Yes, everyone must have heard about this now. Alex Tew, that student who made a website, selling each pixel off as advertising space, and making himself over $1,000,000.
As he sells his last thousand pixels (going for £21,600 on eBay) I find myself increadibly jealous. But I say “well played!” to Mr Tew.
And “Oh dear!” to the people behind the copycat sites. Pinkmilliondollars.com (I’m not even going to link it…) has been set up by 22 year old Rupa Kanabar in an attempt to cash in on Tew’s stroke of g’nus, aimed at the “Pink Dollar“.
She clearly fails to see the one-time novelty of such an idea. The original site, milliondollarhomepage.com, worked because of a) it was an original idea and subsequently b) because it got lots of media coverage. Kanabar and other’s clones don’t quite have the same effect. It’s been done, it worked the first time, and I very much doubt it will work again.
Though best of luck to her, and I hope I have to eat my words one day. Wouldn’t we all like to be a little better off?
Thanks to The Register.
