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The Clintons have been able to dominate the American political arena for decades, to a large extent, because they are really trustworthy, and they will fulfill their promises as much as possible. Therefore, compared with the political giants such as the Kennedy family and the Bush family, which have experienced several generations Only when they finally reached the top, the couple almost 'started from nothing' became a powerful force affecting the political landscape of the United States in just 20 years. Later, they almost became the first husband and wife presidents in American politics.

In the final stage of the general election, the White House also acted aggressively in the face of the Igret Portal’s team, and also claimed through the Department of Justice that it would launch an antitrust investigation into the IE browser software.

However, as Bush Sr.'s defeat was decided, things also changed very subtly.

The Bush family has a very mature political literacy, and the defeat of the elder Bush is far from the end of the political life of the Bush family. Therefore, the other party clearly knows that offending Simon Westero to death is not good for him .

Of course, the statement about investigating the IE browser software that was just thrown out last month cannot be swallowed up directly. However, the day after the general election ended, news came from the White House that the White House press conference that Igret Portal has been trying to obtain The interview qualifications were suddenly approved.

Prior to this, as a newly emerging new media platform, the White House had been refusing to issue White House press credentials for Igret Portal for various reasons.

Whether or not one can obtain the interview qualification for the White House press conference largely represents a media's strength in the American media industry.

Although he also had a premonition that the White House's sudden move might have the intention of provoking the traditional media and Ygrit's portal to target each other, but Simon still admired Bush's straightforwardness.

The results of the general election have already been released. If Bush Sr. still clings to the small White House press card, it can only be delayed for another three months at most.

Passing at this time, there are both provocations and temptations.

It is also a gain to test whether there is a possibility of wooing the Ygret faction, even if it does not ask the Ygret faction to fall directly to the Republican Party, as long as it maintains a proper neutrality when needed in the future.

True and false.

Facing the temptation from the White House, Igret Portal also released a positive news about the current president on an important section of the website as a response.

With the end of this general election, Simon also predicted that next year will be a year of greater explosion in the Internet industry.

Influenced by Simon, the big butterfly, the graphical interface browser software was launched three years ahead of schedule. The Igret portal has just been launched, and the business model is close to the level around the new century. Whether it is Internet products such as e-mail or network Information and other content businesses have quickly reached a level sufficient to attract ordinary public users under the generous investment of the Westeros system to spare no effort to burn money.

For Americans nowadays, it costs about $30 per month, which is roughly equivalent to the price of subscribing to one or two newspapers daily, but the services they get far exceed the content and information that print media can provide. This is undoubtedly very cost-effective of.

And, most importantly, as one of the most developed countries in the world, Americans have strong spending power.

This is the most fundamental reason for the outbreak of the US Internet industry.

In the country where Simon once lived, the penetration rate of VCRs and DVD players has not been too high throughout the life cycle from birth to decline.But in the United States, whether it is a video recorder or a DVD player, the household penetration rate once reached more than 80%.

The same is true for the development of personal computers and the Internet in the United States.

On the original timeline, the graphical interface browser was born in 1993, Yahoo was established in 1995, and then the era of Internet explosion began.

From 1995 to 2000, in just five years, the number of Internet users in the United States has reached 1.1 million, far exceeding the Internet penetration rate of other countries at the same time.Simon clearly remembered that in the same year, the population of China was several times that of the United States, but the number of Internet users was only 650 million, which was less than a fraction of the number of Internet users in the United States.

Now that the software and hardware foundations are quite complete, Simon has advanced the development process of the Internet industry by three to five years through the spare no effort of the Westeros system.

It is estimated that by the end of 1992, the number of users accessing the World Wide Web in the United States will reach about 2800 million, and the number of Internet users covered will exceed 4000 million.

From the beginning of efforts in 1990 to the end of 1992, it also only took three years.

Supported by strong consumption power, by 1995, the number of Internet users in the United States is likely to be close to the level of 2000 in the original time and space.

Of course, because of Simon's 'indulging seedlings', the capital market's response to the Internet industry is still somewhat slow.

