Goodbye, Heart Wave Saturday.

Getting up at seven in the morning, Lu Zhou and Ye Qingchen left together.

"The designs you showed me for the bananas are pretty good," Lu Zhou said while flipping through the pictures on his laptop and talking to Ye Qingchen.

Ye Qingchen smiled at Lu Zhou and said, "Thank you."

He handed his laptop to Ye Qingchen and said, "You can choose one since you showed me a few designs."

Ye Qingchen took the laptop and placed it on his lap, carefully examining the final versions of his logo designs.

One minute, five minutes, ten minutes...

Lu Zhou watched her with a slightly furrowed brow, her expression serious, as if pondering a question.

He didn't disturb her and smiled as he watched her. After a while, Lu Zhou took out his phone and casually opened some applications.

He first opened the testing application for the banana project. At the moment, with the code deployed on the testing server, the banana application was functional.

However, in the upcoming week, they still needed to optimize some features in the test version.

Once the optimization was complete, the banana market would be officially launched, and they would then need to arrange the offline promotion work.

After browsing through it briefly, Lu Zhou closed the banana market application and started thinking about the design of some features for Dream Grain WeChat.

In his previous life, Lu Zhou had used WeChat for many years, and due to his entrepreneurial experience, he was naturally familiar with WeChat, the classic case. After all, the nickname "God of Products" wasn't just for show. Zhang Xiaolong was a true product master, and studying the WeChat case was a necessary course.

Therefore, the product of Dream Grain WeChat could largely follow Lu Zhou's memory, with the addition of version updates and rapid iterations to gain an advantage.

As for the backend and server technology, Director Zhang had promised to introduce some people to Lu Zhou, but he hadn't received any information yet.

It wouldn't be polite to rush, so Lu Zhou could only put it aside for now. After all, research couldn't be done in a rush, and being a week early or a week late wouldn't have a significant impact on the overall situation.

For this part, Dream Grain WeChat could adopt some transitional solutions in the early stages.

Lu Zhou then opened Weibo and casually scrolled through it.

This was a test account Lu Zhou had registered when he started his Weibo fan business not long ago. Anyway, it wasn't linked to the Alibaba Mall's database, so he could use it now.

He gave his Weibo account the name "Luke86" and hadn't used it or posted anything before.

While contemplating the design of Dream Grain WeChat, Lu Zhou felt a strong desire to express himself. With no one to talk to about it, and Ye Qingchen not understanding the topic, he could only share his thoughts on Weibo.

He opened Weibo and typed a sentence, "The penguins might be late, but they will definitely arrive."

In January of this year, Weibo 163 went live, and this Wednesday, Sohu Weibo went live.

And soon, Penguin Weibo would complete its internal testing and be officially launched.

Several internet companies are intertwined in the Weibo domain, and amidst their strategic deployments, a silent war is about to erupt.

Lu Zhou chose to enter the Weibo domain at the beginning, considering the current situation.

Since its launch in 2009, Heart Wave has paved the way for Weibo's era in the Chinese internet for the next two years.

Whether it's a coincidence or inevitable, Heart Wave localized Twitter and opened up a path in the social domain of the internet.

No one expected this move to come from Heart Wave, nor did anyone anticipate the astonishing impact of Weibo.

The rapid development of Weibo even made the Chinese internet realize that the Great Wall of Tencent in the social domain wasn't as invincible as imagined.

Why are so many Chinese internet companies plagued by such deep "Penguin-phobia"?

Lu Zhou continued to write in his Weibo, "It's almost impossible to develop social aspects from two domains, information flow aggregation or commercial transaction chains. However, by starting from the social chain, we can promote the former two. When it comes to vertical domains, entrepreneurs can bypass Baidu and Alibaba, but they can never bypass Tencent."

After finishing the post, Lu Zhou couldn't help feeling a bit self-indulgent.

The Weibo war has raged for two to three years, leaving no survivors on either side, which is exactly what Lu Zhou wanted to see.

Heart Wave's Weibo has made Penguin, who operates in the same social domain, extremely anxious, and Penguin's countermeasures against Heart Wave are inevitable.

Even in the final confrontation, although Penguin withdrew from the Weibo domain, the pace of Heart Wave itself was also swayed by this silent war.

After the victory, Heart Wave successively launched new versions, introduced Weibo membership fees, and ventured into payment services with Weibo Wallet...

It didn't kill the suspense of the competition, but rather harmed itself.

Lu Zhou then looked at the future with his transcendent perspective from his previous life. After winning the Weibo war in the next three years, where would the key to victory lie?

Two points: social recommendation mechanisms and algorithm-based big data recommendation mechanisms.

Lu Zhou shook his head and thought, "Today's headlines, Douyin."

He pondered, "If Weibo hadn't deviated Penguin, what would happen to Today's headlines? Nothing. Weibo naturally fits the product forms under these two mechanisms, but in the previous life by 2017, when Weibo woke up, Douyin had already become a giant."

After posting, Lu Zhou continued tapping his phone screen and posted a third Weibo, "In the Weibo war, no one will survive. It's useless to strangle the penguin and tighten its red scarf. Farewell, Heart Wave."

Finally, he wrote, "We are born lonely. Either we immerse ourselves in the illusion of reality or we numb ourselves in the seemingly enjoyable information flow. This way, at least we won't feel as empty. But you users are so demanding, being a product is such a hassle, and we still have to constantly ponder your inner thoughts."

After finishing the last Weibo, Lu Zhou put away his phone.

He wasn't worried about others seeing his seemingly contradictory words. He just wanted to find a vent and leave traces of his thoughts for his future self.

He didn't make a big fuss, wanting others to see it and listen to their praises, but at the same time, he felt a bit conflicted about not wanting others to see it.

"I suddenly understand why WeChat is designed by a lonely soul."

Lu Zhou shook his head and looked at Ye Qingchen.

He playfully touched Ye Qingchen's face, but she directly slapped his hand away, completely focused on editing

the design draft.

"Hehe. Loneliness? It doesn't exist," Lu Zhou thought.

"Qingchen."

"Yes."

"What are you doing?"

Ye Qingchen moved her eyes away from the screen, glanced at Lu Zhou sideways, and then ignored him.

Lu Zhou continued to watch her, and after a while.

"Be my girlfriend."

Ye Qingchen's fingers on the keyboard unconsciously trembled, but she didn't dare to look at Lu Zhou.

"You have about five seconds to decide."

"And don't think about escaping here, we're already on the car heading towards the future."

"Alright, five seconds are up."

Lu Zhou grabbed Ye Qingchen's hand, pecked it fiercely, and left a red mark.

"Stamped and received."

Ye Qingchen blushed, unable to speak for a long time.

After a while, a few words finally came out of her mouth, "You bully."

"That's right."

"Okay, you're busy."

After saying that, Lu Zhou took out some books from his backpack and didn't pay attention to whether Ye Qingchen could calm down or not.

Ye Qingchen muttered, "You bad guy. Hmph."

But she couldn't help but smile on her face.

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