Chapter 495 Pandora's Box
"This..."
Li Dongling didn't know what to answer. He couldn't say that one out of every fifty Americans believed this. Come up with a theory.
In America alone, there are more than 6 million believers in the Flat Earth Theory. Looking at the world, this proportion of believers in the Flat Earth Theory is almost incalculable in the face of billions of people in the world.
“What he said seems to make sense!”
Before Li Dongling spoke, a voice came from behind everyone. Looking back, he turned out to be Justin Frank, the technical genius from Himalaya Silicon Valley Company.
Seeing everyone’s eyes on him with a strange expression, Justin Frank shrugged his shoulders, “I don’t agree with his theory, but some things are true. Seeing is believing!
I have decided that for the rest of my life, I must go to space to see what the world we live in is like.”
Always carry it with me! Justin Frank, who has the unique solitary style of a genius, seems to have found a new goal in life.
Justin Frank also knows that with his size, if he wants to go to space, it will probably cost a lot of money to achieve this goal. He at least needs to first To achieve financial freedom.
"Crazy!"
Zhou Hualiang saw the excited look on Justin Frank's body, and he couldn't help but have this idea in his mind. It was the first time that he saw going to space as his life goal. , he felt that Joely Kings’ brain circuit was abnormal when buying goods, and I’m afraid Justin wouldn’t be much better either.
Whether it is Joely Kings or Justin Frank, Zhou Hualiang cannot understand how their brain circuits are developed.
“How is the sound quality of the Himalayan website?!” Li Dongling asked the professional sound quality personnel in the technical department.
“Not too good!”
After saying this, the technician quickly added, "Compared to CDs and vinyl records, the sound quality loss of the Himalayan website is probably unacceptable to music professionals!
< br>But for ordinary users, the digital sound quality of the Ximalaya website will not notice much change."
"Does it mean that the sound quality of the Ximalaya website has passed the test?" Li Dongling asked directly.
“Yes!”
The sound quality professional technician thought for a moment and nodded.
The audio used by Himalaya is MP3 compression technology, which can compress a 40M 16-bit WAV format file into an MP3 with 3.5M memory. This is equivalent to a fifteen-song, 700M-sized CD record, which only requires fifteen MP3 files of 3.5M size can be saved on a computer, and songs or pictures can be circulated among computer users. In fact, there is already a technical foundation.
To put it more bluntly, with this technology, when Internet P2P technology becomes popular, songs without copyright will begin to flood on the Internet. By then, traditional records alone will not be able to sell them at all. Don't move, the hard days of America and the five major European records are coming...
When the major record giants such as Columbia Records, EMI, Sony Records, Universal, and BMG, due to the proliferation of pirated music, When life is almost unbearable.
At that time, Himalayan Radio could appear in front of them as a savior like iTunes and Spotify in the previous life, launching genuine music, paired with Shenzhou high-end MP3s owned by Donglin Hi-Tech, and fearing Sony, EMI and others don't take the bait and open their music copyright library to Himalaya? !
Ximalaya's future transformation into a genuine music platform will also be crucial to Tanglin Hi-Tech's MP3, tablet and other businesses.
Compared with Himalaya's transformation into a music platform, which generates billions of dollars in revenue from genuine digital music every year, how much revenue can it get from playing pirated music, not to mention endless lawsuits with several major record giants?
Which pirated music platform dares to say that it can earn two billion US dollars a year? In the previous life, Apple, in 2007, when it launched the iTunes platform, its annual revenue could reach two billion US dollars.
The later Himalayan website can also increase profits from pictures, TV series, movies, etc. These are genuine money earned, and the money earned is fair and square. It is also the major record giants such as Sony, Disney and other Hollywood movie giants. Records, movies Copyright is entering an era of collapse on the Internet, please cooperate with Himalaya!
Of course, compared to selling genuine songs, movies, podcasts, novels, etc., Tanglin Hi-Tech launches high-end MP3s, which can play a greater role when paired with the Himalayan website. The high-end MP3 market is more profitable than the record industry. There are so many!
Apple’s MP3 device iPod, from its launch to its discontinuation, at its peak, this product model could bring Apple 89 billion in annual revenue, and the total revenue exceeded 70 billion Dollar!
Apple can earn this money, so why can't Tanglin Hi-tech? Of course, if it were Tanglin Hi-tech, the income might not be as high as Apple's, but Tanglin Hi-tech will definitely earn this money.
Li Dongling nodded, "After the first batch of podcasts are uploaded, we will arrange for Himalaya to go online!"
