I was disappointed when Alex Tew announced his follow-up idea to milliondollarhomepage earlier this month. I remembered reading that he had something up his sleeve 4/5 months ago. Was this it? I was sure it had been done before.

A friend of mine purchased a block (minimum order) and is receiving an average of 40 visits per day. Is that worth the $200? I don't think so! That could buy some targeted advertising.

So is it a failure? Maybe it’s too early to call. Although the site’s not been active a month I can’t see it picking up – there’s nothing new for the press to ‘buy into’ – Alex is no longer a poor student and it’s hardly a revolutionary idea, just a rehash.

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Here’s a list of 5 things I’m most looking forward to or wanting to purchase in 2007. It’s a bit varied and I’ll miss out the obvious things like ‘world peace’ (I’ll leave that to Bono)

In no particular order:

• Microsoft's Zune
• New Brett Anderson album & tour
• Blackpool's promotion to 'The Championship'
• Supreme Commander
• New PC (to play the above!)

I don’t think there’s anything there that isn’t reasonable. Number one priority is getting the gig project complete but that’s only a week or two off.

Well,  I’m sure if you’re an AdSense publisher you’ll have already heard about Google finally giving us more information regarding the placement of AdSense  ads and images. If you haven’t, see the AdSense blog.

Personally, I’ve never placed ads near AdSense ads, though I know it increases click through ratios dramatically, I always try and think about the user first. If they really want to click the ad, they’ll click the ad. I don’t think they should be confused or tricked into clicking an ad that looks like it’s part of the site they’re on.

I’m expecting to see a flurry of sites being listed in the usual places - i.e. SitePoint Marketplace – from site owners that have been taking advantage of this!

I’m stuck at that point I always get stuck at… again.

I always find the last 5-10% of the website the most difficult to complete. It’s not that the work is more difficult, it’s simple stuff but it’s always “such a drag”. Anyway, I thought I’d let you know a little bit about the site.

It’s a user driven database of concerts where the users can say “I’m going to this” or “I went to that” – It lets them build their gig history. There are forums, of course, and widgets for display on social networking sites, blogs, forums etc.  You’ll be able to post reviews and rate gigs and there’ll be other social aspects; the basic friends, comments and messages systems.

That’s all for now! As I said, there’s not that much to do and I’m “in the mood” right now so I better plough on!

It seems PayPerPost are about to do something right. Considering Mr Arrington's previous posts on the company it suprised me when I logged on to TechCrunch this afternoon!

This is good news. If someone is being paid to write a 'review' or advertise another service I'd much rather know that to be the case. I feel if someone is telling me how good a product or service is, it must be at least half decent! However, if someone's being paid to tell me how good something is I'd be more skeptical toward it, and if it wasn't up to scratch I'd think before trusting that persons judgement again. So it works both ways -thank you FTC. 

Oh, and if you're wondering - this isn't a paid post!