Chapter 72 Crisis? (Two in One)

As a competitor of online disk, Cao Shen forced me into a desperate situation this time.

When you are in a desperate situation, you can naturally go crazy.

So, after the group attack, Cao Shen was investigated.

Cao Shen had considered this point, but he didn't expect that these people would be so desperate. It's just a online disk application, and it doesn't make much money, so why bother.

So Mr. Cao wrote an article himself:

"The future of cloud computing lies in software definition"

In general, it is a large-scale ridicule in the name of cloud computing technology:

You cloud computing people, why are you competing with me on personal online disk!

With such a shallow application, you have the nerve to call yourself a high-tech cloud computing company! Pah!

If you have time to cry and talk nonsense here, wouldn't it be better for you to study R&D?

Save me from running ahead again next time, and you can't catch up even if you want to get your face close to me and get beaten.

The article is very professional, not only pointing out their technical shortcomings, but also pointing out the future development direction of cloud computing technology, and several points are things they have not thought about before, but they are terrifying when you think about them carefully.

This time, it was really a slap in the face, and it made him self-aware.

Well-reasoned and murderous.

BB's voice soon died down, because if he continued to pester, he would only lose face.

This feeling is like Zhang San and Li Si sweeping the floor in Shaolin Temple for two years, thinking that they have mastered the broom technique and can sweep the floor very quickly. Suddenly one day a sweeping monk came out, and with a big broom, all the leaves were swept away.

Zhang San and Li Si were dissatisfied and went to fight the sweeping monk.

The sweeping monk pointed at the Sutra Library: Is it meaningful for you to study brooms in this life? This is the sea of ​​stars.

Seeing the peerless treasures everywhere, Zhang San and Li Si silently put down the broom: You are right!

The competitor admitted his defeat, but the original application for investigation against Cao Shen could not be withdrawn.

And President Cao also had the style of a sweeping monk. He generously let go of past grudges and personally led this group of defeated subordinates to visit the data center of Tongcao Technology in the suburbs of Beiji.

The scale is really just right, with 10,000 servers! It is the largest data center in the country today.

At first, some people doubted whether the machines were so new just for show.

After all, there are many data centers that are used to make achievements, and because there is no business, the servers are gathering dust.

However, the information they obtained from the power supply bureau showed that Mr. Cao's data center actually had an 80% power-on rate!

It was almost running at full capacity, and it was the largest electricity user in the suburbs!

That little bit of doubt also disappeared immediately. It seems that he is the leader of the domestic cloud computing, from technology to computing power.

There was also a person named Zhao Rui who came to visit this time. He is the president of Taotao Cloud Computing Division. Seeing this scene, he went back and wrote a report silently:

"Tongcao Technology will become the biggest competitor of Taotao Cloud Computing!"

As for tax payment, Tongcao Technology is registered in Xiguancun Science Park. Because of its outstanding contribution and being a star high-tech enterprise, it is tax-free this year.

Not only that, Zhang Fei of the Beiji Science and Technology Commission also specifically stated that the country will definitely strongly support representative high-tech enterprises like Mr. Cao. Not only tax exemption this year, but also tax exemption next year!

Speaking of audit, Tongcao Technology has been established for more than half a year, and it is not time for audit yet.

Oh, I jumped up and wanted to fight with others, but I found that I didn’t fight with anything, but I was particularly embarrassed.

In this PK, Cao Shen won the face and the inside.

Looking at his "data center", Mr. Cao sighed:

"I really spent a lot of money. Especially these graphics cards, they are too expensive!"

[Come on, what kind of data center is this? I am the data center. Proudly raised his little chin]

"Yes, yes, you are the data center, the core competitiveness of our Tongcao Technology."

[Now that the crisis has been resolved, do these machines still need to run? ]

"Of course, keep running, maybe you can make a lot of money in the future."

Cao Shen's server is not running data now, but "mining"! Not only that, he is not mining with CPU, but with graphics cards.

Yes, that's right, this world also has something similar to Bitcoin called computing power coin, but it came out later than the original world and just popped up not long ago.

Cao Shen carefully studied the white paper of the computing power coin, which is similar to Bitcoin. Considering that sooner or later someone would complain about his own network disk and hosting, it is better to just use a trick.