"In addition, the technical upgrade of the Himalaya website cannot be stopped. In the future, every In half a month, we need to technically upgrade the Himalaya website so that it takes up minimal computer resources and provides users with the best sound quality!
In addition, we need to add background running programs, that is, users can You can work, play games, etc. on the computer screen, but Ximalaya still runs in the background and continues to serve users. In addition, we will develop some plug-in functions. These pictures or dynamic graphics plug-ins can be produced by the Ximalaya website, and users can also make their own. You won’t feel bored when you open the Himalayan website to listen to the program!”
Hearing Li Dongling's request, Lu Kui couldn't help but his eyes lit up. When listening to podcasts or songs, if there are dynamic graphics, even simple changes, in this era, it is enough to make users feel cool. , full of sense of technology.
As a technical genius, Justin couldn't help but look towards the big benefactor when he heard what Li Dongling mentioned.
As a technician, he knew that based on the conditions Li Dongling proposed, there were indeed requirements for technology development and computer hardware conditions.
Not to mention software technology, the background running program alone made Justin feel a little amazing. This technology must be developed, but no one has ever thought of it before. Sometimes, geniuses All program developers may not have genius ideas!
In terms of hardware, more memory, processors, graphics cards, sound cards, speakers, etc. are also needed. If Himalayan Radio can become popular, who knows, it will also allow users to use sound cards, speakers, graphics cards and other components. Upgrade again and drive a wave of demand...
This is just like graphics cards. Every time a 3A masterpiece game is released, a wave of top-end graphics cards will be shipped. Games are the catalyst for graphics card manufacturers to upgrade!
"These software program technologies need you to do it, Justin. Of course, in the future, you will also get enough funds from Himalaya to go to space!"
Li Dongling gave Justin , poured a bowl of poisonous chicken soup, it's like the boss will switch to a Land Rover next year as long as the cows and horses suffer.
Of course, for a talented programmer like Justin, he will not be treated badly. As long as he stays in Himalaya, it will not be difficult to obtain option rewards in the future.
The entire Himalayan Silicon Valley office has become completely busy, constantly uploading new podcast content to the server, and also starting to publish it on Yahoo, Netscape, ASK, Soxin, IE browser and other websites. , began to place ads for Himalayas.
Not only is the Silicon Valley office busy, but Himalayan Radio in the interior is also preparing to go online.
It’s just that inland Himalaya and American Himalaya use the same brand, but the content of the two websites cannot be said to be similar, they are almost completely different...
Content Lu's Himalayan website mainly focuses on songs, audio novels, operas, storytelling, etc. In the future, Himalayan's own content will also be launched, but it will mainly focus on the above content.
As for the American Himalayan website, in the early days because it was unable to purchase song copyrights, it could only focus on self-made podcast content and open radio stations.
“Ximalaya FM Radio, let the world listen to your voice!”
This is the slogan put out by the Himalayan website, and it is also the title you see on the homepage after entering the website.
The Himalayan website was launched in America. On the day it was launched, it was not widely publicized in traditional media. It was mainly used to attract traffic on websites such as Netscape and Yahoo. As for the effect...
"Currently, the number of user visits is less than a thousand, and the number of clicks and views is even lower!"
In the office of Himalaya Silicon Valley, Lu Kui said nervously while looking at the number of website visits in the background.
The current number of Internet users in America is more than 20 million. Internet users in all of Asia combined are not as large as America’s Internet market. This is why Silicon Valley companies look down on other markets.
From the time I opened the site in the morning, it has already taken more than one morning. As a result, the number of visits is less than 1,000, not to mention the click-through rate.
Lu Kui and the management of Himalaya Silicon Valley Office couldn't help but feel a little anxious, and Zhou Hualiang also looked a little solemn.
But Li Dongling seemed to have a normal expression, and he would discuss a few words with Yao Luoying in a low voice from time to time, until the phone in the office rang.
"Larson!"
The call was from Larson. After Li Dongling put down the phone, he clapped his hands and said, "Guys, keep working. There must be enough backup servers. , I don’t want to see the Ximalaya website go down due to too many user visits.”
When Lu Kui and others heard this, a question mark appeared on their foreheads. Just this morning, there were not even 1,000 visits. Do they still need a backup server?
No matter what Lu Kui’s expression was, Li Dongling explained to Zhou Hualiang, “Tell Joey Kings and Logan, the podcast creators signed by Himalaya, that when they are interviewed by the media, they must speak according to the words given to them. , be sure to mention the Himalayan website!”
(End of this chapter)