Digital Life (Absolut01) - Chapter 16

[16.]

After New Year’s Day, everyone has a period of time to be busy.

Peng Hannian, Hang Ying and Lou Jiaming are busy with resignation and job handover from their original units. Hang Ying has to move home from Beijing back to Shanghai. It takes a week to 10 days for all kinds of things.

After all, Su Yunhai still has to manage the company, and the new year has just arrived, and this time is the peak of job-hopping. Although most of the things do not need him to personally ask, but there will be no shortage of things, not to mention the technical personnel and technical personnel needed by digital totem. Designers must implement it as soon as possible.

Lu Zhenyu, on the other hand, has to go back to school and continue to struggle with his schoolwork. In early February, the final exam of the semester will be held. Although Lu Zhenyu, who has been attending classes on time, is not worried about the attendance rate and academic performance, he is now tight and he is not too concerned about it. Put more energy on your schoolwork, and you can only be careful not to capsize in the gutter.

After going to the 7791 Institute once, the Institute threw him a bunch of information, although it was not classified, just some information on aerodynamics, guidance and flight control, fuel and rocket power, and various development trends of missile weapons. , are basically public and semi-public publications, so that Lu Zhenyu can have a basic understanding of this field, but Lu Zhenyu still needs to take time to digest the material with a total weight of more than 40 kilograms as soon as possible.

In addition, he will continue to publish technical parameters, materials, principles and upload some new plug-ins for a period of time to keep users and the media’s attention to the voice platform.

Today’s media is very capable of hyping things up, and the big things may be reported in several rounds, and they will be heard in the streets.

The number of voice platform users seems to be huge now, but how many of them are actually using the voice platform instead of purely for fun or attracted by various reports to try it?

On January 6, Lu Zhenyu uploaded the business environment plug-in that was removed from the beta version.

On January 9th, the Beijing movie plug-in, which was slightly modified based on the original voice pack, was uploaded.

On January 12, the newly developed Shanghai dialect plugin was uploaded.

On January 15th, the first patch was made to the voice platform. The voice platform will support a small number of English words in Chinese input, which is a great benefit for foreign employees who are used to mixing Chinese and English, and a business environment plug-in. Combined, it can even play the role of instant shorthand for meetings.

On January 18th, the plug-in development platform was updated, and the interface of the whole plug-in was more complete and intuitive, and the English command line was changed to support Chinese/English command lines, and the syntax was simplified, and the function of fool-like development of the graphical interface was strengthened. And updated the help file of the plug-in development platform, and released a plug-in development tutorial at the same time.

As a result, on the second night, a fan of the voice platform uploaded a very interesting Taiwanese voice plug-in.

In response to this friend, on January 20, Lu Zhenyu launched a multilingual version of the voice platform, which began to support traditional Chinese, and also brought an interface that can use English, French, Russian, German, and Japanese… After a series of plug-ins were announced, people who are interested can already watch them. It’s time to gradually improve the voice platform. Now there are these plug-ins, except for the Taiwanese voice plug-in made by the netizen, others follow the instructions of firefur. When the official version is released, they are all standard configuration rather than plug-ins. .

This series of releases and updates are all done on the platform of Shared Sky.

The traffic and downloads of the shared space have soared for a while, and the connection with some dinosaur-level portal websites has also increased, and even the advertising revenue of the website has also increased a lot.

On January 25, Shared Sky released a message that firefur has formed a company and will hold an online press conference in the shared sky chat room at 2 pm on the 26th, and will sign contracts with the company’s first employees .

At that time, China’s first batch of electronically signed labor contracts will be born.

There’s a lot of hype about this news.

Few people in the whole world know who firefur is, and now even the company has opened and still does not show up, which is quite special.

It seems that there are not many press conferences on the Internet, and it seems that it is not to save money. It is not too expensive to rent a place that looks like it. Of course, if you include the travel expenses for inviting reporters, it is difficult to say. .

Both employers and employees use electronic signatures to sign labor contracts, which is even more newsworthy.

Sure enough, the shared sky on the afternoon of the 26th was lively again.

