{"id":111,"date":"2005-09-27T23:22:07","date_gmt":"2005-09-28T07:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/?p=111"},"modified":"2005-09-28T23:28:59","modified_gmt":"2005-09-29T07:28:59","slug":"college-kid-invents-instant-profit-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/college-kid-invents-instant-profit-website\/","title":{"rendered":"College Kid Invents Instant Profit Website"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the why-didn’t-I-think-of this department is Alex Trew’s The Million Dollar Homepage ™<\/a>. He made a blank webpage that’s divided into small squares like graph paper. All of it is for rent for Internet advertising space. It’s an online billboard.<\/p>\n

Each 100-pixel parcel of his advertising landscape can be rented for $100. (I have read that it is “bought<\/a>,” so the special appeal of the site may be its permanance. (In web time, I believe “permanent” is until the middle of next month.)<\/p>\n

I just read the site’s own terms and conditions: he claims the pixel ads will be up a minimum of five years<\/a>. Hmm, no links to offensive sites, no moving gifs: his whole money-making plan is sounding better and better.<\/p>\n

The site ain’t pretty, but since its beginning on August 26th, it gets 50,000 unique visitors per day viewing the sometimes confettti-like banner bits. He claims his only advertising for the site itself has been emailing family and friends. <\/p>\n

His ads are selling fast: there are about 190,000 pixels sold already with about 810,000 more to sell. By the way, he really did get a trademark for his Million Dollar name.<\/p>\n

Maybe Nottingham University,where he is studying business management, should give him an honorary degree. He certainly seems to know an awful lot about conducting business on the internet already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the why-didn’t-I-think-of this department is Alex Trew’s The Million Dollar Homepage ™. He made a blank webpage that’s divided into small squares like graph paper. All of it is for rent for Internet advertising space. It’s an online billboard. Each 100-pixel parcel of his advertising landscape can be rented for $100. (I have read […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}