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g-smooth2k
12-30-2005, 12:35 PM
Million Dollar Homepage

How 'bout we take out an ad on there?

http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com for those uninitiated.

$1 USD per pixel, sold in blocks of 10x10 pixels. There's a couple good places for, oh, an 80x20 ($1600) ad - one right above the "Free Laptops" on the left, and a couple near the PartyPoker ad.

http://brianx.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-pics/million-dollar-homepage.jpg

What is the Million Dollar Homepage?
The idea of the site is to sell 1,000,000 pixels at $1 each, thus earning a million dollars. The word pixel stands for picture element. It is a tiny dot on your computer monitor or TV screen. Pixels form the basis of a screen. There are millions of them and they light up in different colors based on what you are watching. Generally speaking, the more pixels, the sharper the image on your screen.

What Alex Tew did was isolated the space taking up a million pixels on a website and offer to sell each one. Since selling one pixel at a time would be too tedious and complex from a logistics perspective, it makes sense that he decided to sell his pixels in blocks of 100 (or $100) minimum. The more blocks you buy, the larger the space you have on the page meaning you can put larger banners up.

hmmm.

Lord_of_the_Dense
12-30-2005, 12:58 PM
I read about that. Pretty damn impressive.

Project-Buckfast
12-30-2005, 01:18 PM
I seen this when it had first opened, it's got shit loads more than it did at the start. I also remember reading somewhere that paypal froze the account of the guy that was running the site... It's a smart idea though...

Lord_of_the_Dense
01-14-2006, 08:43 PM
Million Dollar Homepage Targeted In Huge Denial-Of-Service Attack

The Million Dollar Homepage, an ad gimmick that brought more than $1 million to its 21-year-old creator, was under a massive denial-of-service attack Friday, the Web site's hosting company said.

The site that was the brainstorm of British college student Alex Tew was unreachable for much of the day Thursday, as 10s of thousands of computers controlled by an unknown group or person overwhelmed the site's servers with requests. The site was up Friday due to the voluntary efforts of the hosting company, InfoRelay Online Systems Inc.

Tew drew international attention when his September idea to sell a million pixels on his homepage for a $1 each to advertisers took off. Earlier this week, an EBay Inc. auction for the last 1,000 pixels brought in $38,100, which brought the total amount of money raised to $1,037,100.

Read entire story here (http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20060114/tc_cmp/177100351).

airmcnair06
01-15-2006, 12:42 AM
site wont come up right now...

Project-Buckfast
01-15-2006, 07:39 AM
All the pixels are gone. I wish I was that guy lol, he's a millionaire now....