The Million Dollar Homepage
December 31st, 2005
This guy came up with the idea of selling “pixels” on a web page for $1 apiece. He guarantees the site will be up for at least five years, and hopefully forever. So far he’s sold more than 870,000 of the 1,000,000 available pixels (hence the site name). What a way to become a millionaire!
http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/
UPDATE: Additional info here.
[link]Chad’s News » One Red Paperclip Says:
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December 11th, 2006 at 1:35 am
[…] Fresh on the heels of The Million Dollar Homepage, Alex Tew has come up with a new idea: Pixelotto. The pixels cost twice as much ($2 apiece), but he’s going to give away the extra $1 million to a random user who clicks one of the advertisements. Nice idea. The prize fund is already up to $135,000. […]