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- zerodotcom, on 10/12/2007, -3/+118I'm tired of this guy.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+71I agree, now the ***** is just getting greedy
- Roger, on 10/12/2007, -5/+53Lucky bastard.
- yoda133113, on 10/12/2007, -4/+46News flash, he did it for the money, he came up with an idea to make money, and made it. That's not greed, that's intelligence (and if your definition of greed is using your ideas to make large sums of money, then call me greedy and I'll take it as a compliment). On a second note, this is SOOO not gonna work (unless the $1000 thing takes off), there are too many imitators his idea isn't original anymore.
- interval, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28"Only in America...."
He's in the UK, dumbass. - OrangeTide, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24I should make a page where there are a million pixels and each one costs $1000. A billion dollar homepage is way more impressive than a million dollar one.
- compu73rg33k, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23"He wasn't greedy when he made 1 million?"
No because it was a good idea and the idea came from his need to pay for college. He obviously has his college paid for now, and he's doing this just to get rich now... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22He's even more lucky if the winner of the lotto is a digg user.... from the article it says the winner gets $1,000,000 by clicking the right ad, but in the digg description, it says only $1,000 lol.
I can imagine a digger winning this and e-mailing him saying "GIVE ME MY THOUSAND NOW BITCH!" - manatee, on 10/12/2007, -5/+23http://www.PixleLotto.com - typo domain lol
- f00xx0riz3r, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18You're all just jealous and somewhat stupid. What does the guy have to lose? He already has his million. Devtime for a site like this is minimal and he can only win-win-win.
Good luck to him, he's one of the persons I truely admire for his positive, creative and entreprenour (sp?) sides. - oOLiquidNightOo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17he needs a publicity photo. the picture of him with his hands folded across his chest just makes me want to punch him ..
- mycatsboots, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16Sharks with laser beams, pew pew?
- adikt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13careful with the use of "our", pal.
- headzoo, on 10/12/2007, -8/+21It's just hi-larious that everyone is calling the guy greedy. Fine. Lets shut down every business in America (well, the whole damn world even). Apparently having an idea and using that idea to make money is now greedy, and wrong.
While we're at it, lets remove the TVs from our homes, or gaming consoles, our computers, etc, because those were put on the market so people could make money. Hell, just about every advancement in modern society has been spurred by money, and making more of it.
All those people who invented those products were just greedy, so we should stop using them. No? I didn't think so.
Can anyone say "jealous". - Jofaba, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Well you can't blame him for trying. It's not an entirely bad idea, and the lottery aspect is sure to help make up for the fact that this isn't "new" or "fresh" anymore. It just might work. Good luck to him.
- OverloadUT, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Before anyone else gets confused as I did: This link is not the one to the site this article is about - it's a "typo domain" meaning it's a domain that is very similar, hoping that people will accidentally go to this site instead of the real one.
The site this article is about is:
http://www.pixelotto.com
Which currently just says "soon" - ipearx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Depressing:
http://www.alexaholic.com/bla.st+pixelotto.com
:) - senfo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Umm...I think you're the one that's confused.
- brutimus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Ya...because you clicked the TYPO address someone posted. That's not the one the article is referring to.
- emailingRob, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11I'm so insanely jealous of this guy. However, as it says in the article, I don't think lightening will strike twice. Time for a new idea, Tew.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10dnthomps...don't be too sure. Most of hte advertisers from the first one did it for the OUTSIDE publicity that came from all his interviews, etc. due to the fact that his site is a novelty. All that is NOT going to happen again, and hence, they are simply paying $2 a pixel to be put on a page with dozens of other ads. A terrible investment without all the talk shows and mainstream media coverage.
- wheel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8'Entrepreneur' is how it's spelled. :)
- HMTKSteve, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10So, should this be buried as a dupe of http://www.digg.com/offbeat_news/First_Spin_off_of_Million_Dollar_Homepage_2_Pixel_Lotto
or should it be buried as blog spam? - strictnein, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Ok, there was basically the exact same thing 8 years ago, except instead of them selling pixels that you clicked on, you just clicked on a tree. The money tree or something like that.
- strictnein, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6That lottery aspect was around 8 years ago, so nothing is new or fresh about this.
- leahculver, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Perhaps some people need to stay within their 15 minutes. This is just sad.
- vbsurfer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6This is him beatboxing (The one on the left)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W26DYxn-_6c
Pretty incredible - IMustBeEmo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4What a dick.
- HP844182, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I hope he chokes.
- Botond, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"plus hold some kind of lottery where the winner who clicks the right advertisement will win $1 million."
The lotto aspect is for 1 MILLION DOLLARS not 1,000. This makes it much more interesting. Genious. - lustre, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Unearned? The idea and follow through was a clever and utterly valid earning.