The meeting was hosted by the moderator of the shared sky, Wuzi. When he sent the firefur implementation document to him by ctrl-v into the chat room, more and more people were shocked.

People who love technology are surprised that Han Liping, the laboratory director of Fengchao Group, will also serve as a consultant for the laboratory of Digital Totem, and in addition, there are two experts who can be called experts. The three-year-old Lu Dekun, one is Zeng Gao, the most famous “Wild Fox Zen” in the programming world, and the other, although not famous, has a lot of background, because he is reluctantly parted by the order of the superior from the 7791 Research Institute. Liu Yuanxia, who works with Lu Zhenyu, has nothing on his resume after university except “Assistant Researcher of the 7791 Research Institute directly under the Central Military Commission”, because all the projects he participated in before were classified projects.

And the purpose of his joining the digital totem cannot be explained to Su Yunhai and the others.

Naturally, these names could not arouse the interest of the mass media. What really aroused the ordinary journalists without technical skills in Beijing were several masters hired by Digital Totem in terms of business operations, such as Peng Hannian, Lei Tao, a well-known manager, and Hang Ying, Lou Jiaming has an excellent resume, and none of these people have a monthly contract salary of more than 3,000.

Firefur and those who signed the contract did not say anything. How to comment on this matter is left to the media.

Anyway, this totally cost-free press conference did not send a penny of public relations fees, but it caused quite a stir, which is enough.

For the majority of users who have become accustomed to voice input, Firefur announced that the testing time of the beta version will be extended by 15 days until February 15th, when Digital Totem releases the commercial version of the voice platform.

Now that even the official release plan is in place, what are those reporters missing?

Most people don’t know that Lu Zhenyu decided this time through gritted teeth under the pressure of his colleagues in the company.

It seems that the voice platform is quite complete, but in fact, the later development is really not difficult, but its trivial level is beyond anyone’s imagination, especially these trivial tasks have to be in the hands of a group of programmers who have not been run-in. Completion also involves a large number of other aspects of data collection and collation.

The interface designer that Su Yunhai hired for Digital Totem was even a little idealistic. He was a person who had just completed his advanced studies at the New York School of Media. He was also a programmer before. He gave a pretty good plan right away. However, the subsequent production, the completion of the draft and the coordination with the program are somewhat troublesome.

Because things are so dense and dense, even Peng Hannian, who knows a little about the technology, participated in part of the development work. He was responsible for finding a series of voice actors and recording voice materials in the recording studio.

Hang Ying has just returned from Beijing, throwing her luggage into the apartment she just rented, she will be busy at both ends. All kinds of coordination between employees who can temporarily soho and are still very busy with digital totems, and even before her own office is implemented, she has to spend a lot of time in Su Yunhai’s office to help filter the piles of resumes, from which Pick out the types of talent your company needs.

There are already several top technical talents, but the digital and electronic research labs that constitute a company, as well as all kinds of basic-level technicians and so-called software blue-collar workers that are needed in the daily operations of the company are still essential.

In the daily sales, marketing, finance and administrative fields, a large number of employees also need to be implemented urgently. Although she is too lazy to interfere in other departments, she has to do a preliminary screening for several colleagues.

In the end, the busiest person should be Hang Ying.

Fortunately, she has always been accustomed to being busy and dealing with complicated things, but she handles them in an orderly manner.

Some time after the press conference, the new veterans of these digital totems were also harassed by reporters and former colleagues who found them through various channels.

A lot of high-sounding words kept throwing out, making them annoyed themselves.

As a newly established company, the honor and attention that should be enjoyed, the digital totem is almost all to the extreme.

The mysterious behind-the-scenes boss, the products with great appeal, and many masters joining in, can be regarded as infinite scenery.

However, where they didn’t notice, the industry threshold, as well as the unspoken rules of the world, still began to operate quietly.

On February 2, the night when Lu Zhenyu finished his final exam, the official version of the voice platform was completed.