During the craziest period of the Internet bubble from 1998 to 2000 on the original timeline, technology stocks experienced irrational super-explosions.This time, capital has not yet followed the pace of the industrial explosion. Although technology stocks have begun to be sought after, they have not yet reached the stage of take-off.

However, in Simon's view, this time point should still be next year.

The main reason is the recent European currency crisis.

It’s just that the British government invested more than 200 billion pounds in order to maintain the exchange rate of the pound. This money will not disappear out of thin air.Countries such as Italy, France, and Spain have suffered heavy losses in this crisis, and the money has been obtained by international hot money mainly from the United States.

Just like the Asian financial turmoil in 1997 brought large sums of money to push up North American Internet technology stocks, this time, the large amount of funds gained by international hot money will naturally instinctively look for investment channels with greater appreciation potential.

Europe has started a new round of economic recession, and Asia is already Japan's back garden.

In contrast, with Bill Clinton's coming to power, the United States is about to get out of the recession triggered by the collapse of the bond market a few years ago and start a new round of economic upturn cycle.

The rapidly emerging new technology industry in North America is perfect for international hot money looking for investment opportunities.

It was already the end of the year, and after the presidential election, Simon still stayed in San Francisco to discuss the company's development plan for next year with a group of senior executives from Eaglet.

First of all, it is necessary to further open up the World Wide Web technology.

The licensing of e-mail technology with Microsoft and America Online has been negotiated, but a third party that has nothing to do with the Westeros system has not yet been found.

At this stage, almost all important new technology companies related to the Internet are related to the Westeros system.

If it is simply authorized to a weak third-party company, the other party is likely to be acquired by an established giant such as IBM in a blink of an eye.Even if this can be locked in the technology licensing agreement, it is actually better not to license the technology to a company that is too weak.

Therefore, for the time being, there are only two companies, Microsoft and AOL.

As for what the outside world thinks, that can only be left to the other party.

At the same time, after several recent high-level discussions, Eaglet decided to put some relatively basic World Wide Web patents into the World Wide Web Consortium Foundation and open them to the industry completely free of charge.

In fact, Simon is also considering Eaglet to give up some non-core businesses in order to give other Internet companies enough room for development.

However, at this stage, Eaglet still supports most of the services of the entire Internet platform, whether it is e-mail, online forums, software stores or personal blogs, etc., it is not suitable to give up.

Even if you want to give up, it will be a matter after listing.

To be more precise, it would be better to wait until after the dot-com bubble burst.At that time, the Eaglet Portal can logically get rid of many non-core businesses on the grounds of streamlining the business.

At this stage, if there is one more business, the stock price will increase by one point in the future.

There is also the issue of splitting, which also involves future listing issues.

Although Jeff Bezos and Carol Bartz, two powerful executives, often have conflicts between them, they both expressed opposition to Simon's proposal to split.

Eaglet's basic services and network services are generally complementary.

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Simon returned to Los Angeles on November 11, which was Friday.

Tomorrow is the official day of the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.

In the past few days, Eaglet's main development plan for next year has been finalized. In addition to the further opening of World Wide Web technology, there is mainly the further deepening of core products.

In order to increase product recognition, Eaglet will officially launch two sub-brands of 'Google' (Google) and 'Facebook' (Facebook) after Amazon.

Google is naturally involved in the search engine business.

As Internet sites began to grow exponentially, the content of cyberspace increased significantly, and the role of search engines became more and more obvious. Coupled with Simon's own attention, this network tool has always been the object of special attention of Eaglet's team.

The latest IE browser that will be launched soon will also add a Google-specific search box next to the address bar.

The seemingly inconspicuous modification of software functions will play a vital role in the promotion of Google's search engine.

Another Facebook, obviously a social networking business.

Of course, the new version of Facebook is definitely different from the one in Simon’s memory. Considering the current network environment, the Facebook business that will be developed separately is more inclined to the Weibo in Simon’s memory, with celebrities and superstars as traffic guides.At the same time, Facebook will not pursue the real name system of users too much.

Simon also proposed an auxiliary plan for Ygrit Portal to personally create a group of "Internet celebrities".

In the original timeline, Internet celebrities emerging from generation to generation have effectively stimulated the continuous growth of Internet users.

