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Example Invitation to Oprah Winfrey
Heard of the www.milliondollarhomepage.com ?
If not If you are not sure what the fuss is about you check out the article on CNN Money.
Alex Tew earned a million dollars for himself by selling a million pixels(colored dots on his web page) for 1 dollar each. Random clones of this are doomed to fail. Who wants to enrich some random guy so that he lives happily ever after. Alex deserved to get it for pioneering the concepts. But(Oprah=Buzz Factory ;-).
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) non-profit association have launched a global program to equip hundreds of millions of students and their teachers with ultra-low-cost, individual, connected laptop computers to dramatically enhance the children’s primary and secondary education. These will be fully powered, general-purpose laptops, sized for children and adolescents, running Open Source software, with wireless mesh-network connectivity.
The machines will be built and sold at cost to ministries of education, with a floating price targeted at $100 and thereafter floating down. Each of the nations will identify three or more regions within their country emphasizing, when possible, rural and remote areas where all students in all primary and secondary grades receive a personal and connected machine: One Laptop per Child.
Participating countries: Brazil, Thailand, Egypt, United States (Massachusetts), Cambodia, Costa Rica and Tunisia have already committed in various ways. The laptops will be sold only to governments, to be distributed through the ministries of education willing to adopt the policy of one laptop per child.
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As an extension of this program, a "$100 Laptop/Pixel HomePage has been created".
Now you could Buy your place in history for $100 a pixel.
The entire $100 would go towards giving a Laptop to a needy child. For Eg you could buy a 100x100pixels put up the "Big O" on the top left corner of the page. But that space will soon be gobbled up. If you want to reserve the spot, you better hurry up.!!! The pixels are available on a first come first serve basis. Imagine the value of that on the branding. People will visit the Million laptop page ever after. Imagine the amount of traffic that 'O' will bring to the Oprah.com.
You will have one more interesting and attention grabbing thing to discuss on the Oprah show. Get the additional credit of setting the ball rolling by being the first to register. Imagine the fact that the OLPC plans to ship some 15million such units soon. Imagine if the million laptop page was made the home page all those 15 million laptops how much traffic that would generate to Oprah.com. In fact these would be new users and they may spend a few weeks before they figure out how to change the home page. This is in addition to all those people who would just turn up to see what the fuss is all about. Imagine the impact of having the "Big O" on the top left corner of such a page.
Cost of books + learning materials + Good Teachers (for 12 year education) >> $100.
Just imagine the power of Google, Free Text books, Access to remote teachers. Peer to peer Networking in disasters like Tsunamis, Earthquakes, Hurricanes and the Famous blackouts... The independance from power and peer to peer capability makes it far superior to even cell phones.
Let a million more minds bloom in the bright sunhine of knowledge.
Regards. ...
(This is an wiki.) It could evove though contributions...
Note: Right now all this is plain hypotheses. Do not take it literally.