A search on Google for pixel sites gives 22,7000 results. 1 per pixel of advertising and the page was divided into 1,000,000 pixels. The advertising sold out and the guy made a cool million dollars! 400. At this stage the site was getting around 100 hits a day so he started to contact the press. An IT news site picked it up and ran an article resulting in 2000 hits an hour, it got ranked by Google and the hits went up to 35,000 a day. And as the ball started rolling the visitors to the site increased, more pixels were sold, the guy made more money and the press interest increased. The site was getting over 100,000 unique visitors in 2 days and the UK nationals ran stories on the site. The site was getting hundreds of thousands of unique visitors and advertisers were seeing a good click through rate for their adverts.
Further TV interviews and radio interviews followed, Reuters ran an article on the site, as did the Wall Street Journal. With the last few remaining pixels auctioned on eBay the guy made is million dollars on 11th January 2006 - less of course any costs he incurred. And then of course, the site was hacked and money demanded (which the FBI are currently investigating) but even this led to more media interest. By the end of October 2005 hundreds of copy cat sites had started to spring up. Now there are thousands of them if not more. Have you visited any of these - most have no adverts on them, no traffic and no one in their right mind would choose to advertise on them. This guy had an unprecedented level of media attention, driving thousands and thousands of visitors to the site. Even the guy behind the Million Dollar Home Page pixel site acknowledges that it is not a lasting business idea but a novel one off idea. There is no long term business concept and it will only work once. How long it will take those jumping on the pixel bandwagon to realise this - who knows!
I would in a heartbeat. In 1996 I bought a badly neglected 1980 VW Sirocco with 198,000 miles on it. I only replaced two things, the timing belt and the passenger side C.V. Drove it from Chicago to L.A. Virgina Beach V.A. and back home to Chicago all the while that 16 year old, severely beaten VW carried me through 4 mountain ranges, across the plains states at 90mph for 48 stopping only for fuel, snacks and restroom breaks. So yeah, if the timing belt and CV shafts are good (really just the passenger side) then go for it! 100,000 miles on a VW is just broken-in. They are expensive to get worked on, and that is usually infrequent but good information to know. Anytime you think about getting into a foreign vehicle, you also have to consider how much will it cost to make repairs. VW Beetles are no exception to this rule, and you will find that VW's are very expensive to work on. It's not so much the parts themselves that are expensive, it's the maintenance costs from your local shops.
But the Bolt’s charging light indicator stayed yellow. You gotta be kidding me, I thought to myself. I restarted the session a couple of times, but still no go. I then tried the other station, and luckily I got it to start charging. The GOM stated 37 miles of range when it started charging. A working Blink station! After chowing down on some Shake Shack and getting the aforementioned Lego sets, we came back to the Bolt 2 hours later. It turned out my Bolt had ingested 10.88 kWh of juice, and the GOM stated I had 79 miles of range. I also found a Volt owner putting some shopping bags in his Volt, and chatted with him a bit as he asked me how I liked the Bolt. I told him I loved my Bolt, and that the only potential issue would be charging while road tripping, though I didn't let him in on my self-inflicted problems.
