17Jul/060
Trading Up
Another genius idea. Last year, we saw 21 year old Alex Tew create the million dollar homepage.
To save up for college, Alex sold one million pixels of a web page ($1 ea.) in 100 pixel blocks to advertisers who wanted a piece of the inevitable publicity that would occur if Alex's page took off. And it did.
This week, Kyle MacDonald finished a year of trading old junk on his blog - http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com/
What started with one red paperclip eventually earned Kyle a house in Kipling Saskatchewan Canada.
It's unbelieveable how far an original idea can take you.