I just received the following email from AGLOCO:
We would like to update you on the status of AGLOCO's operations. We continue to believe in the AGLOCO concept, but our revenue is currently not sufficient to give Members a meaningful distribution. And though there are increases in membership, the resulting revenue is not enough to support operating costs. As a development team we are unable to continue to use our savings to fund the operations. If any Member would like to pursue continuing the operations of AGLOCO, you may contact us at agloco1@live.com .
We would like to thank every Member for supporting our effort to bring a piece of the Internet directly to the user. We hope that we can find a way to keep the operations going.
AGLOCO Development Team
It looks to me like the idea of having users run a toolbar that shows them ads is simply not a worthwhile business venture. I am honestly surprised that they tried this in the first place. For one thing it smells like a bastard step-brother to click-fraud.
Because the only people who see the ads are network members (people who stand to gain financially by clicking those ads) this program was broken from the beginning.
Farewell AGLOGO, we hardly knew you. Seriously, who were you again?
I just got this via email. I'll have to download it tonight and look it over.
Dear Stephen,
We are pleased to report that your AGLOCO Viewbar has been released and is ready for you to download now. Since you signed up with AGLOCO, our community has continued to grow even larger, stronger, and more active. With the Viewbar software, we are excited for each Member of the AGLOCO community to begin earning their share of the wealth generated on the Internet.
Here is how to download and launch your Viewbar:
1. Go to the AGLOCO website at https://www.agloco.com/c/portal/login and login to get to your Member Account page. There is now a “Download the Viewbar†button on that page.
2. Simply click the Viewbar download button and follow the download directions. Please click “Run†when offered to Run, Save or Cancel.
3. You will need to enter your Account ID# (or email address) and your AGLOCO account password to activate your Viewbar.
4. After you download the Viewbar, you can launch it for first time by going to your Windows Start Menu and clicking on the AGLOCO Viewbar Icon.
If too many Members are downloading at the same time you may not be able to get immediate access to the Viewbar (a “timed-out†or “no access†page may appear). If this happens, please try again after a short while. If you have a Norton firewall you may be asked to allow access to “viewbar.exe†and “update.exe†(please check “Permit Access Always†for proper installation of the Viewbar).
The Viewbar is currently available for Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Vista and will work with IE (Internet Explorer) or Firefox browsers. When ads start to appear on your Viewbar, please be aware that the Viewbar ad targeting system will not be fully active at first (this will not impact your accumulation of AGLOCO hours).
If you encounter any problems during the download process, please send your questions to help@agloco.com so that we can assist you.
Dan Jorgensen
Member Coordinator
I guess I need to login to my AGLOGO account and see how big my network has grown! not an AGLOCO member? Click here to join up under me!
Want to make money by just surfing the Internet? Read on!
Whenever you are online, either surfing, blogging, clicking on an ad, making a purchase, all the money generated by your activities is pocketed by a small number of players. At AGLOCOâ„¢ they say not anymore!
AGLOCOâ„¢ is a global community, whose owners are its Members (you and potentially the millions of internet users out there). Their goal is to capture a significant portion of the value generated by our online activities and return it to Members in cash. Best of all, it is totally free, Members will NEVER have to pay anything, nor will they have to disclose ANY personal information!
How does this work? Once you sign up on their website, when available you will be able to download the Viewbar software, a free toolbar-sized application (half the size of a traditional Windows tool bar) that quietly sits on your desktop without ever hampering your online habits. That’s all you need to do! Just continue using the Internet as you used to… no need to change your habits!
Do you have several individuals using one computer? You can have different AGLOCOâ„¢ viewbars to fit the profile of each user.
Don’t want to see or use the Viewbar at any given time? Just minimize it and the Viewbar stops working!
There are different ways AGLOCOâ„¢ can make money for its Members:
Cash: You get cash by surfing the Internet while the Viewbar is running. AGLOCO™ ’s profits are distributed back to its Members. And you can also receive real-time discounts should you choose to purchase from AGLOCO™ ’s partners. They will never include gambling or adult entertainment sites as partners.
Shares: In addition to cash, AGLOCOâ„¢ will give out shares in the company to its Members. Eventually, AGLOCOâ„¢ plans to go public and will be traded on the London Stock Exchange AIM. You can start earning stock options by keeping Viewbar active while you surf. In addition, you will gain extra shares by referring active users to AGLOCOâ„¢ (they lose nothing). Click here to see the calculator.
The more people join AGLOCO™ , the more value the community can generate for itself. The company believes those that build the community deserve more: your own profits become larger the more people you refer. You can accumulate hours not only from your Internet activity but also from those who you refer, and their referrals too… Up to 5 levels underneath you! For example, if you refer 10 people and all of them refer 5 people each, you could make over 7000 shares a month*!
Remember, this is all free, you don’t lose anything, all you have to do is sign up, download the Viewbar and that’s it. Build your network and refer friends, family and colleagues to AGLOCO™ and earn even more!
The guys behind this idea include several Stanford MBA’s and a few individuals who started AllAdvantage back in 1998, which gave over $100 million to its users before falling victim to the burst of the internet bubble. Today, the context is much more favorable: The sophistication of on-line commerce, the rapid emergence of communities, the wealth of advertising revenue sources, etc. Isn’t it time you got your share of the Internet?
Don't wait any longer. This is a win-win opportunity, and you’ll make it even more profitable for yourself when you start referring friends and relatives before others get to them! Since I assume you learned about AGLOCO™ thanks to my website*, please don’t forget to add my referee ID when signing up: BBBB1158. Click here to sign up directly!
UPDATE: The more I think about this the more I have a problem with it.
As a web surfer it is a good deal, as a web publisher it is a bad idea.
One problem many web publishers who use AdSense have is that of MFA sites. An MFA (Made For AdSense) site gets traffic by bidding low amounts on high value keywords. These low cost ads show up on a blog and lead the clicker to a site full of high dollar click ads. Essentially they leach traffic from a good blog to get them to their site that is full of outbound links.
They pay 2 cents for the traffic from your site and generate $2 when the person leaves their site.
This service is similar except the website you visit generates no income. Why? Because you are being given an incentive to click on the ads in the browser bar rather than those on the website! This sounds wrong on so many levels. It's equivalent to telling people to click on their own ads!