- JavertHolmes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Ok, there was basically the exact same thing 8 years ago, except instead of them selling pixels that you clicked on, you just clicked on a tree. The money tree or something like that."
Yeah, it was the Money Tree and they were one of the first sites I know of to have annoying flash game ads like "Punch the monkey three times and win!" or "Hit the puck into the net and win!"
From what I could find out about the site, the chances of winning a large money prize were very small, as once you found a high prize winning pixel in the tree, you had to click one or two more in sequence, making the odds astronomically low of winning anything big. On top of that, the high prize pixel positions would change often. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This won't be nearly as successful as the first one. The first had mainstream press. This one won't. That makes this site just like all the other sites that have nothing but ads on it (I wonder if Google will not allow it to be indexed like they do with the ad sites)
And advertisers will NOT be falling for the promises of click throughs from people just hoping to win the "lottery" by clicking in the right spot. All those cliks will bgenerate almost ZERO revenue for the advertisers.
I predict this site will have the same amount of success that all the other copycat sites had. Because make no mistake about it, this is a copycat site. He is copying off himself. - chesterjosiah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Should've used Firefox 2.0. Built in spellchecka.exe!
- verifex, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7@headzoo
All of what you said may be true if you applied it to a respectable business that provided a worthwhile service. As it is, the million dollar home page thing was a one-hit-wonder. It had it's curiosity and now that is done. The site serves no other purpose then to display ads to us. The fact that it is not providing any service other then to "show us ads in a weird way" is pretty damn lame. Especially when the original purpose has been lost. The guy obviously does not need our charity, so how about we just let his lame money grab die. If he makes a worthwhile service that is obviously deserving of the money, then go him!
But otherwise he is riding on the curiosity and charity of others and providing no real service or goods to anyone. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Anyone else here ready to make a bot that'll click all the ads?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"All those people who invented those products were just greedy, so we should stop using them. No? I didn't think so.
Can anyone say "jealous"."
Im very ***** jealous, Im not gonna deny it, what makes me jealous is that this asshat had no real product and he made a million dollars out of it, so i think im gonna continue to call this guy greedy cause suddenly he got another boner and decided he is gonna try it again. If he makes another 2 million, my best wishes to him but im sure am not gonna be one of these people who thinks a pixel is worth a dollar or two or whatever he is selling for them now - anagoge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I loved that idea. I never won though, ever, which pissed me off.
- manatee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm not sure what the laws are in the UK, but my guess is the way he gets away with this is that the advertisers can't win the $1,000,000 prize - only people who register for free can win (open dec 5th)... I have a funny feeling that someone might try to shut him down for trying to run his own lotto...but perhaps he's already figured out the legal loopholes. Anyone have some thoughts on this?
- NikZ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2dude... ya got something on your chin...
- goodluck4287, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Viral marketing attempt. This is by the site designer. He acts dumb about it so you think he is a user and not the designer. "Some kind of..."
- HaltingPoint, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2>>broomett
Perhaps the most insightful comment I've seen on here about this yet. I'm an advertising executive and I have to wholeheartedly agree with you. The PR value of the people who hopped on the bandwagon was WAY more valuable than the little amount people spent on their actual ad.
I'd be REALLY curious to see what their ad performance was as well. As an advertiser, I would have serious doubts about the quality of traffic on this new system as it merely encourages people to click the links in a random fashion in hopes of winning. It does not encourage them to find a site they are looking for information on or encourage them to request more information about the advertising site or buy a product. Yeah, you might get a large number of eyeballs, but what do you want to bet their average viewing time of your site will be all of 5 seconds? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"There's a sucker born every minute."
"A sucker and his money are soon departed."
Grats to him for milking a bunch of idiots out of their money. - itisme, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@headzoo "just about every advancement in modern society has been spurred by money"
So was newton's or einstien's work spurred by money?
lucky they didn't take the same approach to patents and copyright of ideas that the supposed ideal we live in today does eh? - Gullop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Not exactly original :/.
- rheaume, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Followup headline "Million Dollar Homepage Becomes Multi-Million Dollar Failure"
Hopefully - donbowmanca, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Last time he tried this the site went down right away due to a DDoS attack and subsequent extortion. I wonder what he is in for this time?
http://www.sandvine.com/general/getfile.asp?FILEID=87 has details on how this happened last time, as reported by the BBC, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4621158.stm
Also, there were a ton of 'me too' sites, why do we think the novelty comes back after a year? - jdonner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Lucky the first time and stupid the second time.
- FushBuck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The whole point of spending money on advertising is either 1)brand recognition or 2)to convince people to buy your product or service. Because you must visit his site in order to be influenced by the ads, and because his site has no actual content besides ads which will draw viewers, whoever would give this guy money is a fool.
Am jealous he made honest money from suckers, though.
The only way to make this premise worthless is for more people to start sites like this. The first few who do will make some money... - terminality, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Or, in my case, both.
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