I’m sure some of you would want to give to charitable organizations more often. We all would wouldn’t we? Even though many are just going to want to keep their AGLOCO money, there will be an option to give what you make for surfing the internet directly to charity if you so choose.

Yes, you will be able to give your cash and/or shares directly to the Charity of your choice. AGLOCO™ will also work with select Charities so as to facilitate donations. In addition, The AGLOCO™ Foundation was set up to promote free access to information across the world. The Development Team has agreed to tender the shares they earn as Founding Members to the Foundation.

So, not only can those of us who want to earn money online for ourselves benefit greatly, we also have the option to give to charity instead.

I have just got word from our Shanghai based tech team with an update on the Viewbar status. Most of the QA tests are going well with the exception of the ad servers. The team is currently integrating the Viewbar with the ad servers so that the Viewbar will have ads (and revenue) ready to go when it launches (it would not make too much sense to release a Viewbar that was not making any money). So, while the Viewbar is still on track for release this month, making the April 2nd to 16th window is getting more difficult – and, yes, the Shanghai team has been working seven days a week for quite a while now and will continue to do so until the Viewbar is released.

There is some good Viewbar news for most of you. As I mentioned in my last post, we are initially releasing about 50,000 Viewbars to those Members that signed up first. Our current plan is to release another 50,000 Viewbars every day until every pre-launch Member has a Viewbar (which means all Members should have their Viewbar within the first 10 – 11 days). This should alleviate some of the fears Members have expressed that they might have to wait weeks or months for their Viewbar. We recognize that there have been delays on the front end of the release, so we are trying to tighten up the back end of the release as much as possible.

Also, as some Members have correctly pointed out, AGLOCO’s early revenue will not immediately translate into cash distributions to Members. While we do not know how large our initial revenue will be, we do know that AGLOCO has operating costs to pay. It is important to remember that AGLOCO is not a “get rich quick scheme”, and we maintain that the most prudent way to build AGLOCO as a sustainable company is to calibrate Member distributions to company earnings. As such, the cash payouts will not begin until there is a comfortable balance between AGLOCO’s free cash flow and AGLOCO’s expenses. It is important to add that all Members will begin to accumulate hours from when they first start using the Viewbar (and referral hours will also be earned). Those hours will not be wasted. Both overall hours and monthly hours will be used in determining distributions to Members.

I’ll keep you posted as relevant updates continue to come up.

Brian Greenwald
AGLOCO Development Team
http://blog.agloco.com/

UPDATE: AGLOCO doesn’t make your members anything. DO NOT sign up for AGLOCO. It is straight rubbish.

Search: Every time you use the Viewbar™ to do an Internet search, AGLOCO earns money from the search engine providers. (For example, Google pays as much as $0.10 on average for each search that is directed to its search engine.)

Advertising: The Viewbar™ itself displays ads that are targeted based upon the websites you’re visiting. When you click on an ad and make a purchase, AGLOCO receives a referral fee, which we pass on to our Members. (Please note: Individual members do not receive any compensation for clicking on ads in the Viewbar™, and the Viewbar™ can detect if someone is clicking ads in a fraudulent manner.)

Transaction commissions: Many major retailers pay commissions when you refer customers who make a purchase. AGLOCO collects that commission and passes it on to our members. (For example, Amazon pays an 8.5% commission to most websites who refer customers, and has cut deals for even larger percentages. The bigger the AGLOCO community, the better commission we can negotiate for our Members.)

Software distribution: Numerous software companies pay websites to encourage the download of new software releases (for example, Adobe’s Flash and Acrobat Reader software), and trial versions of new programs. AGLOCO members not only get access to the latest and coolest software, they get paid for it.

Service distribution: Many online service providers will look to the AGLOCO community as a source of new and active users for their services. (For example, eBay, Skype, and PayPal, among others, all pay fees to people who help them recruit new active users to their services)

Product distribution: When Members agree to use a product, such as cell phones, high-tech gadgets, office supplies, new credit cards or financial services, AGLOCO can collect referral fees. Some companies even offer special rebate and cash-back programs.

I don’t know how many of you have noticed this yet, but AGLOCO has disappeared off the face of the planet. No explanation. No warnings. If you try to go to their website it is a dead link. Even their blog was never updated again after October.

I’m sure most of you, like myself gave up on Agloco long ago. Their ridiculous explanations on their Viewbar. The delays after delays in getting it out. This company was pretty much BSing everyone that followed them. Most of us assumed they would never make it, and we were right.

There are a couple of things that I really found disturbing about them while they were around, however. First, was the fact that they never said a word to anyone when they shut it all down. They just killed their website and stopped updating the affiliates. The last e-mail i believe I received from Agloco was back in November and that e-mail went on to say something about how they couldn’t afford to pay out any dividends to the affiliates at this time. Just one month after they detailed how they were going to pay out affiliates, and saying that they were raising the payout per hour.

The most disturbing thing in Agloco’s short history had to do with a request that we received from the management team in I suppose was October 2007. This wasn’t publicly issued. This was sent to the affiliates via e-mail. In the e-mail the management team requested that we use the Viewbar to search through their main sponsor Ask.com. No big deal. Good idea. Well… if you kept reading that e-mail they went on to ask that once you did a search with Ask.com that you would CLICK ON THEIR SPONSORED ADS. Can you believe this? If anyone has ever been part of an ad program of any sort they know that this is the biggest no no there is. It is stealing money from the advertisers for personal gain, and will get you kicked out of every program almost instantly if you are caught.

My theory is that Ask.com dumped Agloco and they had no other option, but to fold. After getting that e-mail asking for clicks, I had no reason to think they would be around much longer anyways. That was a desperate measure. In fact that request was likely forwarded to ask.com by many who received it and they should have immediately dumped Agloco, and then sued them on top of it.

UPDATE: The AGLOCO Viewbar, just like Agloco is dead. I would encourage you to uninstall it from your computer as it has no use anymore.

Finally, after the long wait the Viewbar has officially been released to all the Agloco members and you can download it now. I got the e-mail a day ago, and went to get the viewbar immediately. I have run it for a few hours and find that it is not obtrusive in any way to my regular browsing.

The file itself to install the Viewbar is 2.2 MB in the download. May be a little slow right now because EVERYONE is trying to download theirs right now so you may have to check in a few times to get yours. Install takes just a couple minutes from the icon and you are ready to go. Launch the bar and enter your Agloco Username (I used my e-mail addy) and then the viewbar will show up at the bottom of your screen. It can be run with IE, or Firefox.

In the next post I’ll put up the Viewbar FAQs so that you can reference it and get started.

So NOW you can finally start using it and promote Agloco a little more since the Viewbar is finally here!