Top of the Great Era

Chapter 1353 Linkage
I went to Tokyo once, went there on the same day, and returned on the same day.

Meet Chen Dong.

In the matter of developing the Korean market, the previous goal fell on Kim Bum-soo, one of the founders of the NHN Group, who later left.

In order to show his sincerity, Chen Dong made a special trip to South Korea.

Previously, Chen Dong's younger Korean brother named Kim Jong Hyuk had already started an e-commerce business in South Korea, and Kim Jong Hyuk's father was the director and vice president of Hyundai Group, with a high position.

With this relationship, many things will be easier to handle.

Seeing Chen Dong, Zhou Buqi cut straight to the point, "Jin Fanxiu agreed?"

Chen Dong said with a smile: "He is a househusband now, and he is almost dead. He dreams of starting a business again, but he lacks a suitable direction. After leaving NHN, he made a few small web games, which were unsuccessful in the local market. It was not very successful in the United States.”

"What did you say?"

"I told him that traffic is king. According to our country's Internet experience, as long as there is traffic, the success rate of new games will be greatly improved. Whether it is QQ or Helo, this is the way to go."

"He accepted?"

"I'm still understanding, but the intention of cooperation is very clear." Chen Dong smiled, "There is no basis for words. After the iPhone version of Helo is launched, we can probably make up our minds."

Zhou Buqi said: "I heard from Zhou Shaoning that the Korean market has been opened, and this year's iPhone, including Aster2, can enter the Korean market. The opportunity has come."

Samsung has officially announced that their Android phones will be on sale in June this year. LG's Android phone will also be available in July.

South Korea will officially enter the era of smartphones.

South Korea's Internet infrastructure has always been among the best in the world. As long as the terminal products keep up, it can enter the era of mobile Internet one step ahead of Japan.

Firstly, South Korea is small in size and population, and it is easy to transform; secondly, Japanese users are too habitual, and young people in South Korea prefer to pursue new gadgets, which is related to the national character.

Chen Dong was full of confidence in Boss Zhou's judgment, and said with a smile: "Yes, I have talked with Jin Fanxiu, and I have a lot of ideas, and...he has the charm of a successful person. I think he can do it. Simply choose I have decided on him, and cooperate with him to deploy the mobile Internet market in South Korea. When are you free, talk to him? Or should I take him to see you?"

"Let me go, and check the market in South Korea by the way. After the Spring Festival, let's go there together."

"Row."

"However, it's still a little early. When Samsung, LG, Apple, Blackberry, and Asda's smartphones start selling in South Korea, it may be September, and there is still half a year to go."

Chen Dong heard something in his words, "Boss Zhou, do you have a new idea?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Mobile Internet is the general trend, but within two or three years, PC Internet will still be the key development direction. If South Korea's business only focuses on mobile phones and ignores computers, it will be difficult to form a linkage effect. Or It has to be the same as the Japanese business, and the computer and mobile phone must be synchronized."

"Well, we can do YikYak first."

"Actually, I recently made a new discovery, a new technology."

"What technology?"

"Image processing, resolution conversion."

"Ok?"

Chen Dong didn't understand what he meant.

Zhou Buqi said: "If there is a good technology, it must be applied. If it cannot be transformed into the market, it will not produce value. I am talking about a technology developed by the Multimedia Laboratory of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Improve. Pictures are fine, and of course video is also fine.”

"Video?" Chen Dong smiled, "Do you want to start in this direction?"

Zhou Buqi said: "To be precise, it's a live video broadcast."

"Is it not possible in China?"

Chen Dong's wife and children are all in China, and they often video chat with China, and the experience is very bad.He is in Tokyo, so there is no big problem here, the problem is in China, where the internet speed is too slow.So much so that the picture over there is blurry, and often freezes.

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "China is still immature, but South Korea and Japan can do it. I read a report that the current Internet speed in South Korea is as high as 10M/s download speed."

Chen Dongdao: "Well, the live broadcast industry has been in Korea for six or seven years, but... ahem, their live broadcasts are more about the content of the eighteen bans."

"No, I've checked. Now regular live broadcast platforms have appeared, and they're doing pretty well. For example, on afreecaTV, the female anchor is at most squeezed out, showing her belly button, wearing a short skirt, and showing her underwear. It’s quite formal. There are also live games and even food broadcasts on it, which is very interesting.”

Zhou Buqi has a fairly good understanding of this business.

The live broadcast industry will be an important outlet in the future, and the live video broadcast in China ranks first in the world.However, 99% of the gameplay and ideas of domestic video sites come from South Korea, and some live broadcast platforms even pack and poach Korean female anchors to China.

South Korea's population base is too small, and live video services are free, mainly relying on traffic to make money.The large population in the country has natural advantages.

