AGLOCO: The Internet''s First Economic Network

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bolette Skrevet 02-02-2007 kl. 20:50

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Tak skal du have, James

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bolette Skrevet 17-02-2007 kl. 10:32

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Hermed får I endnu et indlæg fra company blog´en.

Asad Khalid said:

“Well i have some concerns about AGLOCO. Though i badly want this to work, but it seems too good to be true. I can also recruit people into joining Agloco as its free. But this is the thing that worries me. Its hard to believe that you’re going to be paid without ‘investing’ or putting something in it.”

Brian Greenwald
AGLOCO Development Team

If being “too good” is our only problem, I think we’re in great shape!

Joking aside, seeming “too good to be true” is probably the number one reason people DON’T sign up for AGLOCO. It seems strange to “get something for nothing.” The truth is, you’re not getting something for nothing. You’re giving the Viewbar a small share of your computer monitor, which we (and apparently many advertisers) consider extremely valuable. You are also choosing us as your partner for commissions, referrals, and fees accumulated through everyday browsing. So, instead of some other middleman making this money, AGLOCO makes it. We win, you win, and the advertisers/companies win for getting your business.

Also, if you decide to refer other Members and build the community, you get more because YOU have built the community and provided it with its most valuable resource: more Members. By providing value to AGLOCO, we provide value back to you for your efforts.

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bolette Skrevet 24-02-2007 kl. 10:50

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Value Proposition 1: You have Viewbar on screen, we pay you for it.

Having a Viewbar on your screen while you are actively browsing the Internet offers benefits to AGLOCO, advertisers, and Internet companies. The internet advertising industry is booming, as companies are trying many different ways to get their information in front of your eyes. As such, every inch of real estate on your screen is valuable (as demonstrated by the “million dollar homepage” last year) www.milliondollarhomepage.com. The Viewbar will show a targeted text ad, and advertisers are more than happy to pay AGLOCO for the opportunity to put that in front of you.

Another reason you get paid is because having an active Viewbar on your screen means that you are asking AGLOCO to be your commission partner. Many things you do on the internet make money for middlemen without you realizing it. AGLOCO never requires Members to do any of these things, but activities such as joining communities (such as eBay and MySpace), searching (such as on Yahoo and Google), downloading free software (such as Adobe Acrobat), and making purchases (such as on Orbitz and Amazon.com), will in many cases generate money for a middleman. By having an active Viewbar on your desktop, you designate AGLOCO to be your middleman. This makes AGLOCO money and, in return for that, AGLOCO pays you back. So, in that way, having an active Viewbar on your screen makes you money for doing what you would ordinarily do.

Value Proposition 2: You build the network, we pay you more.

I talk about this a little in a

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bolette Skrevet 24-02-2007 kl. 20:20

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Kære Alle

Hvis I interesserer jer for tiden før AGLOCO og Internettets udvikling generelt, så er der et interessant indlæg her.

AGLOCO and pay-to-surf is not a brand new idea. In fact, though different in a few key ways, AGLOCO is the new version of AllAdvantage, a company that, in its less than two years of existence, paid out over $120 million to its members and proved that pay-to-surf could indeed work.

Those of us who remember AllAdvantage remember the fever of that time: people were starting small web-based companies and making millions, sometimes in just weeks. The economy was booming. Stocks were red-hot, and the Internet was changing everything. AllAdvantage was no less revolutionary - you, the user, were going to get your share just for using the Internet. It was a smashing success.

AllAdvantage was launched on March 31, 1999 - the first "infomediary" in which companies and web surfers would mutually benefit. It immediately became tremendously famous. People even covered their cars with advertisements for the company so that all could see. Within little time, AllAdvantage vaulted into the top 20 most visited Internet sites. 10 million members signed up.

The program used the Viewbar, a software application members downloaded from the main site that observed the pages surfed by the user and showed ads related to the content being viewed in the user''s browser. It was the best way for big companies to reach people with direct, relevant offers.

The resounding success of AllAdvantage was also due to the referral system put into place to encourage the spread of the program. Every user got their own personal code that they would use to get referral credits. Each new member referred resulted in a raise in income, and furthermore, the people referred by those referrals would also boost the original member''s income. This was the case up to 5 levels below the original user.

This yielded a nice sum of money for those who took advantage of it. In less than two years, AllAdvantage.com had paid out over $120 million in checks to the loyal users of the program. So why then did AllAdvantage suddenly cease to exist?

