Nisadas

Sometime back, I was in Habarana wondering how so many barber shops so close together could still stay in business. Apparently, they were just managing – but only just. According to an accounts guy from one of the “big” hotels in the area with whom I spoke, whenever someone starts something new in the area, everyone else who’s jobless follows suit. While that situ might’ve changed (haven’t been there in quite a while *sigh*) it seems that copying good ideas is a global thing.

From the 28th of August 2005, the Million Dollar Homepage has been selling pixel property for advertising – 01 US dollar for one pixel. With the subsequent publicity, he’s managed to sell 495,300 pixels at the time of writing. That’s $495,300 in less than two months!!

Let’s put that into perspective. Assuming around 100 SL rupees to the US Dollar, that’s 49,530,000 rupees. [feeling just a *little* green around the gills now].

I mean, how much easier can it get to earn money? This guy deserves all the credit and attention he’s getting for coming up with something so innovative.

Then there are the people who try to work on this idea. Alex has something to say about that on his blog.

Doing a search on google for the Million dollar homepage led me to the 50 million dollar website from a Google Ad. This guy’s giving out $1000 to the people who buy the most pixels on his site.

Hmmmm….