In the official version, the voice pack recorded by Lu Zhenyu himself has been removed, and replaced by 2 male voices, 2 female voices, 2 children’s voices and a machine simulation voice in a total of 7 languages, with 4 words of business, fashion, sports and technology. Library plug-in, with regular Mandarin, Beijing dialect correction package, Shanghai dialect, Cantonese and Taiwan phonetic correction package 5 phonetic and semantic combination plug-ins, with the latest correction plug-in development tools and relatively complete help files and user manuals, tutorials and the like ‘s documentation, and even comes with a preview version of a translation software that uses semantics to pragmatic judgment, a core feature of the speech platform.

This set of things can basically be called complete.

Naturally, the whole software comes with an anti-cracking mechanism and a rather weird registration and activation mechanism.

Although it seems that it can be used by entering the sn code, this registration activation mechanism is quite interesting in judging the validity of the sn and whether it is repeated.

The user must connect to the Internet after installing the software. Then, the program will automatically log in to the company’s registration server to activate the user registration mechanism. Then, the user can enter the user name and password. A user information file.

This user information file can be copied and moved. Users can throw this file into something like a USB flash drive and run around. They can also use their own user files on other machines where the voice platform is legally installed. If it is installed illegally, it will destroy the program and user files at the same time… Although there are always some people who will install software everywhere with a sn, but they can only be installed on some machines that are not connected to the Internet at all, and they cannot activate all functions. Do self-learning and create users.

The problem lies in the next few links.

When Peng Hannian ran to government agencies to obtain software publishing licenses, he was made difficult.

Beginning in the second half of 2005, the publishing license of the software has been obtained very easily, basically, it can be obtained by filing with the Press and Publication Administration.

But for some unknown reason, this ordinary voice platform was identified as cultural and entertainment software and had to be reviewed by the Ministry of Culture.

Peng Hannian felt a chill in his heart.

What kind of institution is the Ministry of Culture?

Those people inside don’t know the others, and the level of eating and taking cards is first-class.

A voice platform, with several sets of thesaurus, can be picked on too many places, obviously to find reasons for accepting bribes, sending money and gifts in, the Ministry of Culture will turn around and give you approval, or simply send money to the news. According to the Publishing Administration, the software is classified as ordinary software, and the matter is over. The only difference is which agency gets the money.

Due to the urging of users, Digital Totem has set the release date of the official version on February 15. If the software cannot be approved and cannot be released in the factory, the problem of delayed tickets will be serious.

Digital Totem is not the kind of organization that Blizzard takes a bounce ticket after it is famous, it can’t stand this kind of thing.

It’s not that Peng Hannian didn’t intend to send money to settle the matter, but that the other party’s back was too big.

A section chief in charge of this matter, probably aware of the prospect of this software, opened his mouth to several hundred thousand.

At present, the Kylin Fund has only paid more than 2 million yuan to the company’s account to meet the basic expenses during the preparation period. At this time, there are places where money is spent, and there is no such money in the account.

Peng Hannian hated these bureaucrats even more.

Lei Tao, who went to contact the CD-ROM printing business, also encountered something that made him uncomfortable. There is not any large-scale CD-ROM printing factory in Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas. It was a former colleague of Lei Tao who revealed some news. A well-known software group teamed up to suppress the digital totem, just waiting for the digital totem to take over.

With news from both sides, everyone could only gather for a meeting.

Lu Zhenyu didn’t think it was complicated, and the people who were programmed into the laboratory even sneered. Those groups in the software industry have never been so harmonious, so why are they so consistent this time?

Haven’t seen the significance and business opportunities of the voice platform?

And those bureaucrats, those faces have long been used to seeing.

“Tomorrow, Lao Peng, go to the Press and Publication Office again, and find that person. After you arrive at his office, someone will call and tell him what to do. He won’t issue a permit within 5 minutes, hehe, I guess he will see It won’t be until the sun the day after tomorrow….I want to pay bribes for my Chen family’s affairs?” Chen Ning frowned and said displeasedly.

This time, people other than Lu Zhenyu really can’t understand how deep the water is for this little girl, and the sentence that she can’t see the sun the day after tomorrow, and I don’t know if it’s true or just a joke.