Chen Dong sighed, "Actually, Japan's live broadcasting industry is quite good. The infrastructure is very good, and the number of netizens far exceeds that of South Korea. But the Japanese are too stingy, and they don't like to show their faces or expose themselves during live broadcasts." .”

Zhou Buqi laughed and said, "This is the computer vision processing technology I'm talking about."

"Ha ha."

Chen Dong was embarrassed to ridicule him, and said to Boss Zhou, you should stop pretending, you know shit about computer vision.

Zhou Buqi said solemnly: "Japanese people don't like to show their faces, and it's simple. You can use face-changing techniques to change your face into watermelons, cartoon characters, etc. It shouldn't be difficult to realize. I'm talking about more difficult ones. It is the optimization of resolution. South Korea’s network speed can accept higher resolution, but the host’s camera may not be able to capture such a high-resolution picture. This can use the fixed-point zoom technology of the image. Well, it is real-time and accurate The points on the human face are accurately positioned, and then zoomed in for multiple episodes, and each episode is zoomed in a little bit before positioning, and then zoomed in a little bit, and then positioned again, and finally the effect of resolution enhancement is completed."

Chen Dong was slightly taken aback, "It's hard to achieve, isn't it?"

"Technology is not changing fast, this must be a general direction." Zhou Buqi waved his hand, "Video live streaming is an emerging industry with great development prospects in the future, especially attractive to young people. PCs in the Korean market The Internet is almost monopolized by NHN, and it may be difficult for several major traditional industries to enter. It is better to use live video as a breakthrough.”

Chen Dong said with a smile: "Let the anchors recommend new apps for smartphones?"

"This idea can be there. The linkage effect of traffic must be that the PC end leads to the mobile end in the early stage, and the mobile end leads to the PC end in the later stage."

"Well, then... Then build a live video website in Korea first?"

"Do it." Zhou Buqi nodded, "It's only January, and smartphones won't be widely available until at least September. Let's build a live streaming website first. And there's no need to start from scratch. The afreecaTV I just mentioned , it seems to be the most popular now, and the model mainly relies on selling advertisements, brand promotion and gifting, which is not worth a lot of money. Discuss with Jin Fanxiu, why not buy this website directly. "

Live video broadcasting is an emerging industry, and big companies have not paid attention to it.

In South Korea, due to the emergence of a large number of [-]-ban live video websites in the past, the industry generally gave everyone the impression of unhealthy and indecent content.

This is an opportunity.

Only when others look down on it, Ziweixing has a chance to seize the market.

afreecaTV is quite popular among young people, but the company is too small and has no backing.It's better to buy it directly, and then carry out ecological linkage, first combine with YikYak to do PC Internet business.In the second half of the year, we will work together to enter the mobile Internet.

For Ziweixing, live video broadcasting is a brand new industry, and it is a bit risky to start a new industry in an emerging market.

But there is no way, Japan's cultural background is not good, and domestic infrastructure is not good.

Either wait a few more years, and wait for the domestic Internet infrastructure to be further upgraded before developing the live broadcast business.Either enter Korea first and use the Korean market as a test field.

In China...we still have to adapt to the general situation, let's start with the voice first!

For example, the YY version of Helo.

The name of the software is "YY Edition Helo".

Duowan has already confirmed that the software has launched a beta version on the 1st of this month, and has sent out trial invitations to advertising YY users.

After the user logs in to "YY Edition Helo", he can bind the Helo account with the YY account, and then two friend lists will appear, one is Helo's friends and the other is YY's friends.

It is equivalent to having the functions of Helo and YY at the same time through this software.

For experienced users of YY, the biggest attribute of YY is voice, not only the voice communication with the team when playing games, but also the voice show in YY entertainment show.

Some anchors are telling ghost stories, some are telling pornographic jokes, and some are shouting, singing, and cross-chatting, which has formed an entertainment space in the form of voice.

The only downside is that there are too few people.

YY is just a niche software, and it was made by players of "World of Warcraft" to form a team and download a dungeon together.But after linking with Helo, it will be different. YY anchors can invite all Helo friends to join their show, which opens up the market at once.

Moreover, if the user is listening to the voice program of the YY show, the account status will be displayed, and he will tell all Helo friends about his status, which can generate a viral effect. people join.

Duowan attaches great importance to this product. Combining with Helo, it has the opportunity to push YY to a new height.Taking advantage of the Spring Festival period, people all over the country are resting at home, which is a good opportunity for YY voice show to attack the city and seize the territory.

On January 1, the official version of "YY Helo" will be launched.

Ziweixing has also been paying attention to this matter, which is related to the next development plan of the "Magic Reform Helo Project".Prior to this, Ziwei Star had already completed the financing of Duowan, spending 5900 million US dollars, and won 40% of the shares. Even if there are some mistakes and detours, there is still a lot of room for adjustment and correction.

(End of this chapter)