Advertising, does it work
The Million Dollar Homepage marked a return to quirky dot.com style ideas. However, this one has struck most of us as a ‘why did I not think of that’ type of idea. The guy running it is selling nothing more than pixels on his homepage. He has 1 million, and they are a dollar each. Well, we could not resist it and you will find raising the eight bar and this logo
(not pretty but we only had 10×10) on the million dollar homepage. Look down from the first i in million on the logo at the top, about 6 rows down, and there we are. Does this page work? Well I could not resist clicking on the “Even monkeys fall from trees” link and I made a purchase, but maybe it shows I am gullable. A pre-req for being an early adopter?
Ian Hughes (Consulting IT Specialist Emerging Technologies, IBM Hursley)

October 2nd, 2005 at 7:56 pm
Well, I just checked through the web server logs and it looks like about twenty people have clicked on the the logo ad.
May 30th, 2006 at 9:04 pm
[...] It doesn’t seem so long ago that the Million Dollar Homepage was taking off. Ian, while wondering whether gullibility was a pre-requisite for early adopter status, bought an ad for eightbar, which I notice still manages to bring us in over 30 clicks per month. While these are undeniably different projects, it’s hard not to compare them. [...]
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