Alex Tew works on his next million

AlextewAlex Tew, the now-famous 21-year-old British college student, is nearing his goal of making a million dollars selling $1-per-pixel ad space on his Web site, The Million Dollar Homepage. With just 1,000 pixels to go, Alex is squeezing every penny out of his venture. Rather than a straight-up sale for $1,000, he’s auctioning the remaining space on eBay, surely expecting GoldenPalace.com to drive up the price. As of today, with five days left in the auction, bids had reached $152,300. We’re beginning to think Alex is a stone-cold genius. While a capitalist at heart, he is shutting the door on the reselling of ad space by current pixel owners: “While a ‘pixel after-market’ would be quite a cool concept, I am determined to maintain the idea of the homepage being an ‘Internet time capsule,’ ” he writes on his blog.

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Jobless Boy Launches A Website To Sell 10,000 Jeans On The Internet!

USA jobless boy has set his sights on earning himself a million dollars after thinking of a simple idea of selling brands new and used jeans on his homepage MoneyOrBox.com
He had been thinking of ideas on how to make a little extra money for himself but some of his ideas either never worked out or were just far too ambitious.
So far there are 28 jeans sold on the homepage which has netted him just $1300 but as visitors grow and more people hear about the site, no doubt more jeans will be added and he will progress towards his target of 10,000 jeans on his homepage and one million dollars in the bank.
You can view the website by visiting www.MoneyOrBox.com

Posted by: MoneyOrBox | Mar 11, 2006 9:52:25 AM

http://www.pixelword.com is the only site doing anything vaguely original in the pixel advertising market anymore.

Posted by: Micheal Worth | Apr 11, 2006 6:38:20 PM

Copycats, ripp-offs, thieves... come on and be creative yourself. Last good, fresh new idea is www.stopthesecond.com and another good one is startthesecond.com

Posted by: Alex | Apr 27, 2006 2:12:41 PM

A great idea....but there is no point in buying or selling pixels anymore as its been done period...

you need a completely original idea that nobody else has done, it needs to be cheap, fast and freindly.

There is talk about another guy from the UK who has set up a cool site called http://www.w2cu.com , it is for people who have already met but lost or did'nt get each others contact details.
its a good clever idea, no one else has done anything like it and its free!!! apparently he is going to make his fortune through localised advertising by placing banners on over 5000 local pages. If each page pays him £1 a month, thats £5000 a month. only wish i thought of it first!!!

Posted by: Russell Best | May 8, 2006 1:29:36 PM

What happens when you merge the milliondollarhomepage idea with sex (or is it art)? You get http://www.isellbody.com/

Posted by: WDD | Jun 24, 2006 2:36:57 PM

It seems there may be an evolution to Alex's wonderful idea. Want to buy a word anyone?

Posted by: Wayne | Jun 28, 2006 11:04:40 AM

Sorry I didn't put the link in the body of my last message, it was added to my name. Take a look at http://www.thousandwordhomepage.com

Posted by: Wayne | Jun 28, 2006 11:07:12 AM

I believe that Alex's site still generates some indirect value for advertisers at least by improving their visibility in search engines. It has a PageRank of 7 and many still continue to add links to it (by the way, this article has just added one link). So, getting the link from website with such a high PageRank for as low as 1$ it is clearly a reasonable investment. Good luck to all the copycats :) http://www.milliondollarhosting.net

Posted by: Michael Hosting | Jun 28, 2006 12:50:06 PM

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Posted by: ueiru dsfjkds | Aug 18, 2006 3:37:26 PM

Perhaps www.onemilliongongs.com has a similar concept, with a slight twist?

Posted by: Joe | Sep 6, 2006 8:24:23 PM

Wow! I have been website marketing for close to 10 years now, and have never seen such an original and effective concept! I may just have to interview Alex for my next release of Guerilla Website Marketing! http://www.GuerillaWebsiteMarketing.com

Posted by: Leigh Burke | Sep 22, 2006 10:27:35 PM

Here is the website that calculates pixels sold on Pixelotto.
http://www.pixelottoreport.com
Also there is Pixelotto Traffic tool that will help pixelotto adverts compare pixelotto traffic and make analysis on that.

Posted by: Alex Filatov | Jan 6, 2007 6:06:44 AM

this pixel site evolved in april 06 doing quite well as it happens!

Posted by: kwpp | Jan 21, 2007 4:26:48 PM

genius. absolute genius.
good luck for all future ventures.

Posted by: Diana | Mar 21, 2007 11:23:59 AM

Friday 13th April 2007! The Million Dollar Borrower is launched.
Hello everybody!
I've spent the last few hours building the site, registering the domain name and here is the result. Check out the ‘frequently asked questions’ for all the answers you'll ever need. Perhaps the idea isn't so crazy after all? Anyway, I'm gonna make some calls, send some emails and see if I can get some press interest!
I will say this: in my view, business success is based on unique good ideas. I thought this could be something crazy enough to work! Because I think people like crazy ideas. If this captures people's imaginations and people check out the site, then the idea will have value - and millionaires will help. That's the theory anyway. The way I see it: I've got nothing to lose by trying. And I'm sure it'll be very fun! Wish me luck and watch this space!
“Seeing the women walking, walking, walking really struck me. We would go for miles and miles and see these women walking, and we’d always look to see if any had shoes. They didn’t!” Melinda Gates talking about a wonderful safari to Africa (1993)
“We all now know that something radical has got to be done to turn back the tide of global warming. It is our hope and belief that the winner of The Virgin Earth Challenge will help to reverse the collision course our beautiful world is currently on.” Sir Richard Branson, 09.02.2007

Posted by: MillionDollarBorrower | Apr 12, 2007 12:46:00 PM

and yet here is another one. Can someone please check wake me up. This site is selling 10billion pixels, right now there is 8mil and is promising to grow.

Posted by: JR | Jan 23, 2008 6:34:49 AM

and yet here is another one. Can someone please check wake me up. This site is selling 10billion pixels, right now there is 8mil and is promising to grow. http://www.10billiondollarwebpage.com

Posted by: jr | Jan 23, 2008 6:36:43 AM

For Immediate Release

AdsByWorld is a first flash map based advertising website and the countries
are being sold on EBay auctions.

Each two weeks , all countries are placed in their own auction pages on
EBay and prospective owners bid to win their countries.
The logo , the advertisment message and the website link of winner will
be published on the World map on the website for two weeks until next auction
ends. After the new auction is ended , if someone paid more than the owner of
the country , owner will change. The top winner who makes the biggest payment of
the all auctions in a week will have got a bonus country. The top winner
can have got an unsold a country beside its own country.

AdsByWorld placed 51 countries for first auctions which got the largest
area on the world. AdsByWorld Officials say that they received a lot of
email in one day for placing other countries in EBay auctions. The idea
of AdsByWorld is growing website traffic and unique visitor counts for
websites of winners.

Are you an advertiser and do you want to put your advertisment on the map
of your country?

So visit http://www.adsbyworld.com and join the big race to build your
empire.

Posted by: ADSbyWORLD | Jun 13, 2008 8:41:26 PM

Whay pixels? Here is the fresh idea - www.buckcounter.com

Posted by: Zorro | Jun 20, 2008 1:39:33 PM

What do you think about this new idea? "Own a piece of the Internet for ever"
I'd like to hear from you.
By.
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