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Any one else think the article might be about a retina version of:
http://www.milliondollarhomepa...

Here is a beta release of the new Google Streetmap.

At one dollar per pixel, it will cost them almost 19M$!

It costs 99$ per year to become an iPhone/iPod touch developer, so he only made 5500$. :P

A bit off-topic but interesting fact: the iPhone/iPod touch screen is 480x320 pixels, making this 999.99$ "artwork" 0.0065103515625$/pixel. That's still a lot cheaper than 1$ per pixel. ;)

Or even this?

The former is a blatant comedic stroke of genius. The second is the same as the squatter sites.

If only people had to, say, pay per pixel... Imagine the screen estate saved!

I fully anticipate the day web pages are 100% ads, nothing else (we're close!).

Where have you been hiding? We're already there. Mistyped a url lately? Found a result in google that's sold the domain? And what about this guy?

Im sick and tired of having to view 11 pages of adds to read an article that could easily fit on one. Easily 6 adds per page.

You go there to read the article? Damn, I go there to enjoy the ads, and that little article paragraph in the middle? It's pissing me off. It's right in the middle, getting in my way, demanding attention, as if I have nothing better to do than read articles all day.

Can't there be site with just the ads and no pesky articles?

And then I found this. Best. Site. Ever.

Register Lexus-Financail.com, make it another http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ and send 2% to me for the idea :) Thanks.

...and your point is? This is like the guy with the million dollar home page, who was covered in slashdot (but which references I can't find since slashdot search = pissy). Why do you draw the distinction of 'tangible goods -vs- emotional value'? Why does a publicity deal =! legit?

These guys found ways to increase the overall value of their tangible goods through emotional appeal. Over and over and over... Why are their accomplishments diminished simply because you and I can't likely follow their path and do the same thing?

in http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ you can see thousands of pixels and until some time ago you could even own some!

I am inventing TrollCalc, a spreadsheet that lets trolls flamewar each other's content in a grid-like fashion. After that comes OfftopicCalc and SpamCalc. Never mind the last one, http://milliondollarhomepage.com/ beat me to it.

they could have bought one for only $1000 at http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

sounds to me like they need to auction each of those megahertz on eBay! http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

A link to the actual page the article is talking about would be helpful. Can anyone find the picture of CowboyNeal?

All nice about the money making. I am more interested if he does it all by hand or does it with a script or program. Placing the stuff must be a hell of a job considering not all sqares are the same size.

http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/img-pix/image -map.png is the image you see.

Who cares about the money? I want to know how it works.

From the FAQ (http://milliondollarhomepage.com/faq.php#10)

10. If you're from the UK, why are you selling the pixels in dollars?

I think US dollars are the closest thing we have to a universal currency on the internet, so it made more sense to do it in dollars. 'The Million Pound Homepage' just doesn't have the same ring to it!

Also, given that the US has the largest online population in the world, more people will be able to relate to the concept than had I done it in British pounds. Plus, £1 GBP per pixel would probably be too expensive (would equate to around $1.80 US per pixel).

First of all, consume large amounts of acid (just not the brown ones) then proceed to webpage. http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ and then see what catches your eye. In my case it was the pixels that said "jesus" which you can see here: http://www.pixel4jesus.com/en/. It would seem that everyone that bought from http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ was ripped off. Twice the profit margin. Oh, BTW jesus says "hi, and has the sage advice to not pour bleach into your eyes", even though it seems like a good idea when on acid.... I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW THE RAIN HAS GONE!!!!!!!!!!

First of all, consume large amounts of acid (just not the brown ones) then proceed to webpage. http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ and then see what catches your eye. In my case it was the pixels that said "jesus" which you can see here: http://www.pixel4jesus.com/en/. It would seem that everyone that bought from http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ was ripped off. Twice the profit margin. Oh, BTW jesus says "hi, and has the sage advice to not pour bleach into your eyes", even though it seems like a good idea when on acid.... I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW THE RAIN HAS GONE!!!!!!!!!!

He's had a lot of mainstream press coverage before today -- see his Press page.

He has a very high Alexa rank of 1480th in the world (ya, not exactly the most reliable source but better than nothing) . His reach per million users is 810, which I think means around 150,000 to 200,000 visitors a day.

Sure, anything *could* be a hoax, and I am usually pretty skeptical with these things, but I really don't think so in this case. Journalists have seen his paypal account (like from the Times Online) and verified the money.

Follow the later links to the site, not the imagemap link that was posted earlier.

You can't click on any of the ads. What's the point? Or am I missing something here?

Score:-1, Legally Blind

Yes, the URL is in the article, just not as a link - you'd have to copy/paste into your address bar, but it's there. Quote:

"He had the brainstorm for his million dollar home page, called, logically enough, www.milliondollarhomepage.com..."

Now go play in the street. Follow the sound of the bouncing ball...

I read his blog earlier today before it hit slashdot, he writes a fair amount about traffic hits, I wonder if /. will rate a mention...
C'mon people, visit his page at least once. Dammit there should have been a link in the summary.

I spent a few minutes just seeing who had the best pixels and who paid the most. 100 bux seems a drop in the bucket for advertising.

http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/pixellist.php

http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com

Link to the page itself (gotta love the URl :-/) : http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

If you actually go to http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ you could think it was a porno or prescription drug site.

Here's a link to the guy's site. The AP article didn't list one. http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

Here's a link to the guy's site. The AP article didn't list one. http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

The Million Dollar homepage
oops forgot the obligatory WOOOT!!! FP

I'm not sure what bothers me more, the fact that this scheme is OBVIOUS and a bunch of bull-poop, or the fact that it's working....