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Million Dollar Ads Concept

June 30, 2006 at 6:17 am · Filed under Advertising

The creator of www.milliondollarhomepage.com has taken his website ideas to a new level, establishing this building based on the original concept.

The website features just ads, ads & more ads and has earned the creator more than a million US$ in advertising cash. So now he owns this building as well, and we’re sure if the website made money, that this baby is a proper cash cow. It might not look so great, but those green paper thingies that you buy stuff with, certainly does!

It also seems from this image that a bunch of the big names (Google, McD’s, Nike & even Playboy) is already supporting this concept. It’s only a matter of time, before everyone else is doing it as well.

SPACE

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So Google didn’t buy MySpace…

June 29, 2006 at 6:17 am · Filed under The Web & Blogs

But who really cares? I might be biased just because I think MySpace is a badly designed piece of crap (I will however say “big up” to the founders, because they’ve earned their bread money) and I don’t think that Google would’ve made much difference to that.

The only way Google could’ve “rescued” MySpace, was to overhaul and redo the whole thing, but the geeks at Google decided to rather build their MySpace, which should always be better…Apparently Rupert Murdoch, owner of News Corp who purchased MySpace for approx $600 million, said that Google could’ve bought MySpace before them for half the price News Corp paid. This is obviously all just hearsay and internet rumours.

Apparently News Corp has quite an extensive plan in place - we would expect so much - to make MySpace profitable and being giant media moguls, they should be successfull. But it’s MySpace - although it’s an amazing concept with a proven success record - the verdict is still out on the profitability of the whole thing.

So, in my humble opinion, Google did the right thing NOT to buy MySpace - that’s if they were actually really interested from the start. My opinion is also that the whole MySpace concept is only a phase and that Google should not try to create a better version - they should rather spend more time on their ongoing battle with Microsoft, because that’s just so much more fun!

Blow-me-up Foozie

June 28, 2006 at 6:16 am · Filed under Gadgets

This looks like some awesome fun to us and the $600 pricetag seems to justify the fun. And it’s so easy…plug it in, let the pump do all the work, grab a few friends, grab a few beers and then have some great (slightly immature) footie.

Gotta love all those gadget geeks (no offence - we’re kinda geeks ourselves) that come up with these nifty products for the jocks! We thought that the geeks hated the jocks ever since high school!?

SPACE

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Victoria’s Brazilian Secret

June 27, 2006 at 6:13 am · Filed under Pretty Girls

Adriana Lima, the 25-year-old exotic Brazilian goddess, is surely one of the world’s top runway and fashion models. She gets her stunningly good looks from her French, Portuguese, Native-American and Carribean heritage.

Her modelling career started when she won a Ford modelling competition at the tender age of 13. After that her career just skyrocketed - appearring in all of the world’s top fashion magazines and making name for herself in the US and UK.

At the moment she’s famous as a Victoria Secret’s model and she’s known as the VS “Angel”, after appearing on the runway with angelic wings on her back for the specific VS Angels Collection.

We hope there is some more years of fame and glamour for Adriana yet, because we certainly don’t mind seeing the photos.

SPACE

Here’s some more photos of this beauty…