Set Forever
I came back to work in early January 2006 after a short break and listened to a news story on television about a guy named Alex Tew who created a website called “The Million Dollar Homepage” in order to help fund his university degree studies. His idea was quite simple; to sell pixels on the home page of his site on which a buyer can place an image with a link to a website. The total value of all the pixels came to 1 million dollars. The last set of pixels were auctioned off and the million dollar limit may have been exceeded.
Anyway, I thought Alex’s idea was great… and it was because it worked. Alex sold all the pixels and probably made more money than he required to get him through his studies.
On the night of hearing the story, I couldn’t sleep as something in my head was telling me “You can do better! You can do better!”
I tried to get on with day-to-day life and forget what my thoughts were telling me as I thought it could be a selfish sub-conscious message telling me to do something in order to make a quick buck.
I eventually found quality time to consider my thoughts and spoke to a few people about them.
After a bit of reflection I convinced myself that there was room for improvement in giving more value to people, doing my bit in my life, and perhaps to develop an idea which could be handed over to willing and capable people who would look after my idea when I wasn’t here anymore.
My idea is Set Forever where you, with or without handing over money, will have the opportunity to have a space forever for what you want and what is possible with legal and political currencies. However, as I don’t think that anyone has, or can offer, “foreverness”, I need to be able to make real the opportunity of foreverness, and this is what I will be doing over the coming future on this site at setforever.net.
If you have control over a website and want to, you can help me to help myself to help you, by linking to SET Forever (the web address is http://www.setforover.net).
