Thursday, December 29, 2005

Simplicity Defined

You have to admire a simple and great idea like this one - making nearly one million dollars with the Internet in four months. 21-year-old Alex Tew created milliondollarhomepage.com, offering anyone who wanted a chance to buy one or a dozen or however many pixels for only one dollar per pixel.

In four months, he's sold over 900,000.

3 comments:

  1. Anonymous6:40 PM

    I didn't think it was legal to sell pixels. Isn't it against their basic human rights?

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  2. Anonymous12:19 AM

    According to the site (and the FAQ), the number of pixels sold is 0. Do you have inside information?

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  3. Alice -
    The Reuters story in the 2nd link has the details.
    Or just read Alex's blog as of Dec. 30th:
    "As for pixel orders, they are flowing in at a truely tremendous rate. We're currently facing a 48,000+ pixel order backlog - which means the million mark will be almost certainly be reached within the next few hours, which is before the new year arrives - awesome! I really didn't expect it to happen this fast, but this little project of mine has just entered a new stratosphere."

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