What is AGLOCO?
I like entrepreneurship - it's the engine that drives a free society. As such, I've written about one form of it before, elsewhere, about how your opinions matter to businesses, so much so that you can be paid to give your opinions to them, rather than volunteering the information for free.

Your surfing habits are much the same thing: information about your preferences is easily collected and used to vastly increase the profits of various companies. Sometimes this goes on with your knowledge and consent, and sometimes not. In either case, it happens without you receiving any of the benefits to be had from this information - your information.

A company called AGLOCO is going to change everything.

AGLOCO is short for "A Global Community." The founders of this company plan to do just that, create a global community of users. The purpose of this community, in short, is to make money. Most - if not all - online global communities already do this, but, for the most part, the money is not put into the hands of the community members, but only into the hands of those who own the infrastructure of the community.

AGLOCO is different. Since the time spent online by individuals is valuable - because the information about how one uses the internet is in and of itself something that people will pay to get - AGLOCO will return some of that value to the individual user. They do this because they think that if online communities have monetary value, and because the people who populate such communities make the communities in the first place, then those people ought to receive some of the value of the communities they make possible. It's an idea that makes a lot of sense.

But here's the really cool part: it isn't just cash that AGLOCO users will receive for their time. AGLOCO users will also, eventually, receive publicly traded shares in the company, representing real ownership of the company. The cash one could receive is good enough, but the potential for ownership and future appreciate of share values makes this a unique opportunity. As the AGLOCO community grows, the company will generate more revenue, meaning the potential for increased shareholder value is strong. Since it costs nothing to become an AGLOCO member, this is indeed a very worthwhile investment of one's time, time already spent online (which, before now, only made someone else rich).

It works like this: at the time of this writing, the AGLOCO browser bar is not yet released, but the company is allowing people to build up the AGLOCO community in advance. When the browser bar is released, an AGLOCO member can install it and receive credit for time spent surfing the internet. Acoording to AGLOCO, there is no need to click on any advertising links that the bar will display, and no need to surf in any particular way to accumulate credit. A user can do exactly what he or she always does online, be it the most rigid surfing routine or the most random. You still get to do with the internet what you've always done with it, or whatever else you want to do with it.

I'm already a member of this potentially very valuable endeavor, and I'm looking forward to watching it grow.

Join now : http://www.agloco.com/r/bbbs8232
Thai version : http://www.aglocothailand.com

Hmmm, 1st post eh?

Quote: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