In the end of summer Alex Tew, one of the British students, has submitted wonderful idea – to sell a place on his page for one million dollars (you can look page here). The idea is very simple: it has drawn a grid 100×100 squares, each of which has the size of 100 pixels (10×10). To any interested person it suggested to buy each square for $100 (i.e. on $1 for each pixel). It would seem – what interesting in this idea? It was surprisingly when the idea has earned, and now Alex sells the remaining 1000 pixels (a rectangular area 5×2 squares) on eBay auction.
Alex’s success has caused an avalanche of clones of his idea, there were whole catalogues of similar sites, various visits trackers and rating systems was created. Time has shown, that initial idea was more ingenious, than it is looks for itself,- but its clones… are looks like pity attempt to pick up crumbs from a pie which is bitten by the British student. Few days ago Phillip Lenssen has published article under the name Formula for Creating Unsuccessful Million Dollar Homepage Spin Offs, which very well characterizes a current perspective of million pixel sites.
Все новое и оригинальное собирает плоды, а толпа, которая впоследствии копирует идею, как правило, ничего не получает.