21 Jan 2006

A Million Dollar Idea

How to you earn a million dollars quickly? You don't have to be the winner of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire", "Survivor" or "The Amazing Race". All you need is a "sit-down-shake-leg-earn-money" formula.

Last year, a 21-year old came up with a brillant idea to fund his university education: To sell one million pixels of his homepage for US$1 each. Hence, 'The Million Dollar Homepage'. You can purchase a block of space to put an ad linking to the your website. Once bought, the space is yours guaranteed for at least 5 years, or maybe forever. If you think about it, this is actually cheaper than putting ads on Google!

His website has been very well-received since its launch on 26 Aug. Recently, the last 1000 block of space has been auctioned off at a mind-boggling price of US$38100 at eBay! Congrats to Alex Tew for becoming more than a millionaire in just 4.5 months! I wish him the best in his degree programme.

1 comment:

MoleWall said...

This just shows you don't need to work hard to become rich, just work smart!