Chapter 342 Offensive
In the Tudou office.
"Hello, Mr. Friedman." Wang Wei warmly received a special guest, Thomas Fried, New York Times columnist and author of "The World is Flat" Man.
This guest is no ordinary person. He is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, the most influential non-governmental figure on the Middle East, and the writer of the famous foreign affairs column of the New York Times.
With "From Jerusalem to Beirut" written in 1989, he won the National Book Award, the highest award for non-fiction works.
Thomas Friedman has a round face, a thick mustache under his nose, and a serious look on his face.
He shook hands with Wang Wei and asked curiously: "This place is different from what I thought."
Wang Wei asked curiously: "The potatoes in your imagination What does the Internet look like? "
"This is not like a start-up company, it behaves like a company that is on track," Thomas Friedman said. "There are many start-up companies in the United States. The geeks can’t even afford to rent an office building.”
Wang Wei said with a smile: “It’s the same for me. At first we rented an office in a residential building, and the living room was our workspace. It’s different now.”
"It can be seen that you should have sufficient funds." Thomas Friedman sat down and took out the recording pen, "Then can we start?"
"Okay." Wang Wei sat up straight. Body, then asked, "Where do we start."
"How about starting with the concept of Web 2.0?" Thomas Friedman asked.
“This is a very good topic.” Wang Wei began to talk and discussed the concept of Web2.0 with the other party.
The conversation between Friedman and Wang Wei lasted for two and a half hours, and both parties completed the interview in a friendly atmosphere.
Thomas Friedman stood up, shook hands with Wang Wei and said goodbye, and said politely: "Mr. Wang, your achievements at such a young age are remarkable. I wish you good luck."
"Thank you." Wang Wei was somewhat flattered, "Mr. Thomas Friedman, I have been reading your column for 10 years. You can say that I am your loyal fan."
"Oh, really, I can sign it for you." Thomas Friedman said humorously, "You have to be prepared. Whenever I write about someone, the website will be shut down."
Wang Wei was a little excited. , "I'm looking forward to it."
Wang Wei is now very proud. Since YouTube was acquired by Microsoft for US$2.3 billion, his financing path has become smooth.
Soon, he received $19 million in Series B financing.
Through the previous "Video Website Industry Report", Wang Wei also discovered the magical power of public opinion. A good website is not as good as the media boasts.
It is not as good as outsiders to do it yourself. If Americans do it, the effect will be better.
After being contacted by a friend, Wang Wei accepted an interview with this famous reporter, and the interview content was published in the New York Times column the next day under the title "Chinese People Find Their Own Voice".
With YouTube before and Yiku.com behind, this column interviewing Tudou quickly spread online.
Not only was it circulated on the American Internet, but it was also reprinted and praised by industry insiders on the Chinese Internet.
Many people in the industry wrote on blogs, saying that "China's new Internet era is coming."
Wang Wei took this opportunity and suddenly published an article on his blog, "How to cross the mountain of Qvod."
In the article, Wang Wei wrote eloquently about how Qvod.com squeezed out and swallowed up the living space of other peers during its rapid development.
In this crusade, Wang Wei first targeted the campus network.
In the fierce market competition, Qubao.com has monopolized the social platform through vicious competition. It uses this shameful method to prevent other peers from distributing their content on social networking sites normally.
“A healthy market should allow a hundred flowers to bloom and a hundred schools of thought to contend, attracting users with high-quality content, rather than using advantages to monopolize and suppress opponents.”
“Starting from today, the Anti-Quabo Alliance will officially declare its disgraceful Protest against the means of competition!”
At the end of the blog, Wang Wei also listed the list of the “Anti-Quick Broadcast Alliance”. As soon as this article was published, many comments and reprints immediately followed it, criticizing the behavior of Qvod.com.
Some well-known scholars and Internet celebrities have called the behavior of campus networks "underhanded tactics."
As a social networking site, the campus network should have a sense of social responsibility. It should become an open and inclusive platform and should accommodate different voices, rather than banning the voices of other websites across the board.
“I can’t help but fall into deep reflection, why in the Internet that claims to be open, the campus network behaves like this. It can be seen that the Chinese people cannot tolerate other people’s voices.”
This country Why, Ding Xi asked, as soon as the combination of punches I fell into came out, someone immediately followed up.
Although the routine of criticizing Sang and Huai is old, it is still very effective, and it quickly aroused public opinion.
Wang Wei immediately took advantage of this opportunity to announce that Tudou would support more high-quality content creators.
The "Tudou Broadcasting Star Award" has also been established to openly solicit outstanding video content with large sums of money.
The special prize is one million yuan (1 person), the first prize is 300,000 yuan (1 person), the second prize is 100,000 yuan (2 people), the third prize is 50,000 yuan (3 people), outstanding The award is RMB 10,000 (for 50 people), and the creativity award is from RMB 1 to 3,000 (several).
The million-level grand prize fell, causing a sensation immediately.
For a time, professional and non-professional video creators from all walks of life were gearing up and opening accounts on Tudou.com, ready to show off their talents.
Tudou.com immediately became another popular video website after Yiku.com, and it seemed to have the momentum to be on par with Qvod.com.
While Wang Wei was using the weapon of public opinion to kill people, Youku.com was not idle either.
Gu Yongqiang also used his connections to complete a new round of financing, obtaining US$12 million in funding, and then released his own "Rising Star Plan".
Youku.com will reward creators based on the number of video views, up to one million levels.
Other video websites have also received part of the funds and are gearing up to start a big fight.
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“Tsk, tsk, it’s still a characteristic of this era. I haven’t seen a similar article for a long time. This tastes authentic.”
Qin Shaoyan was browsing posts about criticizing the campus network on the Internet and couldn’t help but say Feeling emotional.
After all, what is this country like? The public intellectuals and eight-part essays that I am obsessed with have become extinct in later generations. You can’t even see the public intellectuals of the Tomb Sect crawling out to work.
One thing to say, in this era, it is known that there are still two brushes. Putting aside the content and IQ, at least the article can be written in a decent manner.
Ten years later, people who cannot understand a lot of things, are confused, and can't even write a long sentence can come out as rebels.
Really, weasels are laying waste to mice, and one litter is worse than the next.
Next to me, Zhang Pingyi's eyes widened when he read the comments. He found that Qin Shaoyan was still thinking about teasing, and he suddenly became anxious.
“Why do you still have time to comment?” Zhang Pingyi said impatiently, “Now the public opinion is very unfavorable to us, and the target is all directed at the campus network, what should we do?”
"Don't you realize this is a good phenomenon?" Qin Shaoyan said interestingly.
"It's a damn good thing, how did you see it?" Zhang Pingyi was speechless immediately.
"Our colleagues have money to buy gunmen to build public opinion. What does this mean?" Qin Shaoyan laughed, "This means that the situation has improved. It is not a small good, but a big good!"
"Mr. Qin!" Zhang Minyi said helplessly and angrily, "You just watch them scolding the campus network, you have to do something?"
Facing the turbulent public opinion at this time, Qin Shaoyan unexpectedly Still in the mood to joke?
(End of this chapter)