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Cash Pours in for Student with $1 Million Web Idea

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pet-rocks dept.

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."

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  1. It makes me angry... by Kickboy12 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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

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    1. Re:It makes me angry... by rjshields · · Score: 4, Funny
      - 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!
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  2. I am selling space in my sig by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  3. In a totally unreleted news by Vivek+Jishtu · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  4. Like PT Barnum said... by Stickerboy · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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

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  5. new server by pvt_medic · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  6. Holy old news. by User+956 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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    1. Re:Holy old news. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      an editorial about this new phenomenon called "blogging"?

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

  7. Re:Just goes to show... by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  8. Re:rest of the article by glomph · · Score: 5, Funny
    I own an acre on the moon.

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

  9. Goatse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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