Relying on the resources of the Westeros system in various aspects at this time, it seems easy to create and promote a group of Internet celebrities.

In addition, the personal homepage and microblog, which have already been split, will be further differentiated into two products with the establishment of the Facebook sub-brand.

The personal homepage will gradually develop into a personal column, which mainly provides information content for the Eaglet portal.

As for Facebook, the core must still be social.

In addition to Google and Facebook, Amazon's e-commerce business will also start the next step of expansion. It is expected to add online sales of two new products, video tapes and movie peripherals, early next year.

Videotapes and film peripherals, the tendency to compete with Blockbuster is very obvious, but Simon has not prevented this kind of competition from happening.

Amazon's business expansion is a necessity.

At this stage, in addition to books, video tapes with relatively fixed types and formats are also a product that is very suitable for sales through online platforms.

Movie peripherals rely on the resource support of the Westeros system in Hollywood.

Moreover, the profit margins of movie peripheral products are very high, which can also largely offset the disadvantages of relatively expensive e-commerce warehousing and logistics costs at this stage.

If Amazon abandons these two businesses for fear of competing with Blockbuster, there will inevitably be no other competitors in the future.

Simon very much agrees with one of Jobs' business ideas in his memory: Rather than being eliminated by others, it is better to eliminate yourself.

Many established corporate giants just can't make it out by themselves, so they disappear.

The most typical example is Blockbuster on the original timeline. In order to avoid erosion of its offline leasing business, Blockbuster even voluntarily gave up the opportunity to develop its online business and eventually went bankrupt.

Netflix is ​​the exact opposite of Blockbuster.

After securing the top spot in online rental, Netflix is ​​not as complacent as Blockbuster.Aware of the industry trend of streaming media, the executives of Netflix disregarded that the streaming media business might seriously impact physical online leasing, and made a decisive transformation, eventually becoming a giant of streaming media alongside Disney.

Therefore, Simon does not intend to interfere with the competition between Amazon and Blockbuster as long as the two sides do not engage in a mutually damaging price war or adopt other unscrupulous means. In fact, they still hold an encouraging attitude.

The Internet industry is exploding rapidly, because it slows down when it leads for a while, and the result will only be surpassed.

The competitive landscape between Amazon and Blockbuster can also urge both parties to develop rapidly in various aspects such as operations and technology, so as to avoid slack.

Carol Bartz is in charge of Internet basic service-related businesses, and the focus of next year's development will still be cloud computing.

Although it has been successfully applied to support various products of Eaglet Portal, there is still a lot of room for improvement in cloud computing technology.

Eaglet cloud computing technology team, the next goal is to further get rid of IBM and other server equipment suppliers in terms of hardware, directly purchase chips, hard drives and other equipment from the lowest-level hardware manufacturers such as Intel and Seagate, and design and build proprietary data center.By skipping middlemen like IBM, Eagletec can greatly reduce the construction cost of the data center. At the same time, the self-designed data center can also obtain more authority at the server level, so that it is convenient to design a software system that best meets its own needs.

The U.S. presidential election still had an impact on the North American box office for the week from October 10 to November 30.

However, in the first week of painting, Daenerys Entertainment's "Midnight Ring" released during the Halloween schedule still achieved very impressive box office results, earning 2879 million US dollars in seven days, with an average of more than 1.2 US dollars per museum, reaching the top-selling level .

In comparison, the horror film "Legend of Death" released by Samsung under Columbia Pictures, which opened in the same period, only had a box office of 519 million US dollars in the first week. Even though it was a disastrous failure at the box office, the box office data is far from meeting the studio's expectations. It is estimated that the total box office in North America is only about 1000 million US dollars.

On November 11, there was only one new film to start production in North American theaters, the hijacking criminal action film "Passengers 6" produced by Warner Bros.

"Passengers 57" is starring Wesley Snipes, the black movie star who starred in the "Blade Warrior" series on the original timeline.Basically, although the scene is put on the plane, the film obviously still refers to the story structure of Bruce Willis' "Die Hard" series.

