I don't know much about the current development of network technology. Why don't you go back and ask the company's engineers for their answers?"
More useful than mine."
Jimmy laughed at the side and said: "I have already asked. It is not difficult to develop this kind of service. What is difficult is the subsequent operation and maintenance, which requires a lot of investment. In addition, the investment of these funds is likely to be temporary.
You won’t get anything in return for a while.”
Chapter completed!