Chapter 551： You are a very interesting person

Located at Los Angeles International Airport, only about five kilometers from Firefly Studios, Eric sent people back to Malibu and came to Firefly Studios with Jeffrey.

August is usually the busiest period for Hollywood studios. Although the summer file has come to an end, most of the big-production movies for the end of the year and the big summer movies for the second year are officially entered during this time. The production process, the autumn TV series also started shooting at this time, Eric sat in the business car through the park, and saw a busy scene in the studio, outside the studio on the main road of the studio park It is full of all kinds of vehicles, and the wide parking lot is also full of cars.

When I got out of the car, Jeffrey and Eric walked out of the parking lot and said: "From the current situation, the ten studios in the park are no longer enough. We discussed this issue at the last week's meeting. We feel that it is enough to expand the park to the west and build at least five more studios. The final plan will be made in the next few days, just come back and get your idea."

"Well, let's talk about it later," Eric nodded. He remembered that Warner Burbank's studio had more than 20 studios. Although the size was different, the fireflies studios were only a few in number. not enough.

However, Eric did not immediately express his position. He still said that it would be best after seeing the final expansion plan. After all, his personal momentary thoughts could not be better than the plan developed by the firefly professional strategic development department. For the management of fireflies, Eric will usually only give a negative opinion when the company's film and television industry development trend in the program and memory is left. For the details that are not clear to you and will not affect the overall situation. Eric usually does not intervene. No mistakes can occur in any company development process.

Going through the concrete ramp outside the parking lot and going to the studio to go to the small square bordering the digital office area, Jeffrey said: "The recent "Vampire Visiting Night" is here, do you want to go to the scene to see? ”

Eric glanced at the crowded studio area and shook his head: "I don't need it for a while, I will take the time to check the samples that have been taken."

According to the plan, the firefly will release three films: "Night Vampire", "Detective Aircraft Head 2" and "Pulp Fiction" at the end of the year. For commercial films that have been successful in previous life, unless they are particularly interested, Eric will generally follow the original version of the memory, and for films that are not directed by him personally, Eric’s main control is the script and later. Editing, and at the same time looking for a master similar to the original style, in the process of shooting, unless the producer and the director simultaneously took the wind and the wind to get ridiculous, Eric generally does not intervene, and this kind of thing until now Eric has not met.

Judging from the box office results of a series of films from "Small Island Cry" a few years ago to "Smiths" with Sony. This solution adopted by Eric is very effective. Moreover, Hollywood is very well developed in the industrial process. Because the division of labor at each stage is very clear, there is not much resistance to the implementation of this program. There are very few directors in Hollywood who are strong enough to take all the control of the film, and such as James Cameron has the strength to gain control. Eric will also give the whole project to the other party with great confidence.

Compared with the noisy area of ​​the studio, the digital field seems to be orderly. Eric and Jeffrey chatted about the sky and went to the administrative building. From time to time, they greeted the passing or unknown employees and soon came. Eric's exclusive office in the studio, because of the long time no one, although still clean and tidy, but the empty office is significantly less popular.

Eric’s assistant team office is located at Burbank’s headquarters, so there is no permanent secretary, but the general manager responsible for the park management soon sent his own secretary to help Eric and Jeffrey make some coffee. Scattered trivia.

Sitting down in the office, the mobile phones that Eric carried with him began to sound from time to time. Most of them were some of the fireflies’ high-level phones. A small number of them learned from various channels that Eric returned to Los Angeles to greet them. However, Everyone knows that Eric has just gone on a long flight, so he didn't mean to bother.

Jeffrey watched Eric sitting down in the leather chair, skillfully turning on the computer on the desk, drinking a cup of coffee from the secretary, and chatting a few words, Jeffrey got up and right. Eric said: "Since there is nothing, I will leave first. If you have just returned, don't be too busy, go back to rest early."

"I will send you," Eric also followed, and sent Jeffrey into the elevator before returning to the office.

Although the Internet has developed very rapidly, hotmail's online email service is still limited to the United States. This has caused Eric to use the mail to communicate with the parties in time after leaving the US. This is also Eric in Europe and A very tangled thing in Japan.

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

After the Yahoo portal was launched at the end of last year, Eric put forward a lot of ideas to Yahoo's technical team based on past memories. According to Eric's suggestion and current software and hardware support, the Yahoo team once again carried out the homepage. Revised.

At this time, Eric sees Yahoo's new homepage. The left-hand theme box is from top to bottom, followed by hotmail mailbox entry, Yahoo information section and Yahoo forum section, and the right side is the URL navigation interface including search function. .

In memory, Eric’s past life saw Yahoo’s homepage in the university’s computer room in 1995. The most profound memory of Eric’s memory was the four red 彤彤’s two cakes on the Yahoo home’s yahoo logo. The human feeling is like the four mahjong on the homepage, plus the overall very exaggerated design, it now feels very funny.

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

Both Yahoo! and Yahoo! Forums were launched under the advice of Eric. In the vision of Eric. The section of Yahoo! Information will be getting bigger and bigger. In the end, Yahoo will be transformed into a news-based portal.

