In August 2005, Alex Tew, the milliondollarhomepage.com to be published to fund studies. His concept was quite simple, he sold individual pixels of a 1000x1000 Pixel Canvas ", each $ 1 in companies that wanted to advertise it.
(beginnings of the project)
When the last pixel was sold, retired Alex, to devote himself to his studies. In the meantime, developed-to-day about 200 copies of this idea, but could not convince.
After the first semester, he completed his studies in order to devote themselves to a new project can. Pixel Lotto hies and it was similar to the million dollar homepage set up, where you had to pay this time 2 dollar per pixel.
Alex said the system in an interview at the SZ following 2 years ago:
"[...] Every visitor of pixel Otto [can] click only ten times a day, but those clicks are entries in a large price puzzle. If all pixels have been sold, that is drawn by advertising, and all those who have clicked on the advertisement to take part in a big raffle -. to just one million U.S. dollars also gets the winner of $ 100,000, it attaches to a charity of his choice can donate. The rest of the two million retains Alex. "
from his desired $ 900,000 profit, however, was nothing and he finished the project after a single round on 28/01/2008. Alex currently lives in London and still sells posters of his Internet art, as he calls it.
Now a look at his time before the breakthrough: In 2002 he opened namely an Internet portal for beatboxer , now this site has more than 11,000 members.
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