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4th December 2006 From Official Agloco Blog http://aglocoblog.blogspot.com -----------------------------------
When we conceived AGLOCO, we felt that one of the great things about the structure was that it rewarded the entrepreneurial users in addition to the entrepreneurial workers in the company.
First, after two weeks, on behalf of the development team, we want to thank all of you who have signed up as new Members, especially all of you who have put yourselves out and referred your friends and contacts to join us. We also want to thank those of you who have pointed out some of our errors and who have given ideas for improvements we can make. When we conceived AGLOCO, we felt that one of the great things about the structure was that it rewarded the entrepreneurial users in addition to the entrepreneurial workers in the company.
First, after two weeks, on behalf of the development team, we want to thank all of you who have signed up as new Members, especially all of you who have put yourselves out and referred your friends and contacts to join us. We also want to thank those of you who have pointed out some of our errors and who have given ideas for improvements we can make.
We know that it can be tough to deal with a company at its very early stages. To the extent possible, we will endeavor to make sure early Members who promoted AGLOCO during this beta period receive the extra reward they deserve (in this way we hope AGLOCO will be different from YouTube, MySpace and even Google whose early users put up with a lot of malfunctions, promoted the service to their friends and watched on the sidelines as the founders and venture capitalists made hundreds of millions of dollars.)
We plan to send out an update email to all AGLOCO Members in the next few days (we do not want to send out too many emails to Members as they did not sign up to get ‘spammed’ by us.) In it, we will give some facts on the kind of activity on the Internet AGLOCO Members have built. They will include some facts like:
1. On Alexa.com, AGLOCO is currently ranked as the 2,235 most popular website on the Internet.
2. A search of AGLOCO on Google results in over 390,000 page results (AGLOCO was a ‘made up’ word with less than 200 results when the website launched)
These are amazing statistics for a website that is 13 days old today. And both of these stats are due mainly to the efforts of AGLOCO Members to promote Membership in AGLOCO.
This immense interest does put extra pressure on the AGLOCO development team and the system we put together.
It also points to the popularity of an economic network - people are interested, they want to join and they want to help build it.
For comparison on just the Alexa popularity ranking – AGLOCO made it to #2,235 in two weeks – it took Wikipedia two years to reach the same level of popularity, Facebook took nine months, YouTube took eight months and even MySpace took three months to hit this same level.
So congratulations to the AGLOCO Members for their efforts, we hope to move forward in the next months to make the AGLOCO economic network, the Internet icon the Members deserve.
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29th November 2006
From Official Agloco Blog
http://aglocoblog.blogspot.com
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Saw this post on a Members blog recently: > ---------------
> AGLOCO is so much fun...
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> This is so much fun. It is almost addictive. Every 30 minutes or so, I go to my AGLOCO account page and check my referrals. I got 4 directs and almost 500 extended so far today. That gives me 2,500 in total. If it keeps growing at this rate I will be over 5,000 by Sunday.
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> It is pretty cool to think that I helped 5,000 people get involved with AGLOCO.
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> As usual - I checked my favorite blogs - they are now silent on AGLOCO - I wonder how many signups the VentureBeat guy has? Oh well that is OK. The bigger the network gets the stronger it becomes and every Member wins.
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> Its nice to see Members excited about wanting to grow the community. The larger the AGLOCO network the stronger the company becomes.
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> Thanks to all our Members so far! We are growing strongly and we are glad that you are enjoying the process.
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> The AGLOCO Team
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21st November 2006
From Official Agloco Blog http://aglocoblog.blogspot.com ----------------------------------- There has been some confusion about how to set up the referral link.
To send a link that includes your referral id, you should type it as follows:
www.agloco.com/r/MEMBERID
so for example of your ID was BBBB1234 the link that you can send to others to sign up with would be
www.agloco.com/r/bbbb1234 Several Members have asked us where they can download the Viewbar.
The Viewbar is currently in limited beta testing. Once final testing is completed, we will make it available for all our Members to download. The Beta testers are all volunteers and are not earning any revenue for trying out the system.
In the meantime, you as an early Member can continue to recruit new Members and start building out your network. As an early Member , you have the best chance to recruit your friends since they will not yet have been approached.
As the AGLOCO Membership expands some of your friends will sign up under other people and no longer be able to be recruited. So seize this opportunity to reach out to all your friends and build your network... Launching in English and Chinese was an aggressive target, but certainly worth it. Comments have been coming in and some of the members that know the founding team have been calling in to say congratulations.
Thanks to all that sent in their well wishes, notes of encouragement and comments. We appreciate your support. Posted by AGLOCO Official |
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21st November 2006
From Official Agloco Blog http://aglocoblog.blogspot.com ----------------------------------- We are particularly excited that as A GLObal COmmunity we launched with the full site in English and Chinese (including the Member sign up database). We wanted to launch in ten languages, but with Member Services needs and startup resources we need to wait a bit before we can do it.
There has been a lot of blogging about AGLOCO prior to our launch – and as often happens when people are early (sometimes too early) they spread misinformation. Here are a few issues we would like to address:
Privacy – let's put this straight – AGLOCO has one of the strictest privacy policies on the Internet – certainly more restrictive than other online giants.Excitement here is high as the AGLOCO website was rolled out for public access today.
We are particularly excited that as A GLObal COmmunity we launched with the full site in English and Chinese (including the Member sign up database). We wanted to launch in ten languages, but with Member Services needs and startup resources we need to wait a bit before we can do it.
