One Million People (from the guy who made the Million Dollar Homepage)

http://www.onemillionpeople.com/

by duck • 16 years ago

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jacquesm• 16 years ago

Good for him :)

arn• 16 years ago

ok, this is actually a pretty good idea.

It's a much more legit variant of what I would typically call sketchy/scammy efforts targeted at vanity sales. High school students, and professionals typically get junk mail telling them (their parents) that they've been accepted into some sort of "honor society" type book, and will be listed. Of course, they also offer the parents the ability to buy the book for some $$. So, they sell a ton of books to proud parents who would love to have their kids named in some honors book. Anyway, similar scheme for professionals etc...

So, this idea, is big book of people's profiles. 1 million in all. So, some percentage of those people are going to want to have the book for themselves. To show people - hey - look at this. But it's actually a kinda cool sounding book, so I could see this having some real appeal.

Anyway, nice idea.

EDIT: hang on, looking at previous coverage, it looks like it was $3 a spot. Right now it says "Free". My post was based on it being "free". Not sure what/when that changed.

duck• 16 years ago

Looks like it was $3, but now it is free. They added page sponsors instead - http://blog.onemillionpeople.com/joining-is-now-free

mikeknoop2• 16 years ago

I am unsure why Page Sponsors are needed - isn't the idea to going to sell the final book at a premium?

ctice• 16 years ago

ah, a book of faces ... a face book, if you will

mikeknoop2• 16 years ago

The best part, it is powered by Facebook (Connect).

zaidf2• 16 years ago

Funny. I tried obamamillion.com couple years ago to make a similar thing of a million obama supporters. Never took off :o

rokhayakebe• 16 years ago

Well, people are more interested in themselves than Obama.

zaidf2• 16 years ago

Donno, it was pretty crazy around inauguration time :)

philk• 16 years ago

Maybe I'm more curmudgeonly than most, but I have no idea why I'd either want a tiny picture of my face in a book or a copy of the book itself on my coffee table.

I suppose you could use it to clear out unwanted house guests "Alright everybody, lets look through One Million People together!"

frolov• 16 years ago

A quick idea that could avoid the "why bother" and originality issues.

There is a 25m x 4m swimming pool here, with about half a million 2cm x 2cm blue tiles (http://imgur.com/UdzbE.jpg). Imagine that for a cost of printing a tile, one could put a tiny picture of their face in this pool.

Why would anyone do that? This is a 5+ star mountain resort located half a mile from several 2014 Winter Olympics sites. Those who play the tile game shall get a lifetime discount on resort's accommodation and services.

Advantages are simple: participants get discounts, those who stay here have a more fun swimming experience, and the resort gets clients and promotion (even if the effort is unsuccessful in the end).

Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated w. the resort.

aberkowitz2• 16 years ago

Million Dollar Homepage worked because it was clever and original.

Putting your picture in a virtual book with other people is neither clever or original.

dbrannan• 16 years ago

It's kind of like the online version of "Who's Who" that is sent to graduates, professionals, scholars, etc.

yosho• 16 years ago

I disagree, I think it's pretty clever and original.

While it might not be a million dollar idea, I think it's a lot more interactive (friend invites) and interesting than his last big project.

aberkowitz2• 16 years ago

Million dollar homepage had a point; Pixels bought for advertising would be viewed for years to come by thousands of people.

One Million People is a free service to have your face as part of a meaningless book that costs $100.

People are so excited about it that they haven't even filled up the first page.

greyman• 16 years ago

It's not only a virtual book, since he wants to print it. What I don't like is the fact that one photograph is only 1.1cm2, that's too small for it to have a value as a photography book.

RealGeek• 16 years ago

This guy will probably spam Facebook feeds of 1 million users, and make more money than $3 per user.

izendejas• 16 years ago

Has anyone actually read their privacy policy? What's the quickest way to get 1 million people's data? This might be it folks.

This is too fishy: "In addition to any disclosures we may make as set out above, we may also disclose your personal information to third parties: in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets; if we or substantially all of our assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about our users will be one of the transferred assets..."

What exactly is an asset here? Could an asset be the very data they've collected? Who can make sense of this?

stuhacking• 16 years ago

I get the feeling that not all these faces are real life people... ahem `Zachary Morris'?

Tichy• 16 years ago

I am sure I have seen something like that before, even added my face. Still, from the million dollar hp guy, there might be more traction behind it.

mike-cardwell2• 16 years ago

Why would somebody create a website that requires Facebook to work? Why can't you just upload the image using a form, and have facebook as a secondary option? Retarded.

megablast• 16 years ago

The obvious reason, it cuts down on spam by a huge amount, and you get accurate data. Let facebook do all the hardwork, this way you do not spend as long checking the data.

mike-cardwell2• 16 years ago

Spam? Exactly what sort of stuff does using Facebook filter out?

Qz• 16 years ago

It bothers me that I have to click the tiny page arrows at the top and bottom, rather than the stack of pages image at the right, which was my first instinct.

One Million People (from the guy who made the Million Dollar Homepage)

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