Million People Page - Blog (Entries tagged as pr)

October update

nospam@example.com (Rob and Heidi) — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:55:27 -0400

The last couple of months have seen plenty of new countries joining the site - including India, Israel, Venezuela and Brazil. In fact, 26 countries are now represented, and there are over 300 people listed so far, which is over one every day - and the number of people adding profiles has been accelerating over time, which is great.

The most popular birthdays so far are 11th November, 31st May, and 23rd January, and there are some interesting degrees of separation developing.

The Easter Egg feature has also been significantly enhanced, so if you haven't found it yet, keep looking!

And be sure to keep up with your ranking by visiting your profile regularly...

New Shortcut Keys

nospam@example.com (Rob and Heidi) — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 12:08:10 -0400

We made a minor site update over the weekend, adding shortcut/accessibility keys to the main navigation. These work like windows shortcut keys, so that if you press ALT and the underlined letter in the menu item, you will be taken to that page. On a Mac, you hold down CTRL and the key.

So, for example, if you want to visit the homepage, you can press ALT-o (or CTRL-o on a Mac).

We passed the 200 profile milestone this week, and welcomed profiles from Italy and India.

Google PageRank of 5

nospam@example.com (Rob and Heidi) — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 13:53:24 -0400

Google has given us a pagerank of 5 - which shows us as an "important, high quality site". Which is even better news for people wanting to advertise their website via their profile.

The ranking system is starting to settle down nicely, with those people with the most referal links (and the most friends visiting their profile) moving up the rankings. In fact, our current number one ranked person moved from lowest to highest ranking in the space of a week by telling all his friends, so if you are on the site and haven't told all your friends yet - do it today!

Change of colour for the UK

nospam@example.com (Rob and Heidi) — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 16:33:05 -0500

To better distinguish between US profiles and UK profiles, I have changed the colour associated with the UK. This is because with over 1/3 of internet users coming from these countries, the homepage needed some more variation. If you want to see more colours on the site - then tell your friends in other countries!

First Spanish profile added yesterday - viva espana!

Sunday musings

nospam@example.com (Rob and Heidi) — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 09:23:33 -0500

I found myself awake at 4:30am this morning, thanks to a head cold, and despite a branded hot lemon drink, found I couldn't get back to sleep at all. So, out of sheer want of anything better to do whilst waiting for sunrise, I settled down to surf the net and see what was interesting people in the world.
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Million People Page Launched!

nospam@example.com (Rob and Heidi) — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 11:47:00 -0500

After nearly a week of frantic keybashing on my Apple Mac in between clients, the Million People Page is finally born! The launch was marked by emailing all the people in my address book and issuing a press release.

The idea is to try and create a unique single page snapshot of the world's internet users and how they are connected. The Million People Page takes the original pixel advertising concept site 'The Million Dollar Homepage' by Alex Tew and adds a unique human twist (because humans are better than adverts).

By adding a photo and your details (which includes a 'favourite website' link for those who want to promote a website) and then emailing everyone you know (telling them your unique Person ID), the site will not only form a unique sample of the world population - the only place you can meet a million people! - but will also track the 6 degrees of separation of all the people on the site and the progress of your email.

So please, please, please, support this by buying a pixel profile for US $2 and then emailing all your friends and urging them to do the same. Or even if you don�t want to add your details, please still tell all the people you know. The result should be really cool, and the site should generate lots of interest, and will potentially be seen by millions of people over the coming years. Forget 15 minutes of fame - this is a minimum 5 years of fame (for you and your favourite website).

Thanks a million!
Rob