The answer has to do with the situation of the tech market in 2000. In those days, everybody had illusions of grandeur about the Internet and e-commerce. A company without any profit to speak of would attract gigantic investments just by existing. Eventually, however, this loony arrangement began to melt once investors started realizing there was nothing upholding the boom. Suddenly, no one dared to invest. At the time, AllAdvantage was about to go public (the IPO was to take place during early 2000) but it was too late. After a market freefall, AllAdvantage was forced to close its doors.

With the advent of AGLOCO, history repeats itself. But then how can we be sure that it will survive this time?

In the year 2000, the Internet was young. Its potential was great, but it was far from mature. There was no precedent with respect to programs like AllAdvantage; everything was done while flying at 10,000 miles per hour. Nobody knew yet what the best way would be to launch an advertising campaign, since there was very little information back then about Internet users'' habits. Nothing was stable or set in stone. Everything was either a huge success or a colossal collapse.

Today is different. There are Internet companies like Google, Wikipedia, IMDB.com (film database) Adobe, etc., that are here to stay. It''s no longer possible to just start up a company and have it become one of the biggest in the world in 2 weeks. Also, keep in mind that throughout the years the Internet has expanded rapidly, such that now the market

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bolette Skrevet 26-02-2007 kl. 22:15

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My Perspective of Agloco, in my dreams....

Imagine...
A business opportunity with a totally revolutionary concept
which potentially will help millions of internet users to get
the share they deserve.

Imagine...
Having your business positioned in the hottest industry -
social communities, that is literally exploding.

Imagine...
Having your business backed by a large Management Team
made up of highly intellectual individuals whose identities and
credentials are fully disclosed.

Imagine...
Being given an opportunity to build a business without any
capital outlay, through a 5-level unilevel referral program.
And the business has the potential to become a public-listed
entity. Your only investment is your time and effort.

Imagine...
Building a business that you yourself is an owner jointly
with all other members. And this business has the potential
to partner with some of the "Big Names" in the list of Fortune
500, Wall Street and Nasdaq.

Imagine...
For the first time in the history of the internet, you, as an
internet user, have the opportunity to "Own The Internet".

Now Imagine...
You''re the only game in town and the town is the entire World.
Today, what we have dreamed, imagined, hoped and prayed for
has, in fact, soon become a reality. And I have the pleasure
of welcoming you to join us in Agloco to write a new chapter in
the Internet History.

Hilsen Bolette

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bolette Skrevet 10-03-2007 kl. 09:32

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Hej Allesammen

Her er en email, som AGLOCO lige har sendt ud til alle medlemmer.

Dear Bolette,

It is now 100 days since AGLOCO went public with its pre-launch plan to become the Internet’s first Economic Network.

Here is a quick progress report to Members:

Continued growth of the AGLOCO network - February was a record month of new Members joining (and last week was a record week)

Several enhancements to the AGLOCO website including a Member blog page http://www.agloco.com/web/guest/blogarticle

Very active company blog site for up to date Member communication http://blog.agloco.com

Viewbar software team (now seven engineers in Shanghai) is making steady progress. - Release of the software will be announced with both an email as well as a notice on the AGLOCO website.

We would like to thank the Members who have already recruited new Members to AGLOCO. We have over 50,000 successful recruiters. If you wish to join this group in building your community, but don’t know where to start, try visiting the AGLOCO referral Center at http://www.agloco.com/web/guest/referralcenter .

Thanks again for being the most valuable part of your company.

Dan Jorgensen
Member Coordinator

Sign-up: http://www.agloco.com/r/BBBG9809

KH.

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bolette Skrevet 16-03-2007 kl. 21:56

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Her er så igen lidt nyheder fra den store verden.

Agloco er siden sidst blevet omtalt i The Economist…

Overskriften er:

Online advertising: New business models let communities of internet users control how their personal information is bought and sold

Jeg citerer her fra artiklen: Yet another example, established by a group of Stanford graduates, is Agloco. “Advertisers, search providers and online retailers are paying billions to reach you while you surf,” says its website. “How much of that money are you getting? You deserve a piece of the action.” Like AttentionTrust, Agloco is based on a browser plug-in that tracks users'' online activity and then uses this information to allow advertisers to target people with specific interests. Agloco promises to return 90% of ad revenue, sales commissions and other income to its users. In a further twist, those who recruit other users get a cut of the revenue, too. Akshay Mavani of Agloco says the firm is on target to sign up 10m users by July.

Hele artiklen kan læses her:

http://globaltechforum.eiu.com/index.asp?layout=rich_story&channelid=3&categoryid=2&doc_id=10273

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