Review: The NetXperiment

January 5, 2007 in Articles, charity, internet, internet advertising, internet marketing, life, marketing, online advertising, pixel advertising, tag, web 2.0, web sites, web traffic, website promotion, whats hot, world wide web

NetXperiment.Com (Link) The NetXperiment “A Race to 1 Million” is what I would classify a mix between the Million Dollar Home Page and Tag-A-Cloud but with a more noble cause. The site uses the Tag Cloud, and to increase your tag’s size to get noticed on the page, you need to contribute more money compared to other contributors. All proceeds according to the site go to the Five Million Foundation ( http://www.f5m.com.au/ ) raising money for MS.

Can’t argue with a charitable cause here, but the site does have some problems. The major as I see it is the Tag Cloud is not the main page. Advertisers don’t like this, and it also seemingly takes away and distracts people from what they are supposed to want. The second problem is that the smallest contributors can’t even be read on the page, it’s just scripple, and I understand people need to pay more to get it bigger, but there are several large spaces in between tags, and at least on my own browser the graphic design of their tag cloud seemed off, the tags were not inside their cloud background. A bit sloppy.

If you’re down for the cause and would like to donate, by all means, but the site needs to be improved if they really want to raise a million dollars, because people who really would donate to their cause could just directly donate to the Five Million Foundation and avoid paypal taking part of the donation.