However, at the current scale of Internet users, Yahoo! Information is unlikely to compete with paper media and TV media, and it is still at the stage of exploration. At this stage, Yahoo mainly focuses on the development of the forum. In order to rapidly expand the size of the forum users, Yahoo directly accesses the user group of hotmail, and does not establish a separate user database. Although this is subject to some criticisms of the Yahoo team, Rick's boss insisted. This measure was implemented very quickly. When Yahoo and Hotmail were developed separately for a few years, Eric planned to integrate the two companies. After all, with hotmail, Eric could not let Yahoo again. Develop a separate email service.

Although Yahoo! has just developed, but through cooperation with some media, the information in the Yahoo! Information section is much more than the number of newspapers that ordinary people see every day. Although a lot of information is lagging behind, it is just suitable for Erik. For a long time, I have not paid attention to people in the United States.

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

In addition to many box office news for Jurassic Park. The biggest thing that happened in Hollywood in the last year, of course, was the bidding for Paramount by Viacom and QV.

After the two sides failed to increase the price at the beginning of the year, there were several small-scale confrontations during the period, but then, Viacom’s Lei Shidong, in order to save more power, halfway the merger to the largest video tape rental in the United States. Selling company Baishida, Viacom spearheaded, Paramount also put aside the negotiations with qv.

From some recent news, Lei Shidong has basically completed negotiations with Baishida. It is expected that by the end of September, the merger and acquisition of both parties will be completed, once Viacom wins the Baishida, and the videotape With the huge cash flow of the rental company and the debt financing brought by this asset mortgage, Viacom’s chances of winning Paramount will increase greatly.

On the qv side, although Barry Diller did not relax the efforts of the acquisition of Ramon, the remote communication of one of the two shareholders of QV has begun negotiations with another US communications giant at&t, and the merger case The main body is at&t. Once at&t completes the acquisition of the telecom company, then qv’s acquisition of Paramount’s support is halved. Therefore, most media in the United States are currently not optimistic about Barry Diller’s acquisition of Paramount.

After reading these news, Eric thought about other things. In his memory, Viacom completed the acquisition of Paramount with a huge sum of billions of dollars. It was not a few years ago because the name was called. The rise of the online rental chain of Netflix (li) has caused Viacom's huge acquisition of BesTV to shrink sharply in both business and market capitalization.

Thinking of Naifei, Eric’s habitually sinister smile came out on his face, but this matter is not anxious. To establish Naifei, you must first realize a convenient online payment channel and want to realize convenient online payment. Definitely want to develop e-commerce.

Everything has to be done step by step.

Eric sighed, but turned off the Yahoo information page and opened the Yahoo forum. Because of the limitations of the network conditions, Yahoo! Forum currently only provides the theme section in a targeted manner. Users want to create a topic forum that they are interested in. Building your own website, but in any case, the Yahoo Forum with hotmail user base is definitely the largest communication community on the Internet.

The online communication forum is very new for many Internet users. Eric has randomly selected several forums to visit and found that users in all sections are very active. However, he also found some minor problems in the forum. Users do not have any other logos other than personal nicknames.

In memory, the simplest user identification, of course, is the classification of the level, and the introduction of the user rating system can also greatly improve the user adhesion of the website.

Simply Cisco for a while, Eric opened the mailbox and intended to send the proposal to the Yahoo and hotmail teams.

Although Eric is not in the United States during this time, there are still dozens of unread emails from various sources in the mailbox. Now the number of mailboxes for ordinary users is of course limited, but this problem cannot exist in Eric. Body.

I first wrote out the idea and sent it out, and Eric began to process the mail accumulated in the mailbox.

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

I took a look and was the current person in charge of hotmail, the person named Steve Mitnick in Chris.

Eric opened it curiously and found that there was only one sentence: What is the user's adhesion?

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 the commonly used grammar, it is impossible to know what it means. This is why Westerners often suffer from it. The cause of dyslexia.

When Eric just sent an e-mail, it was impossible to create a new word. He just put together the two words of adhesion and degree to form a new phrase. He did not know that it was inappropriate.

When I saw the other person's problem, Eric thought for a moment and quickly knocked out an explanatory statement to reply to the past.

A reply email soon appeared in the computer, still Steve Mitnick: very interesting theory, you are also a very interesting person.

Eric returned: If you are boasting me, then thank you.

After a few tens of seconds, the reply came again: I am of course boasting you, for us, you are Jesus.

Eric is amazed: Why do you say that?

Steve Mitnick: Because you have invested more than $50 million in three companies without any profit prospects, this is a lot of money. In the past, we didn’t have enough money to realize Now, you can make these things, so you are of course like **** to us.

Eric couldn't help but smile: I was just investing in the future.

Steve Mitnick: Can you see the future?

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

Steve Mitnick: Oh, what?

Eric: Instant messaging software, if you can develop an instant messaging software, then we can chat without email. Do you think there is any prospect for this idea?

The other side was silent for a while before I recovered again: very good ideas, and technical requirements are not high, give me 5 million, I will make the finished product within three months.

Eric decisively replied: No problem, in addition, you are also a very interesting person, have a chance to see.

Steve Mitnick: Ok. (To be continued...)