So, he asked Zhang Fei to approve a piece of land and built a data center. Oh, no, it is actually a mining pool base.

The reason why the cloud disk was released on July 24 is that it is waiting for the data center to be completed and to make a complete show.

He was thinking about the data center when he participated in the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the incubator that day, and the mining pool only needs to develop one application, which is the SHA256 hash function algorithm, which is much simpler than deploying a cloud computing data center.

So in less than 20 days, the whole card came out, and this thing is absolutely power-consuming. If it were not for the characteristics of a proper data center and the need to keep some spare machines, Mr. Cao would have wanted all the servers to run at full load.

As for whether the computing power coin will be as valuable as Bitcoin in the future, Cao Shen is not worried. Even if it is not valuable, he can make it valuable. After all, Mr. Cao knows how Bitcoin came about. However, there are too few people playing it now, so it’s less interesting.

It is better to join the fun on the crowded mobile Internet first. After all, only when there is someone to fight against can you use your brain, have fun, and enjoy the sense of subversion.

Money can be earned at any time, so let the computing power coin fly for a while.

The crisis is resolved, and Cao Shen will immediately continue to devote himself to his "great cause".

July 28th is the day before the traditional Valentine's Day.

Tongtong Ai Xiaochu was updated today, and an unprecedented large-scale operation event was held.

The event lasts for two days, "Me and My——".

It is to show off your love on Valentine's Day, but the rewards are very tempting.

Through the updated photo function module of Tongtong Ai Xiaochu, you can take a selfie to generate a cool or beautiful two-dimensional avatar of yourself. This avatar will match you with the perfect figure and posture, and be combined with the doll you choose to become a dog food photo.

Of course, there are optional background pictures, but the background picture must be a scene that has appeared in the doll's "itinerary" before. This can create a kind of effect: Why didn't I trigger this scene? What happened? Continue to go back to the liver after PK.

The most special thing about selfies is that they really capture the facial features of individuals, but they are beautified to the extreme, making users feel that "this is what I look like in the second dimension, so handsome!"

The synthesized dog food photos can be shared with the community with one click, and participate in voting and evaluation.

All contestants can get a set of limited edition Valentine's Day skins. The 21 provinces in the country are divided into 21 competition areas. The top 100 in each competition area can also get a set of limited background "Love Apartment".

The top ten in each competition area will have a prize of 1,000 yuan, and the first place can also get an exclusive customized couple figure.

The high-end figure produced by Neon Country that was customized for Wang Sizhai earlier has arrived, and it is lifelike and exquisite.

Good things should be shared with everyone. All Love Elimination decisively took high-definition photos of Wang Sizhai's little baby from various angles and posted them in the community.

Players didn't have any expectations for the figures at first, thinking that this kind of official product is probably the inferior goods on Taotao. As a result, when they saw the photos, not to mention that Wang Sizhai's taste is shameless, the fineness instantly made the whole community explode.

Roaring I want it! I want it! I am very enthusiastic about uploading my own dog food, and racking my brains to canvass votes for myself.

I may not have a chance in the national unified evaluation, but I can also strive for it in the region, right? Especially in those areas where the penetration rate of all love elimination is not high enough, it is simply enviable, which means that there are few competitors!

Voting requires downloading and registering "Smile O2O", so the penetration rate of Mr. Cao's APP has been further improved in various regions.

Even if it is not for the bonus and the hand-made figures, because it is just a two-dimensional face for selfies, it can show its own style without revealing the real face, and the operation is extremely simple, so there are a lot of players participating. Besides, there is a consolation prize after all, and this set of couples' costumes is still very desirable.

Anyone who has used the built-in shooting function of the game will passively download the "Smile O2O" APP.

Originally, users did not like this buy one get one free, but they endured it in the case of participating in the competition. After trying this photo APP, they found that it was really good, better than all the photo and photo editing software on the market, so very few deleted it.

The Valentine's Day dog ​​food event of Tongtong Ai Xiaochu was in full swing. As of the early morning of July 30, the "Wei Wei Yi Xiao" APP, including users of smartphones and feature phones, had a total of 240 million downloads, which was well-deserved to be the "national application" with the largest number of downloads.

