If necessity is the mother of internet inventions, who's the father? Revolutions on the internet rarely have anything to do with someone trying to make a fast buck out of somebody else's idea After the success of Alex Tew I got a lot of emails from people who, it so happened, had had exactly the same idea as him, only three months later. You're wondering: Alex Tew? Yes, you remember – the guy behind the Million Dollar Homepage. Ah, now you're remembering: back in January 2006 he became an overnight celebrity for his idea of selling each of a million pixels on a page for a dollar each. (Smart timing – the exchange rate has got a lot worse since then. Then it was the £568,000 homepage. Now it's worth about £44,000 less.) For months afterwards I was plagued with emails from people who wanted me to write about their idea, for a...
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