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What would you do if you owned the entire web for one hour!? – The Next Web Contest

By Srikanth AD
January 16, 2009
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Own the Interwebs
What would you do if you rule the web for one hour? [Photo credit: Thomas Hawk]

It means that you are the king of the web for sixty minutes. You rule it. You have administrator access to each and every service or the web.

For instance, you can edit Google.com, Yahoo.com or any website. You can edit, delete, and download any content or media on the web. You can change Ads on sites to link to your sites, log into anyone’s email, social networking accounts and hack ‘n crack.

Here is a contest to show off your innovative mind and imagination.

This contest is not to find ways of how much revenue you can make if you own the entire web for one hour. But, its an open challenge for participants to think ‘out of the box’ and project your imagination about how would you change the web or what would you do specifically in a time limit of one hour if you own the entire web.

Interested participants can submit their response via form. The responses will be evaluated by our team and the winner will be disclosed accordingly.

The prize

A VIP invitation for The Next Web Salon – an inspiring night with visionaries and people who change the world.

Form after the click.


  • I'd forward all URLs to http://thenextweb.com/

    Hope the servers won't crash :)
  • Wow, I would probably be so mind-boggled about what to do that I would just be sitting there for one hour straight, staring at all google searches or something.

    But I think implementing one single authentication/ID system on every major service would be a good way to spend that time. Right?
  • Its pretty hard right?
    Good Luck
  • Yeah, it's Mission Impossible 4..
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1229238/
  • I would hit the delete button and blame it on someone I had a grudge against. I don't really hold any major grudges but it would be interesting to see hypothetically what would happen in this hypothetical situation
  • coder
    It would be interesting to see the winners response
  • laura
    Wow, nice contest!
    The idea is ruling the web is very interesting
  • Leuk: Wat zou jij doen als je 1 uur lang de baas over het internet was? http://tinyurl.com/9motqq
  • I will simple shut down all the networks and servers and stop the carbon emissions due to them at least for one hour

    and make people to think about global warming and destruction mother earth :(
  • Here we have a promising contender.
    Truly promising idea.
    Good Luck
  • Do remind yourself of the alternative though: People will be disappointed and will drive down to the library to find what they were looking for.
    Hm, driving to the library or using Google, what would emit more carbon?

    I agree, awareness is essential but you don't make people aware by letting them stare at a blank screen.

    Maybe you would rather shizzle DNS servers so everybody would visit http://www.worldlandtrust.org/ (and then sizzle some more servers to mirror the website and not let it break under the load :-)

    Try a positive approach, it will carry further :-)
  • What would you do if you owned the entire web for one hour!? - The Next Web Contest http://tinyurl.com/9motqq
  • RT @fossiloflife: What would you do if you owned the entire web for one hour!? - The Next Web Contest http://tinyurl.com/9motqq
  • http://tinyurl.com/9motqq - Even if the competition is not that interesting, when you think about it... the possibilities are endless!
  • No advertisements for one hour :)...let the web be like it was at the beginning, just richer in information.
  • Remove all the clutter, clean out the websites that aren't visited for a year, make all the other websites w3c compliant (killing the usefulness of any IE in the process, make everybody turn to a w3c compliant browser), take a long look at the amazing beauty of the thing and open up the gates to the hordes again.
  • Hmm! Awesome idea ruling the web! I would use a crawler to crawl every page that has anti-terrorism or anti-religious slogans and delete it! And furthering that, I will find some way to keep anti slogans away from the web forever! Atleast that way I can bring some peace and brotherhood in the world! :)
  • michelle
    It would be interesting to see how people like Obama or Bill Gates utilize such an opportunity.
    :)
  • What would u do if u owned the web for 60 min http://tinyurl.com/9motqq
  • This is the scariest idea, What would you do if you owned the Internet for an hour? http://bit.ly/7ucH
  • This is the scariest idea, What would you do if you owned the Internet for an hour? http://bit.ly/7ucH http://ff.im/-DQTv
  • WOW..Easy I would create a bank account and just for that one hour collect all the revenue it makes.:)
  • I'll become the owner of The Next Web !

    Cruel ! Isn't it ? :P
  • Well, what would be your first step after you own TNW.
    :)
  • Anonymous
    first of all free membership to wow or anything give ur self awesome stuff in any game or hack an ex's page or delete the whole web sending bilions of files to be remade,send a virus that scans for anything you want ANYTHING HAHAHAHA(sorry over tired,, all nighter lol)
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