Alexadex
Here’s a pretty ridiculous website: Alexadex. It’s some kind of game where people buy pretend shares in websites. When their Alexa traffic rating goes up, so does the share price. You start out with $10,000 pretend dollars and try to make pretend money. Sounds kind of like Second Life. How do people come up with this stuff?
Anyhow, this site, Webomatica.com is actually listed at $14 per share. I totally missed the IPO. I think I should sign up and buy all the shares available (21), myself. Because after all, according to the all-knowing, 100% accurate Blog Worth Evaluator, my blog is worth $24,275 (I go with the higher number, of course) meaning each of those Alexa shares ought to be worth $1,733 apiece.
Can I get busted for insider trading on Alexadex, trading pretend money?
[…] Basically, my web projects aren’t motivated by money. Although I joke about the “net worth” of this blog, when it comes down to it, I’m ambivalent. I recall a brief stint I had selling cellphones in retail and how the manager would play these ridiculous games like: “The next person that sells a cell phone wins all the cash my wallet!” That was the worst job I ever had, especially when some poor customer would try to return a phone they were strong-armed into buying and I’d have to break them the news they had a binding contract. […]