Think & Play
Thoughtplay is the creative team behind various popular websites and other projects. At this blog we give away bright ideas regularly, and comment on interesting trends both online and off. The thought channel is for more business-related trends, play looks at entertainment and leisure, and thoughtplay introduces our own creative ideas, as well as news about our projects.
Million dollar thoughts - for free | 280807
Quelle surprise - there's another variant of Alex Tew's infamous Million Dollar Homepage: the Million Dollar Wiki (MDW). Spend $100 to 'bag' a page which you can fill with content of your choice, rather like Squidoo, which is largely regarded as a failure since it's been over-run with spam (though is at least free). MDW guarantees your page is yours (unless you sell it on) for 15 years. Some people claim to be making small amounts of money from MDW, such as John Chow. Step back, though, and of course the only people advertising, or certainly only thos emaking any money back, are people advertising services to... people considering advertising at MDW...
This is the circular world of these get-rich-quick schemes. Generation 1: launch a get-rich-quick product. You'll make more money than... Generation 2: launch a service helping others to make the most out of the product. Anyone else - ie the majority for fall for these things, is simply spending money.
MDW is well put-together and has clearly made its young creator some bucks - good for him. But why would anyone visit such as ste over the long term, and therefore guarantee its content providers sustained traffic or income?
Categories: thought
«-- back