Cash Pours in for Student with $1 Million Web Idea

Quantum Logic writes "Alex Tew, a 21-year-old student from a small town in England, earned a cool million dollars in four months on the Internet. Selling porn? Dealing prescription drugs? Nope. All he sells are pixels. The idea: turn his home page into a billboard made up of a million dots, and sell them for a dollar a dot to anyone who wants to put up their logo. A 10 by 10 dot square, roughly the size of a letter of type, costs $100. He sold a few to his brothers and some friends, and when he had made $1,000, he issued a press release. That was picked up by the news media, spread around the Internet, and soon advertisers for everything from dating sites to casinos to real estate agents to The Times of London were putting up real cash for pixels, with links to their own sites."

It makes me angry...

[Kickboy12]

...cause I didn't think of it first. :(

It's so simple! *bangs head on table*

I am selling space in my sig

[MillionthMonkey]

$1 buys you a character. I hope to collect a cool $120 by the time this is all over.

In a totally unreleted news

[Vivek Jishtu]

The site got unexpected high hits from slashdot :) which means more sales.

Like PT Barnum said...

[Stickerboy]

...there's a sucker born every minute.

Or in this case, at least 10,000 in 4 months.

new server

[pvt_medic]

Well looks like he'll need that money for a new server...

Holy old news.

[User 956]

This is seriously old news [i4u.com]. Like, from September old. What next, are we going to get an editorial about this new phenomenon called "blogging"?

Re:I don't get it..

[jdbartlett]

You're missing something, probably a 21st century browser.

And now that he has been featured on slashdot ...

[ClickOnThis]

... his cool million will be wiped out by his bandwidth bills.

Re:Holy old news.

[Anonymous Coward]

an editorial about this new phenomenon called "blogging"?

Hmm. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

Re:Just goes to show...

[Profane MuthaFucka]

I can tell you exactly. 1 cumshot is about a half-teaspoon for me, and it took me 1536 shots to fill a gallon milk jug. I was doing this for 12 hours a day, and on average I could shoot about 18 times if I really tried. It took almost 3 months for me to fill the milk jug up. 85 days, actually. Finished up just after noon on the 85th day.

Told you I was hardcore.

Re:rest of the article

[glomph]

I own an acre on the moon.

Yeah! Tell me about it... keep your damn dog from crapping on my front yard!

Goatse

[Anonymous Coward]

ok, who wants to chip in to get a goatse up on this page?

Re:rest of the article

[SEWilco]

I own an acre on the moon.

I'll pay you $1 for it if you can change it to be a specific color.

Re:It makes me angry...

[rjshields]

- Create a blog, sift through a couple of common sites and "aggregate" articles, then post to other people's blogs citing your blog as a news source

You just reinvented Slashdot!

Re:It makes me angry...

[superyooser]

The competitive response is even simpler.

www.twomilliondollarhomepage.com

Now with twice the pixels!

Why should you buy space?

[Propaganda13]

Cause Manboobs says so.

"MillionDollarHomePage.com has proved to be a fantastic investment for manboobs.co.uk. For a relatively small outlay our hits have increased 10 fold in 2 days. Great idea which really works. Thanks Alex !"

Ian Whitcombe
www.manboobs.co.uk
Pixels purchased: 100

Re:It makes me angry...

[Anonymous Coward]

Those who do not understand Slashdot are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.

Re:I am selling space in my sig

[Fazlazen]

I'm sitting here wondering if it's worth $20 to have you spend the rest of eternity with "I blow dead donkeys." in your sig.

Re:rest of the article

[Reziac]

To restate what you said in the fewest possible words...

If you build it, they will come!

Happens everywhere. Provide access, and housing magically sprouts.