Alex Tue is back

Pixelotto

...if anyone remembers the original 'million dollar homepage' which Alex Tue ran in 2005 in order to not come out of uni in debt, they might be interested in his next project. His plan worked so well that his pixel site ended up making him the million dollars that he set out to make and didn't bother going to uni at all!

His latest project, Pixelotto is a bit underwhelming because it's based on pixels again; I was hoping he'd do something completely different, but anyway it looks like it's starting to work.

The concept is very similar to MDP in that advertisers pay for pixels ($2 per pixel / a million are available) and upload a logo and a link to their website. The page ends up as a wall of coloured logos and links. The difference is that non-advertisers, can register and click on up to 10 links per day. At the end of 12 months half of all money raised will be paid out to one lucky winner and a further $100,000 will go to a charity of the winning clicker's choice.

Alex's motto is simple. It's all about being first to market with a unique idea. Brilliant, why didn't we think of that.