Artist sells webs most important words
An artist and would-be film director hopes to raise the money to produce his first movie by selling the "1000 most important words on the web".
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but Bulgarian Nikola Raykov thinks the 1,000 words will do just fine and could secure him $100,000.
He has set up 1000wordsforsale.com which shows the top 1,000 words on the web - including 'porn', 'sex' and 'inbox' - spinning in a virtual space.
Advertisers can then 'buy' the rights to a word which means it will link to their site for the next 10 years.
Raykov hopes to use the money raised to turn his screenplay "Enter" into a full length movie ... so far he has sold just THREE words, so it could end up being quite short.
Of the movie he says: "Enter tells the strange story of a desperate young man, who awakens trapped in a bizarre labyrinth, with amnesia - sets out to solve the puzzle and find a way out, but has to play by the illogical rules of this nightmarish world and its quirky inhabitants."
The idea for the site is similar to the million dollar homepage on which student Alex Tew sold off 1,000,000 pixels to advertisers and pocketed a cool $1m.
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