Introducing Celebrity Pixels

August 12, 2006

I have always been one of those thinking, "Now why didn't I think of that" every time something cool happens on the Internet. And this happened again when I heard about Alex Tew's "Million Dollar Homepage" money making idea last year.

Tew was a 21-year-old student from small-town Wiltshire, England, and has turned his initial $100 investment into more than a million in profit after selling all his available space in only 5 months.

Tew described his pixel page as "a big collage of different colored ads." It looks like a bulletin board on designer steroids, an advertising train wreck you can't not look at."

They say, "Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery" and today there is a pixel rage embracing some web masters with more than a 1,000 copycat pixel pages running. Although these are no where as successful as the original.

Will pixel pages become a part of the Internet future, such as banner ads, or will they die out as the novelty wears off. We don't really know, but are adding our own "million dollar home page"... but with our own unique twist.