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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."
Are you guys still drunk from Christmas, or did you get a gift certificate for advanced brain damage? Hell, until today, I had at least a little bit of remaining faith in earth's population, but now I think it definitely all went down the toilet. 4000 years of advanced civilization, and all we do is voluntarily look at ads. I say goodbye to our future.
Windows is like decaf - it tastes like the real thing, but it won't get you through the day.
No, even 15 people on a bus is far more efficient than 15 people driving 15 cars in terms of space and fuel economy.
In this world nothing is certain but death, taxes and flawed car analogies.
In Da USA not everyone lives in cities, or within 20 miles of one.
Right now I live 100 miles from a city over 30,000. The closest Metro is 500. I need a car for work. I need a car because population density in my location means that on average I live a decent distance from either my work or stores. If I want a good electronics store, I have to drive 100 miles on back roads.
It's not always an issue of mass transit. Sometimes it's because I choose to be a farmer. Or I choose to be a gravity researcher and live at Ligo. Or google moved to a small town. Or I don't want to live in a rat box metro.
I'd say more, but my guild is raiding.
That's a very authoritative-sounding declaration, and a very specific number, still warm from the aromatic sphincter whence it was plucked. However, you don't even seem to know what light rail is.
Hint: It ain't what they're running on the DC subway tracks.
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." -- GBS
Like Linux?
You only get the press if you're original...ie. the guy who started this. You won't get it if you're just a clone.
Yup. Micro$oft can attest to that!