On August 8, TT Technology was about to release its co-branded smartphone, and Weihua was also going to release a major version update. At this time, the atmosphere of the entire TT Technology was very tense, as this was almost their most important strategic product release this year.

Zhang Da personally experienced the upcoming version of Weihua again, and specially called Fang De, the head of the Weihua team, to the office.

"De, look at the Weiwei Smile that Cao Shen has made. I checked today and it already has 240 million users. It seems that users have a strong demand for photo and beauty apps. Why don't we make one?"

"Mr. Zhang, our TT's basic market is social networking. Photo and beauty apps are just tools, and such tools are unlikely to grow any social attributes. So for now, I think we should focus on stabilizing our basic market."

Fang De said, picked up his phone, and clicked on the latest test version of Weihua:

"And this version of ours has a major breakthrough.

This circle of friends can also take pictures, and your friends can also see the pictures, like them, and comment on them.

This is a very good interaction, which enhances the stickiness of social networking and increases the user's usage time and frequency of opening.

When we do social networking, we don't use those virtual tools. Only when the tools serve social networking can they come alive."

Zhang Da nodded, "Circle of Friends" is the most important function of this Weihua, and he also has high hopes for it.

But after thinking for a while, he said:

"Why don't we add the beauty filter function to the camera of our Moments?

Since Weiweixiao can gain such a large number of users in a short time, it means that users have a demand for beauty pictures.

Today is the 30th. If we want to make this function, there are still a few days."

Fang De pondered for a moment, shook his head and said:

"I don't think it's necessary. The original intention of our Moments is to let users record a beautiful life, not a fake life.

Only by opening your heart to face this real world can you feel the beauty of life.

And life is not 100% perfect. It is precisely because it is not perfect, has gaps and regrets that it can form a kind of beauty that is constantly being completed.

I think it is better not to use filters and beauty to deceive users, and restore a beautiful and real world to them that is yet to be discovered. "

Zhang Da smiled when he heard this and put his hand on Fang De's shoulder:

"As expected, you can still keep your original intention and still have the literary and artistic style in your bones. Very good, very good, then let's restore the reality to users! ”

If Mr. Cao heard this, he would definitely laugh. It was indeed a conversation between two rich people. You guys want money and a wife after you become famous, and you start to pursue a return to nature in a hypocritical way.

This is essentially right. WeChat did the same thing back then.

And because of this, even though beauty and beauty pictures became popular later, because of WeChat’s original intention, even if everyone knew about the existence of filters, they would automatically have more tolerance for photos in WeChat. It is a little different from the mentality of facing the Douyin filter.

So, WeChat’s filter-free "personality" still has some effect.

However, Zhang Da and Fang De are the chairman of TT and the executive and top product manager of TT respectively.

They can no longer understand that there are countless people whose lives are not satisfactory. They may not be able to get such a rich, status and everything-free life even if they try their best.

They need beauty, even if it is a mirage, to make themselves feel that they are living well and that there is still hope.

It is difficult to create real beauty for yourself. But you can create a beautiful feeling to make your life not bitter.

What proportion of photos in the circle of friends in the original world are Not beautified?

Users don’t know, are the pictures they see beautified? They know.

Users don’t know, are the beauties on Douyin filtered? They know too.

Users don’t know, are they not as beautiful and handsome as they appear in the beauty camera?

Users don’t know, is the dish in front of them not as delicious as it looks in the photo?

Users don’t know, is the scenery of this scenic spot they came from a long way not as good as the camera photo?

Life is hard, so life is over?

No, be self-perfect! Even in beautification, do not give up the pursuit of refinement.

Yearning Beauty is never wrong.

What is presented in the photos is never false.

It is expectation.

It is the courage of optimism.

It is the expectation of a better life when one is powerless.

It is the courage to continue to look forward to the future after failing to obtain it.

Even if the house is leaking and it rains all night, my heart has its own sky.

August 1st is a special holiday.

Today, "A Smile" ushered in a major version update.

The mobile Internet world is exploding!

Cao Shen is no longer the kid who does backend hosting, he is on the front battlefield.

This world, my era, is coming!