I was doing my daily blog read yesterday and came across an interesting post on TechCrunch. The website is called 1000tags.com and it is an interesting varation on the Million Dollar homepage. For those of you who don't follow this thing, the million dollar homepage was a website that sold a pixel of advertising space for $1.00, with 1M pixels on the screen.
1000tags is a different approach. It is based on the idea of tagging that is all the latest rage on the web today and with web2.0 companies. Companies sign up for either shared or exclusive tags and pay a flat rate to be included. When I was on the site yesterday there were 5 tags...today here is a screenshot (I count at least 100):
This is like Google allowing people to search AdWords keywords, but putting them all on one page. Half the time I have to look at the sponsored links anyways to get through the clutter of spam websites when I search for something like "search engine optimization." Why not just allow me to find those companies that are willing to pay for me right away? It's also an interesting social/advertising experiment. Speaking of experiments, I purchased one of the tags (not my own name) on 1000tags.com. Can you guess which one?
To my faithful readers I ask you: stupid or brilliant? Comment away.
We have come up with a simpler version:
The Web2.0 Million Dollar Homepage.
Web2.0, in Web1.0 Style !
We envisage a page where each click will open a pleasant Web2.0 Surprise. Buy Your Piece of Web2.0 History!!
Posted by: Srinivasan | February 02, 2006 at 07:52 PM
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Posted by: John Flinn | January 13, 2006 at 11:53 AM