Spheres Are The New Pixels
In a world of complex websites like aggregators that aggregate existing aggregators, it’s extremely beneficial to reduce great ideas down to simple formulas. I do this all the time, but here are a couple of my favorites:
1) Million Dollar Homepage + Publicity = Cool, Innovative Idea
2) Million Dollar “X” + Lack of Originality + No Effort = Lame Knockoff
I’m not smart enough to add any variables or derivatives into these equations (probably because I dropped out of high school to pursue a Web 2.0 million dollar social network,) but they are still useful for general applications.
For example, take the website you want to analyze and plug it in to the second equation. I’ll pick an example out of the blue, oh, let’s see… how about AdSpheres.com.

And I’m in luck! www.adspheres.com is supposedly a “totally unique” new way to advertise, but when plugged into my equations, the scientific method yields the same result: “Lame Knockoff”
The formula could be wrong, though, as it’s only 99.9% accurate. (And we know all know that 99.9% usually means 55%, at least in terms of web hosting uptime.) So you have to validate the answer.
Now, to validate your findings, you have to check over the website and consider your gut feeling…
Well, um… in this case, I guess I’m totally wrong. My formula would lead me to believe this is a pixel advertising knockoff, but it is actually the most innovative website I’ve ever seen. It’s obviously different and innovative because they use spheres instead of pixels. Wow!
Just plain genius!
For just $1 you get a tiny ad on a site that no one will see unless they themselves are gullible enough to get roped into the whole “sphere buying” scheme. If they’re that gullible, you could easily convince them to buy just about any worthless $47 ebook!
Now I’m off to buy spheres that say “Did You Just Waste $1 On A Lame Ad? Then CLICK HERE to discover how to gain massive traffic to your website overnight, with no work required!” ![]()


Posted April 15, 2008
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