“Lao Lei, don’t print CDs. This time, we will all publish online sales, not physical things.” Lu Zhenyu thought about it and said, “The downloader is bound to the activation system. I will change the program tomorrow. One download can only perform one installation operation, and then the installation package will be automatically deleted. Those groups need to suppress, let them suppress it. We don’t distribute goods or print CDs, what else can they do? Attack our servers? Then Great, I want to try our intelligent defense mechanism, anyway, all the countermeasures in our hands act on both software and hardware at the same time, let them repair the server and see who suffers the most.”

“Then What are you asking me to do? Sitting in the office and watching the stars?” Lei Tao was depressed, all sales were online, his pricing strategy, negotiation and channel sales experts were completely useless.

“It’s useful, Lao Lei, I have a daunting task for you.” Lu Zhenyu glanced at Chen Ning, who was sitting on the side with a smile, and said, “When Chen Ning was chatting with me just now, you haven’t come yet, so we have reached a resolution. , decided to acquire a football club. Originally, this should belong to the scope of Lao Peng, after all, it is part of the overall marketing strategy, but Lao Peng is estimated to be busy recently, so I can only favor you?”

Chen Ning reiterated: “Acquisition Which one is up to you. In the past few days, the news that the Kylin Fund will invest in the digital totem will be announced. At that time, there will be enough money in the account, and the price will not be a big problem. , you have to report it to me, especially civil servants, government officials, state-owned enterprises and CEOs with a state-owned shareholding structure, and I will clear these obstacles for you through my channels. I don’t recognize this unspoken rule, and no one will Want to play this unspoken rule with me.”

Everyone can understand now, it seems that Chen Ning should have a deep government background, that’s fine.

Lei Tao quickly nodded and said, “I see. I will start collecting data tomorrow.”

On February 10, Lei Tao held a press conference on behalf of Digital Totem.

At the meeting, Lei Tao announced that the official version of the voice platform of Digital Totem has been developed and the software distribution license has been obtained. Due to some obstruction, the printing of the CD has encountered some problems. This time, the voice platform will be released entirely through the network. , software download, verification, registration, activation and payment are all carried out online.

Although Lei Tao didn’t say anything at the official press conference, when he was interviewed by a few journalist friends he had known for a long time, Lei Tao pretended to be very aggrieved and angry, and revealed a little bit about himself. The poor and small companies were made difficult, and they quietly added a small amount of “finishing pen” to the accounts of those few friends, hoping that they could “pull the brothers” at the critical moment.

Lei Tao’s performance is really realistic, and Lei Tao is a straightforward person. No matter which company he works in, he takes good care of reporter friends. These reporter friends pat their chests and promise to help.

After that, Lei Tao really threw himself into the work of collecting information to prepare for the acquisition of the club.

On February 15, the voice platform was announced on the newly established official homepage of Digital Totem, UU Reading www.sonicmtl.com In order to thank the shared sky for its continuous support, it also provides downloads on the shared sky.

The price of using the voice platform is 69 yuan per year, which is not a high cost.

However, due to all online sales, there is no channel to share any profits, and the money can be completely deposited into the account of the digital totem, which is quite impressive.

On that day, the total number of downloads of the software has reached hundreds of thousands, and the number of paying users has reached 27,000, and the rate of continuous growth is quite fast.

Nearly 2 million arrived overnight, and the speed of making money is a bit scary.

On February 17, Kirin Fund held a press conference in the conference hall of Jincang Wenhua Hotel, announcing that it would invest in Digital Totem and hold a 45% stake.

Chen Ning did not show up at the press conference, but made a director of Kirin Fund North America as the spokesperson of Kirin Fund.

At the press conference, the amount of capital injection was hidden, but it only emphasized the origin of the Kirin Fund.

Since the scale of the capital injection is not specified, it is up to others to guess, and the origin of this overseas Chinese investing in domestic mutual funds is quite eye-catching.

The most interesting thing is that in this way, those companies and groups that want to put pressure on the digital totem are a bit passive. A few days ago, the digital totem was forced to have no place to press the plate. investment climate,” some leaders began to greet those companies.

The name of overseas Chinese can make some people nervous.

The digital totem has completed a dramatic transformation in a very short period of time.

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