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| The Million Dollar Homepage |
Fresh or Unique??
Unique..Or Crazy Ideas, your call.
Our Review
One of my favorites ideas on the net. Though the content might not be very useful for us and it's 'old' already (2005), it's the originality of the ideas that matters. The creator Alex Tew is just 21 years old when accidentally found out this unique ideas after he wanna make some money to pay his college bills.
The index page of the site consists of a 1000 x 1000 pixel grid (one million pixels), which he sells image-based links on for US $1 per pixel, in minimum ten by ten blocks. A person who buys one or more of these pixel blocks can design a tiny image which will be displayed on them, and also decide a URL which he or she wants them to link to, as well as a slogan displayed when hovering the cursor over the link. The aim of the site was to sell all of the pixels in the image, thus generating one million dollars of income for the creator, which has been accomplished!
Unique..Or Crazy Ideas, your call.
Our Review
One of my favorites ideas on the net. Though the content might not be very useful for us and it's 'old' already (2005), it's the originality of the ideas that matters. The creator Alex Tew is just 21 years old when accidentally found out this unique ideas after he wanna make some money to pay his college bills.
The index page of the site consists of a 1000 x 1000 pixel grid (one million pixels), which he sells image-based links on for US $1 per pixel, in minimum ten by ten blocks. A person who buys one or more of these pixel blocks can design a tiny image which will be displayed on them, and also decide a URL which he or she wants them to link to, as well as a slogan displayed when hovering the cursor over the link. The aim of the site was to sell all of the pixels in the image, thus generating one million dollars of income for the creator, which has been accomplished!
The website's visibility was dramatically accelerated when the initial press release heralding the Million Dollar Homepage was posted on Digg.com and reached Digg's highly visited homepage. Tew says. "The more people talked about the site, the more money I made," he says. "And the more money I made, the more people talked about the site. It's a self-perpetuating idea."
Critics of the site claim that it is nothing but a large advertising banner; the defenders point out that what gives it so many visitors is not the banners themselves, but rather the original and novel concept of the site.
A very simple ideas, but it already gave Alex a million dollar, which proved how powerful an ideas could be. Though nowadays there have been a lot of imitators, he said "quite funny, really," he doesn't like the "rip-off sites" that borrow heavily from his idea. "The one thing that everybody seems to be missing is that it's one of those crazy ideas that only works once. I was first to market and therefore I got 99 percent of the attention. Good luck to the imitators." (Well, good luck to you too!)
Conclusion
Now Alex created a new website he called One Million People (www.onemillionpeople.com) that can make 3 Million dollars!! Maybe next time I'll review that in this blog. But first, you should see his idea at www.milliondollarhomepage.com :)
Now Alex created a new website he called One Million People (www.onemillionpeople.com) that can make 3 Million dollars!! Maybe next time I'll review that in this blog. But first, you should see his idea at www.milliondollarhomepage.com :)
What should I do next?
If you wish for one million dollar, develop some crazy ideas, and realize it. Well, if it's not, regular ideas are just okay, too ^ ^
If you wish for one million dollar, develop some crazy ideas, and realize it. Well, if it's not, regular ideas are just okay, too ^ ^
iQueesh Craziness Rating 10 out of 10.. I'm serious.
References: http://www.myclassiclyrics.com/artist_biographies/Alex_Tew_Biography.htm
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