Thread: Weird Poms!!!!!

Obviously watched Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

I wonder if she will give birth to a tribe of sardines!!

"Blessed are the cracked for they let the light in"

It seems they atleast have some smart ones over there too...

International News

Pixel sales generate student millions
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Pixel sales generate student millions
7:39 AM December 30

A British student has earned a cool million dollars in four months by selling pixels on the Internet.

Alex Tew, a 21-year-old student from a small town in England, came up with the idea for www.milliondollarhomepage.com, while thinking of ways to pay for university.

The idea: turn his home page into a billboard made up of a million dots, and sell them for a dollar a dot to anyone who wants to put up their logo.

A 10-by-10 dot square, roughly the size of a letter of type, costs $A136.

He sold a few to his brothers and some friends, and when he had made $A1,365, he issued a press release.

That was picked up by the news media, spread around the Internet, and soon advertisers for everything from dating sites to casinos to real estate agents to The Times of London were putting up real cash for pixels, with links to their own sites.

So far they have bought up 911,800 pixels.

Mr Tew's home page now looks like an online Times Square, festooned with a multi-coloured confetti of ads.

"All the money's kind of sitting in a bank account," Mr Tew said.

"I've treated myself to a car. I've only just passed my driving test so I've bought myself a little black Mini."

The site features testimonials from advertisers, some of whom bought spots as a lark only to discover that they were receiving actual valuable web hits for a fraction of the cost of traditional Internet advertising.

Business studies

Mr Tew has had to juggle running the site with his first term at university, where he is studying business.

"It's been quite a difficulty trying to balance going to lectures and doing the site," he said.

But he may not have to study for long.

Job offers have been coming in from Internet companies impressed by a young man who managed to figure out an original way to make money online.

"I didn't expect it to happen like that," Mr Tew said.

"To have the job offers and approaches from investors - the whole thing is kind of surreal. I'm still in a state of disbelief."

- Reuters

Source: Reuters

Cool idea!

Originally Posted by Auld Bassoon

Cool idea!

Marrying the Dolphin?? See what we can find for you Steve

Has anyone else noticed that it's Stoppers that seems to find these sorts of stories? Hmm? Are the rumours about that dolphin with the silly grin around Beachport true? :eek:

Richard

We need to protect and nurture our eccentrics. In an increasingly grey world, without these magical weirdo's, what would we have to talk about?

Don't know about dating Dolphins tho, although I did briefly know a very pretty Heifer, then there's Bruce and his ewe.