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One million is a fairly large number. For example, if I had a million pennies, I'd be pretty pleased, if I had a million dimes I'd be ecstatic, and if I had a million twenties I'd be drunk. One million seems to be an almost mystical number in North American culture... You are a success when you become a millionaire, if you sell a million albums you have gone platinum.
If you can sell a million pixels at a dollar a piece, then you are my hero. Well, I can proudly present my hero in the making. About four months ago a lad by the name of Alex decided he needed money for University. He brainstormed for a while and came up with an idea, he would sell one million pixels of screen space. So he put up a web page that had a 1000 x 1000 area segmented into 10x10 blocks. He then began selling those tiny ten by ten blocks for one hundred dollars each.
If you had explained the idea to me four months ago, when the site first started, I would have called it crazy. But now, fours months later, Alex is $800,000 richer, and well on his way to making that million. If you want, have a peek at the page for yourself, it's a crazy jumble of tiny ads with a few bigger ones scattered around it, but the Million Dollar Home Page is truly a sight to behold.
Now, another "Millions" site that I have fallen in love with lately is MillionsOfGames.com. A clever little site that lets you "MOG" games you find on the web, allowing other people to view and play these games. The great part is that the games are all just linked, so the original creator just gets more traffic to their site out of it. MOG gets traffic as well, which helps their advertising revenue. Although so far MOG only has about three thousand games, it is growing every day, with no signs of slowing down.
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