One Million People (from the guy who made the Million Dollar Homepage)
onemillionpeople.com
onemillionpeople.com
This is too fishy: "In addition to any disclosures we may make as set out above, we may also disclose your personal information to third parties: in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets; if we or substantially all of our assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about our users will be one of the transferred assets..."
What exactly is an asset here? Could an asset be the very data they've collected? Who can make sense of this?
I suppose you could use it to clear out unwanted house guests "Alright everybody, lets look through One Million People together!"
There is a 25m x 4m swimming pool here, with about half a million 2cm x 2cm blue tiles (http://imgur.com/UdzbE.jpg). Imagine that for a cost of printing a tile, one could put a tiny picture of their face in this pool.
Why would anyone do that? This is a 5+ star mountain resort located half a mile from several 2014 Winter Olympics sites. Those who play the tile game shall get a lifetime discount on resort's accommodation and services.
Advantages are simple: participants get discounts, those who stay here have a more fun swimming experience, and the resort gets clients and promotion (even if the effort is unsuccessful in the end).
Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated w. the resort.
Putting your picture in a virtual book with other people is neither clever or original.
While it might not be a million dollar idea, I think it's a lot more interactive (friend invites) and interesting than his last big project.
One Million People is a free service to have your face as part of a meaningless book that costs $100.
People are so excited about it that they haven't even filled up the first page.
It's a much more legit variant of what I would typically call sketchy/scammy efforts targeted at vanity sales. High school students, and professionals typically get junk mail telling them (their parents) that they've been accepted into some sort of "honor society" type book, and will be listed. Of course, they also offer the parents the ability to buy the book for some $$. So, they sell a ton of books to proud parents who would love to have their kids named in some honors book. Anyway, similar scheme for professionals etc...
So, this idea, is big book of people's profiles. 1 million in all. So, some percentage of those people are going to want to have the book for themselves. To show people - hey - look at this. But it's actually a kinda cool sounding book, so I could see this having some real appeal.
Anyway, nice idea.
EDIT: hang on, looking at previous coverage, it looks like it was $3 a spot. Right now it says "Free". My post was based on it being "free". Not sure what/when that changed.