Alex Tew, a student in England, has almost reached his target of one million dollars on his website: Million Dollar Homepage. He came up with the idea after jotting down ideas before he went to bed on how to become a millionaire before he went to university. Then he came up with the million-dollar idea: selling pixels at USD $1 each on a web page. Alex currently believes he can make his goal by the end of 31st December, 2005.
His website's method is simple; his website is made up of one page divided into 10,000 boxes, each 100 pixels in size. Companies can buy one or more boxes for USD $100 each and cover it with a logo, which, when clicked on, transports web users to the customers' own site. The figures add up with the site now carrying over 240 advertisements and has 30,000 hits a day. Even the actor Jack Black, star of "School of Rock" and "Shallow Hal", is using the site to advertise his band Tenacious D.
Another ridiculously (by internet terms) old news article. I remember reading about this when he first started the page. The guy would spam lots of forums and call up newspapers and radio stations trying to pass it off as newsworthy. Unfortunately enough suckers, I mean people went with it.
I don't have a problem with the guy making money for nothing, but just the way he did it by initially spamming lots of forums and making posts (a lot like this one) to make it look like there was a genuine interest.
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Rib wrote:Another ridiculously (by internet terms) old news article. I remember reading about this when he first started the page. The guy would spam lots of forums and call up newspapers and radio stations trying to pass it off as newsworthy. Unfortunately enough suckers, I mean people went with it.
I don't have a problem with the guy making money for nothing, but just the way he did it by initially spamming lots of forums and making posts (a lot like this one) to make it look like there was a genuine interest.
Ah yes. I learned about "marketing people" a few years back. Unfortunately for me, I'll never be able to trust any Sales or Marketing people again, after a rather unpleaseant relationship. Brought a whole new meaning to the word "assertive".
He gets $100 for each little square, which is great for him. But he guarantees he's going to keep this page online for at least 5 years. As the page continues to become famous, isn't the bandwidth eventually going to kill him? A million dollars is a lot of money, but his bandwidth over 5 years could actually cost more than that, especially with the fame/notoriety of the page driving lots of traffic. I wonder if he'll eventually have some kind of banner ads or something on the page as well, for continuing revenue.
Martoon wrote:He gets $100 for each little square, which is great for him. But he guarantees he's going to keep this page online for at least 5 years. As the page continues to become famous, isn't the bandwidth eventually going to kill him? A million dollars is a lot of money, but his bandwidth over 5 years could actually cost more than that, especially with the fame/notoriety of the page driving lots of traffic. I wonder if he'll eventually have some kind of banner ads or something on the page as well, for continuing revenue.
Nah, it's not the kind of site to go down in internet lore forever. More the site that will be popular for a year and then fade away as he will no longer need to advertise it like he is now.
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Good rule of thumb - if the Rev hates it, it's ace - Yak
Rib wrote:Nah, it's not the kind of site to go down in internet lore forever. More the site that will be popular for a year and then fade away as he will no longer need to advertise it like he is now.
Ahhh but if lots of people club together and link it all over the place it will
put the costs up.
Rival project ahoy!
but just the way he did it by initially spamming lots of forums and making posts (a lot like this one) to make it look like there was a genuine interest.
But isn't that alot like life? Everyone selling, bullshitting and scheming their way through it all (life) :/
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Martoon wrote:He gets $100 for each little square, which is great for him. But he guarantees he's going to keep this page online for at least 5 years. As the page continues to become famous, isn't the bandwidth eventually going to kill him? A million dollars is a lot of money, but his bandwidth over 5 years could actually cost more than that, especially with the fame/notoriety of the page driving lots of traffic. I wonder if he'll eventually have some kind of banner ads or something on the page as well, for continuing revenue.
Nah, it's not the kind of site to go down in internet lore forever. More the site that will be popular for a year and then fade away as he will no longer need to advertise it like he is now.
We've known about it for a year and it's still going.
