Million Dollar Plus Brainwave

For those of you who read the blog last year, you may remember that in October, we mentioned the Million Dollar Homepage, brainchild of 21 year old student Alex Tew (see 'What are you looking at?', October 2005)

The concept behind Million Dollar Homepage is selling pixels on a webpage, as advertising space, at a dollar per pixel. The minimum purchase is $100 for a 10x10 pixel square.
At that time, Alex was roughly at the halfway mark, having sold about $500,000 worth of pixels on his site.

Now however, he's very, very close to reaching his target. His last 1,000 pixels will be auctioned off today on eBay. Bidding is at $140,000 already, so all in all, Alex stands to make much more than his aimed $1,000,000.

Apparently Alex is already working on ideas for what to do after this. I don't know about you, but I'm going to keep a close eye on this guy. He seems to have a talent for spotting what people are going to want next.