Mark Forrester - Independent digital designer and online entrepreneur

I have been using Google site anaytics on my blog for the past couple of months. Gives me great data, but understanding some of that data is an absolute mission. So I went searching for something a little more simplisitic, something us web designers can actually read. This is what I found. Haven’t actually installed it yet, as I am still waiting for my invitation email from the site, but the reviews are good and the interface looks far more … my cup of tea.

Get an invite from Measuremap here.

The Million Dollar Homepage was created by a 21 year old middle-class undergraduate living in a messy student digs and who drinks a lot of coke (don’t know why you need to know the coke fact, but that is taken from the news article where I found this website link, http://www.timesonline.co.uk).

All the website is, is a homepage with loads and loads of mini advertisements on it that takes a long time to load. But, the guy is making thousands of dollars off it everyday! He charges $1 per pixel and there are 1000 000 pixels on the page to buy. Quite a crafty idea, got to give him that! He has now sold 999 000 pixels, and is not satisfied with the 1000 last pixels going for $1000, so is auctioning them off on ebay!! The nerve!! The current bidding price for those last 1000 pixels is around $160 000.

Visit the site and wait an eternity for it to load.

www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

P.S. I have just been to his blog, which is linked to the home page. It is INSANE how quickly and easily this guy has made his money. Definitely worth reading.

There is so much news on the newest projects at Google that most people forget about its big competitor Yahoo. After reading an article on www.seochat.com its clear to see that they are going to fight Google for the top spot. Yahoo have launched a website, or should I say opened a web area, where you can view all the exciting projects on the go at Yahoo, next.yahoo.com/. Yahoo describes it as ““a showcase of some of Yahoo!’s newest and coolest projects – the cutting edge of what Yahoo!’s doing today and working on for tomorrow!”.

Check it out. If you into this sort of thing :)

I am going to be off, on Boxing Day, for a 10 day roadtrip to Nelspruit, the Kruger and Kwazulu Natal. I’d love to be more specific where I am going, but thats all I know so far. Its going to be a very spontaneous holiday. The way I like to do my holidays. Anyways, never driven up there before so thought a map would be required. Found a website that plans your whole route, gives you an estimated time for your drive, a step-by-step route indicator (including all the little roads) and shows a pretty little map of how to get there. Very cool website!

SHELL GEOSTAR Go well, go Shell!