A British college student is raising money for tuition in a unique way. He's selling advertising space one pixel at a time. Every pixel on MillionDollarHomepage.com is sold for $1. Groups of pixels can be bought to create larger ad spaces. You can check out the full story in this Register article.
Link via MIT Advertising Lab.
There are some other wankers in the mix:
(U.S.) http://www.milliondollarwebpage.com
(Europe) http://www.millionuerohomepage.com
Seems there is just about one per continent. Root for your locale today. Yeah, right!
Posted by: Lisa Bellarmine | September 12, 2005 at 05:05 PM
Also check out the Million Penny Homepage at http://www.MillionPennyHomepage.com
Posted by: James | September 13, 2005 at 05:53 PM
Or the original SANDY's website http://www.themilliondollarweb.com
Who was the first one ?
Posted by: John | September 16, 2005 at 12:14 PM
Free pixels here:
http://www.zerodollarhomepage.com
Posted by: Eivind | September 20, 2005 at 03:58 AM
Next in Line: http://www.pixelmillion.com
Posted by: Mike | September 21, 2005 at 02:50 PM
Great Scam. How about the billionEuroScam. It has a ring to it :-)
Posted by: www.meomo.com | September 23, 2005 at 10:45 AM
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$1.00 15 x 15 Circle U Can Add Animated Or Static Images
Posted by: like5 | September 29, 2005 at 01:35 AM
2 links for the price of one, and anchor text, all in the name of progress :-)
http://www.amillionquid.com
Posted by: james | October 01, 2005 at 12:05 PM
I found this one.
It's something new to me because this guy is giving avaw part of his money to his advertisers. It's something that I haven't seen on other buy pixels sites.
http://www.3xarchive.com
Posted by: Monica | October 24, 2005 at 11:44 PM
See the longest web page adventure: http://www.thelongestwebpage.com
Posted by: joluis | January 08, 2006 at 06:53 PM