British student Alex Tew divided a Web page into 10,000 squares of 100 pixels each and started selling space at $1 per pixel -- an idea I blogged here on September 12. And according to a long story in The Wall Street Journal, How Selling Pixels May Yield a Million Bucks, it's been a big success:
Currently, the site gets 600,000 to 700,000 unique visitors a month. As of yesterday evening, Mr. Tew said he was $623,800 toward his goal, more than enough to pay for college and earmark some cash for his next entrepreneurial venture.
Of course, if Tew had got $1 from everyone who said "Damn, why didn't I think of that?" he might already be a billionaire.