There has been a lot of blogging about AGLOCO prior to our launch – and as often happens when people are early (sometimes too early) they spread misinformation. Here are a few issues we would like to address:
Privacy – let's put this straight – AGLOCO has one of the strictest privacy policies on the Internet – certainly more restrictive than other online giants.
AGLOCO NEVER gives any information on any Member to anyone - that means NO information at any time -except if required by law. All information sent between the Viewbar on Member computers and ALGOCO servers on the Internet is encrypted, so it can go through the companies who provide Internet services (like your ISP) securely.
Our signup ONLY asks for Member name, email address, residence (city, country and postal code) and age (for legal reasons). In fact, this is nothing more than most other websites to which you have to sign up in order to access their services.
Pyramid – Another big misconception we have seen over the last few days.
Pyramid schemes are where people (at the bottom) pay money to join, and this money goes to the people who referred them (those at the top). Wikipedia has a nice description. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_scheme
AGLOCO is NOT a pyramid scheme for the following simple reasons:
* No Member ever pays AGLOCO (or any other Member) any money at any time.
* AGLOCO is the opposite of a pyramid scheme, since we pay out money to all active Members.
* All Members earn distributions at the same rate no matter when they joined. Members who refer new Members can earn more for building out the AGLOCO network. And we do use a multilevel system for this reward.
It’s your company. Own it. Let’s build A GLObal Community!
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19th November 2006
From Official Agloco Blog http://aglocoblog.blogspot.com -----------------------------------
Welcome to your company blog.
We have been working on this for the past several months, yet it’s really a simple idea …
You search, you click on an ad, you post a video, you make a purchase online…all these activities generate money for someone - just not you. Sure, you get the service of a search engine or free online system, the availability of an ad or the purchase of an item you wanted. But each time you are online, someone is selling an ad, making a commission or just taking your information – either specific details which you provided (knowingly or not) or just your IP address will do - and using it to make money, all this with varying degrees of privacy. We are not saying that profitable online businesses should be scolded, or that successful individuals should return all the money they have made. No, we are simply saying you as an individual user should get back some of the value you helped generate. It’s only fair. At AGLOCO, we will NEVER disclose any personal information. We will NEVER ask you to pay anything. And no, this is not a huge spamming exercise. We will NEVER spam our users in any way. That’s right, no pop-ups, flash-ups, unwanted email…whatever you want to call it, there will be NO spamming. We could not be clearer. And if an individual user tries to spam to recruit new members, then he or she risks seeing their membership cancelled. So what have you got to lose? Nothing really. We are not asking you to change anything you already do. But if we are big enough – and we will be - then we create a formidable online consumer network, one which all companies which do business on the internet will want to talk to. This time though, whatever they pay to have access to you or have you use their services, you get your share of the money generated. It’s your company. Own it. The bigger we become, the more influential a player we will be online. That’s why we encourage you to sign up your friends and family. You get a bigger share of the company for doing so, and they will too. So what are you waiting for? Let’s build A GLObal COmmunity! Please tell us know what you think – AGLOCO is a member owned and member driven company. Your management team Posted by AGLOCO Official
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10th December 2006
From Official Agloco Blog http://aglocoblog.blogspot.com ----------------------------------- AGLOCO crossed half a million hits on google recently. In three weeks that is a lot of people talking about a new topic – AGLOCO.
We are excited by the attention and now with tens of thousands of new Members we hope to fulfill the promise of the company.
While over 95% of the pages about AGLOCO are supportive there are a number of claims about us that are not true.
• AGLOCO is not a get rich quick site (it will take a long time and hard work to make AGLOCO as valuable as it should be – there are over 50 people listed on the AGLOCO team page as people who have been working on AGLOCO, some for over a year). See http://www.agloco.com/web/guest/aboutus • AGLOCO is not a new search engine nor is it a new ad network (the company will try hard to leverage existing companies whenever possible and not create new software or new communities for Members to use – Members should continue to use the Internet as they normally would.)
• AGLOCO is not creating spyware nor an intrusion on Members privacy (Member data is only looked at with informed permission of each individual Member; data is used by AGLOCO only to provide services to Members and is not disclosed; and Member data is destroyed if a Member ever chooses to leave AGLOCO). Privacy pages http://www.agloco.com/web/guest/privacy
But what we do stand for is a revolution in favor of the Internet user.
We put ten points about our Vision on the AGLOCO site on launch day. We think they all can be helpful in understanding what AGLOCO is trying to achieve. Here is one of them.
The AGLOCO Vision #1: Free is too Expensive
Much of Web 2.0 has been about Internet companies building a simple service and then getting users to do much of the work on it (including telling all their friends about it). Once the service is popular, the founders and venture capitalists make a deal to sell it for millions (and billions) of dollars. The users who helped build it (especially the early users who often put up with clunky software and weak websites) just watch.
When we looked at this system, we saw a bad price. Sometimes free is not enough.
We designed AGLOCO to reward all Members who join and with the referral system we designed it to give an extra reward to the Members who help build it.
In designing what AGLOCO would be, we felt starting just a specific service (like videos or music or blogging) would not go far enough. So we designed AGLOCO to be a platform for many kinds of services. On our website we cite easy examples of services to monetize for Members like search and advertising, many more exist.
Global companies start with a grand vision, but they start small. We first started working on AGLOCO out of our houses and apartments…We know our Members are keen to learn more about AGLOCO and we shall endeavor to communicate as soon as we strategically are able.
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