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Feb282008
The Next Big Thing.....
Thursday, February 28, 2008 at 11:07PM
Remember the Million Dollar Homepage?
A very simple idea where an enterprising 21 year old entrepreneur sold 1 million pixels of ad space on a single page for $1 per pixel.
What a brilliant idea!
The whole thing went viral and the guy made a fortune.
Well I wonder if this is the next big thing?
Two enterprising Masters Students from Northern Ireland (Paddy and Lee) have launched a site called "The Big Word Project" and it's another simple yet brilliant idea.
Basically, you can buy any word in the Oxford English Dictionary for $1 per letter. Once you've bought it, you can link the word from The Big Word project site to your own site.
And that's it!
Absolutely bloody brilliant.
I don't think it's any co-incidence that one of the guys is researching into Viral Marketing for his masters.
It's only been up for a couple of days but a link from Gruber has brought them loads of traffic and at the time of writing, 1419 words have been purchased. Let's say an average of 6 letters per word, that's 6 * 1419 = $8514 in just 2 days. There are over 500,000 words in the OED
Some big names have bought up some words such as:
OK - I inserted that last one myself but hey, I bought the word (and a few others - see if you can guess)
My only regret about the whole thing is that I didn't think of it myself!
Good luck guys, this could make you some serious money!
A very simple idea where an enterprising 21 year old entrepreneur sold 1 million pixels of ad space on a single page for $1 per pixel.
What a brilliant idea!
The whole thing went viral and the guy made a fortune.
Well I wonder if this is the next big thing?
Two enterprising Masters Students from Northern Ireland (Paddy and Lee) have launched a site called "The Big Word Project" and it's another simple yet brilliant idea.
Basically, you can buy any word in the Oxford English Dictionary for $1 per letter. Once you've bought it, you can link the word from The Big Word project site to your own site.
And that's it!
Absolutely bloody brilliant.
I don't think it's any co-incidence that one of the guys is researching into Viral Marketing for his masters.
It's only been up for a couple of days but a link from Gruber has brought them loads of traffic and at the time of writing, 1419 words have been purchased. Let's say an average of 6 letters per word, that's 6 * 1419 = $8514 in just 2 days. There are over 500,000 words in the OED
Some big names have bought up some words such as:
- 37 Signals - Signal
- Mint - Mint
- Icon Factory - Icon
- Daring Fireball - Jiminy
- Lego - Brick
- MGM - Movie
- ScreenCastsOnline - Screencast
OK - I inserted that last one myself but hey, I bought the word (and a few others - see if you can guess)
My only regret about the whole thing is that I didn't think of it myself!
Good luck guys, this could make you some serious money!
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