Simon doesn't have much information about "Passenger 57" in his memory. Obviously, the box office of this movie will not be too high. He still pays attention to "Midnight Ring".

The Japanese version of "Midnight Ring" on the original timeline was a phenomenon-level movie in Japan, and then Hollywood bought the copyright to make changes, largely because of the influence of "Midnight Ring" in Asia.

This time, the Japanese version was skipped and the American version was directly developed. Although Simon adopted the plot structure of the American version in memory, he still prefers to refer to the Japanese version in terms of camera lens and soundtrack. The footage drilled out of the TV quickly became a classic horror scene in the minds of many viewers.

Its first week was 2879 million US dollars. With the word-of-mouth of the film, it is easy for the new version of "Midnight Ring" to break through [-] million. As for how high it can go, it still depends on the follow-up box office curve.

The Japanese have never lacked the dream of entering North America in all aspects.

"The Ring at Midnight", which was adapted from a Japanese horror novel, was a huge hit at the box office, and it also caused a wave of public opinion in this country for a while.Daenerys Entertainment originally had the opportunity to release "Midnight Ring" in Japan at the same time, after all, it is a film adapted from a Japanese horror novel.

However, what is needed is the Japanese 'sense of pride' after the success of the film, so the distribution team decided to wait until the release of "Midnight Ring" before releasing it in Japan.

The North American market has always been closed, and there are only a handful of Japanese movies that can be sold in North America.

In the original plan, as long as the North American box office of "Midnight Ring" can exceed 5000 million US dollars, it will be enough to attract strong attention from the Japanese market.Now, the North American box office of the film is expected to exceed [-] million, and even squeezed into the top ten of the North American annual box office rankings. Then, the next daily big sales in Japan can be even more expected.

The theme park team that is designing Universal Studios Osaka decided to add 'Sadako' to the haunted house attractions in Universal Studios Osaka after the box office of "Midnight Ring" was released in the first weekend.

Simon had already learned about the box office information of "Midnight Ring" in advance, and when he returned to Los Angeles, he rushed directly to the Dorothy Chandler Theater in the city center.

The Victoria's Secret show will be held tomorrow night, and today is the last rehearsal.

Not only Simon, but also the chairman of LTD Leslie Wexner, Victoria's Secret CEO Grace Nichols and other high-level executives also came to watch the rehearsal.

The interior of the Chandler Theater has already been transformed into a fashion show with a 20-meter-long T-stage. The audience is mainly distributed on both sides of the T-stage. The lighting, seats and even some sets in line with various themes in the theater hall have been set up. .

Of course, what attracted everyone's attention the most was a group of 'big fairies' who were ready to go.

Most people who have seen the finalized Victoria's Secret angel shape under Simon's personal decision will almost have one thought in their minds: stunning.

In the original time and space, the first few catwalks of Victoria's Secret in the 90s can only be described as scumbags. The models wore very conservative underwear, painted with substandard lipsticks and blush, and each of them seemed to have just escaped from a ravine. come out.

This time, Simon directly raised the Victoria's Secret Show to the level of maturity after 2000.

Gorgeous lingerie, stunning shapes, colorful wings, and a group of top models in the fashion circle.

In the final analysis, this is the effect of 1000 million US dollars thrown out.

Backstage at the theater, because this big show is related to his future in Hollywood, and a large group of goblins can only watch but not eat. Michael Bay, who has worked hard for this big show for several months, has already shown a bit of "later" With a tyrant' breath, he loudly commanded the various units into the headset to start waiting. When the assistant director indicated that it was time to start, Michael Bay, standing behind a row of real-time monitors in the background, issued a loud command.

The music is ringing.

Until the last moment, for the sake of confidentiality, the music is still only in the form of soundtrack.

However, everyone also knows that the first-hand very explosive song is called "Angels", and the theme name is: Psychedelic Angels.

Simon put Vicetone's "Angels" in the opening scene instead of "Paradise", mainly to ignite the atmosphere of the scene at the first time by relying on this very fast-paced dance song.

For this big show, the expectations of the outside world have reached the highest.

If the opening does not mobilize the audience's long-awaited emotions, the final effect of the big show will be difficult to achieve perfection.