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MillionDollarWeightLoss.com buys the last 1000 PIXELS on MillionDollarHomePage

I got this release today about the last thousand pixels on the milliondollarhomepage being purchased. Amazingly I wrote about the wild fluctuations on the downside as a part of this auction. Now the auction which I witnessed with my own eyes as high as $152,100.00 dropped to $38,100 to a weight loss site.

I think a weight loss like this site is a great candidate to purchase these last few pixels as weight loss is a big business.

Perhaps the only surprise is that Vonage didn’t buy the pixels or even AT&T. Think about the publicity value of being written about so frequently as the winner of this auction.

How about a tie-in like this: Save millions with VoIP, see our ad on milliondollarhomepage. Hey, wait a minute. Perhaps Internet Telephony Conference & Expo should have purchased these pixels. Well, I guess there is always trumpingalex. I wonder if the founder of this site will cut us a break as I was the first to break the story about him.

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-Online weight loss marketer outbids the competition for the final ad space on MillionDollarHomepage.com -

NEW YORK– The final 1,000 pixels of the MillionDollarHompage.com, a new Web site that serves as a conduit for advertisers to gain exposure by purchasing blocks of pixels that will link to their own home page, was purchased today by Elijah Kliger of Brooklyn, NY, director of business development at Netnutri.com for the new Web site www.MillionDollarWeightloss.com.

The one million pixels on the page were originally sold off at a price of $1 per pixel. Demand for the remaining space on the site was in such high demand that Las Vegas odds makers were predicting that the final 1,000 pixels would be sold for $1million at auction.

Kliger’s winning bid for the final 1,000 pixels of this historical eBay auction was $38,100, far less than the highest bid of $160,000.

According to Kliger, “We are thrilled that Netnutri.com is able to be a part of Internet history and we look forward to receiving an excellent response for MillionDollarWeightloss.com on MillionDollarHomepage.com.”

The MillionDollarHomepage.com, which was created by Alex Tew, a 21-year-old college student from London, England, looking to pay his tuition, has had a remarkable amount of activity with more than 2.7 million page impressions since its inception.

Netnutri.com is an online retailer of nutritional supplements and other weight loss products.

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VoIP Peering 2.0 is Video Peering 1.0

Hunter Newby has done a great job on his VoIP peering column in Internet Telephony Magazine. The article is so good I want to make sure you take a look at some of it. Be sure to keep reading Internet Telephony Magazine to ensure you read this and other great columns from Hunter, Greg Galitzine and others:

It is quickly becoming widely understood that voice as VoIP is just another application like email. It's a no-brainer, yesterday's news, right? Not such a no-brainer a few years ago though. So, what makes video any different? If the differences in the protocols and compression, etc such as G.711 verses MPEG4 are set aside, nothing is different but the bandwidth requirements. Video is just another application as well. IP is peered, VoIP is peered and video is next.

Video peering is the wild-west, the great white canvas and just as ENUM within VoIP Peering is disrupting the economics of the traditional voice business model the mere capability of a globally distributed IP network openly carrying video feeds, clips and feature-length films poses real threats to broadcast television as well as the cable companies. It's no wonder that the RBOC's are racing with pinpoint accuracy in to IPTV. Don't be surprised when they all begin to peer with each other to deliver video content – not that they're moving anywhere near as fast with VoIP Peering and ENUM. Knowing the players, their vantage point, the revenue models they must protect and the ones they must attack sheds a whole lot of light on their motivation and the pace of both applications.

VoIP as just another application trivializes and compartmentalizes an entire industry that for 100+ years employed and fed hundreds of thousands of people. Such is life, such is evolution. VoIP is becoming a component of every type of IP interaction imaginable, starting with online reservations and heading straight in to the audio component of a full-duplex video session. Just when you thought the rate per minute couldn't go any lower in came flat rate voice. It doesn't end there. Now voice as audio is just another component of video like color verses black and white. When you watch TV you don't have to pay extra for sound... Subscribe here.

Also see Hunter at the VoIP Peering Summit at Internet Telephony Conference & Expo in a few weeks.

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VoIP 2.0 Conference Goes Web 2.0

Internet Telephony Conference & Expo Mashup Announced

Today, Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) the company that produces Internet Telephony Conference & Expo (ITEXPO) announced it has produced a mashup of its domestic attendees signed up for the conference in order to graphically represent where the major interest areas lie in the Voice over IP market. A mashup is a website or application integrating data from various sources into a seamless browsing experience.

Mashups are often databases merged with Google Maps and in this case Google Maps was used as the interface to show where ITEXPO attendees reside or work. In order for the mashup to function the database of attendees to ITEXPO as of December 1, 2005 was run through a service that converted zip codes to longitude and latitude information. This file was subsequently fed into Google Maps to show a graphical representation of where attendees to ITEXPO are located.

Internet Telephony Conference & Expo routinely attracts attendees from over 70 countries as well making it the best-attended international VoIP event. These attendees are not represented on this map. Conference sessions at ITEXPO are routinely translated in other languages and this year Spanish and Portuguese translators will be on hand.

According to Rich Tehrani conference chairman, “We wanted to be among the first conference organizers if not the first to have a mashup of our attendance data.” Tehrani continued, “As a show that bills itself as the ultimate place to see VoIP 2.0 in action, we felt having a mashup of our attendance makes sense. Mashups are according to most, one of the hallmarks of the Web 2.0 world of software and services.

“It is my belief that just as web applications are becoming more interconnected, VoIP 2.0 applications too will be more interconnected with one another as well as tightly coupled with Web 2.0 applications.” Exclaimed Tehrani.

Internet Telephony Conference & Expo takes place in roughly two weeks in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. The exact dates are January 24-27, 2005.

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Google Talk For Windows 98

There are many people around the world complaining that Google Talk needs a Windows 98 version. This blog post has become a place for people with similar feelings about Google Talk coming together to ask for Google to develop a version for their operating system.

Obviously the larger the network of users, the better it is for Google and others using their software. I wonder if Google will take any action on this matter.

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