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Seriously?
"The Next Million Dollar Homepage" is probably the absolute lowest bar we can possibly set as a technology community.
Happy to be the the dissenting, vocal opinion on this one. (Unless the entire map is covered in charities, who are receiving all of the proceeds.)
Quite interesting, i like it. I remember the pixel pages that someone started and you could buy ad space per pixel and it was huge because it hadn't been done before and there was a frenzy of attention but why would anyone come to this site and use it? I'm just interested. It's cool and all and its a cool use of a map but why? Is there a bigger picture i'm not seeing yet? Anyways, i do love it...i've always been a fan of map and my site, DiscoveringCoffee.com is based on another map, MapMe so i enjoy this visual display of information.
@themelamini Hi Melanie, it is a valid question, thanks:) The original website was definitely new and creative, that made the media jump on it and created the market value for the website itself. This is something we are trying to re-create and also tried to add some extra for the Visitors (besides satisfying your curiosity to see who conquered bigger landmarks;).
The first $10,000 we make from selling territories on Million Dollar Map will be given back to Visitors, you can enter 2 contests for free (=no purchase required). See them here:
#Referral Contest: http://milliondollarmap.com/invite
#Deserted5 Contest: http://milliondollarmap.com/win
Great idea - we were just talking about this in MakerHunt the other day and I joked about my idea for a million dollar Kickstarter, which would follow the same premise. This works way better :D
You know better than I, but I think would be better for you if you change the opacity or put a color layer, something like that, to show which are reserved and which are already bought. It's very subtle to know which was really bought, like the replies here show.
@fepacheco Thanks Felipe, we'll probably implement a "marker selector". If you switch to BUY mode (http://milliondollarmap.com/buy), the markers are showing "Free" and "Reserved" territories, this is something you will be able to customize as you wish.
Haha - I just reserved Greenland (tunu ammassalik) - really neat idea @dfberi!
Was wondering when the next Million Dollar Hompage was going to come along, seems like this is it.
Everyone will be left wondering again - why didn't I do that...best of luck.
@alangarrec Thanks Alan, we'll be uploaded by tomorrow ;)
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@MnDollarMap just so you know, I had a little bug while reserving france-auvergne. I got it, but when I was on the reservation screen, I clicked on the color button and picked #F2F4F6 with the color picker. The button color changed as expected, BUT the color didn't filled the background of the region area. The result is that I don't have a background color on my region.
Apparently, I can 'conquer' Raqqa, Syria. Awkward.
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In all seriousness, there's a whole layer of political and cultural complexities involved in applying the Million Dollar Pixel concept to a real world map.
@joostschuur Thanks Joost for raising this issue. We will do everything to keep things clean and peaceful on Million Dollar Map. 'Conquering' a territory implies no more basically than advertising a valid service/product on the surface of that territory. Prior to appearing on the map, we will review the requests, so no harmful content can go live. Should we make a mistake we encourage anyone to report it at support@milliondollarmap.com, and we will delete the advertising in question.
Please have a look at our 'Keep it Clean' policy on our site (you'll have to scroll down a bit): http://milliondollarmap.com/buy
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@joostschuur The internet is certainty not a "safe space".
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