I first read about the Million Dollar Home Page on Hamarana in September. A 21-year-old student sold a million pixels for one dollar each.
Hamarana commented it was a great idea, but not one that could or should be replicated.
It seems many wannabes don’t share that view. Search google for the topic and see what I mean.
Opportunists and scam artists have jumped on the concept in spam proportions. The original is worth praising for its sheer ingenuity. The rest are vultures feeding on the carcase of an idea.
According to Wikipedia: The Million Dollar Homepage is a website conceived in 2005 by Alex Tew, a student from Wiltshire, England, to raise money for his university education. The home page consists of a million pixels arranged in a 1000 × 1000 pixel grid; the image-based links on it were sold for $1 per pixel in 10 × 10 blocks. The purchasers of these pixel blocks provided tiny images to be displayed on them, a URL to which the images were linked, and a slogan to be displayed when hovering a cursor over the link. The aim of the website was to sell all of the pixels in the image, thus generating a million dollars of income for the creator. The Wall Street Journal has commented that the site inspired other websites that sell pixels.”
Clever, but no thanks.
