Monday, February 26, 2007

AGLOCO is not a secret CIA project

As I browse the web, I come across a lot of articles, blogs, forums, and webpages about AGLOCO. It’s great to see our community branching out actively, discussing AGLOCO, and spreading the word.

Sometimes, however, I see inaccuracies about AGLOCO.

Some of the headlines are pretty wild, from “AGLOCO is being funded by Bill Gates” to “AGLOCO Will Not Make Money Online! Ever!” With 1.5 million pages showing up from a Google search of AGLOCO there are plenty of different ‘stories’ to find. Just to see how far things have gone, I searched AGLOCO and “Alexander the Great” and found 83 Google results which had both of these on the same page. I hadn’t realized these topics are related.

While I wish I had the time to scour the web and comment on all of these, it would be an overwhelming and never-ending task (with over 100,000 new pages every week). Still, I wanted to take a minute to talk about some of these rumors and clarify them.

Chad Hurley and Bill Gates

We are delighted that both of these men have come out in favor of revenue sharing with Internet users. I mentioned the following in a comment to my last post:

I’d like to quickly clarify some misinformation I’ve been seeing around the web lately regarding Chad Hurley and Bill Gates. In an earlier post, we referred to public statements they have made in support of revenue sharing, indicating that the AGLOCO concept (basically all about revenue sharing) is on the right track. Some folks seem to be erroneously claiming that Hurley and Gates have made public statements directly about AGLOCO (rather than the revenue sharing concept AGLOCO promotes), which is false.

If you hear this error of fact or see it around the web, please help us clarify it.

While I am sure AGLOCO’s success will someday draw direct statements from these two business leaders, it hasn’t happened yet

Member Calculator

I will say this once more: The units for the Member Calculator are not in US Dollars. The calculator lists monthly accumulated hours one can earn.

The Member Calculator is meant to be a tool that helps Members realize how their Monthly earnings can quickly grow with just a few active referrals. It cannot, and does not, offer a concrete dollar value. This dollar value is dependent on many factors, such as the average revenue generated per Member and the size of the Member base.

Offering a pre-determined fixed rate for hourly surfing is the biggest mistake AllAdvantage made, as that business model proved unsustainable when the dot-com bubble burst. By calibrating Member payouts to profitability, AGLOCO can avoid making this mistake again. Unfortunately, that also means that right now it’s hard to say exactly how much Members will earn.

We are excited by the reception AGLOCO has gotten in its pre-launch phase. With over 1.5 million pages written about AGLOCO in the last 10 weeks, there are bound to be both positive and negative exaggerations. Despite our best efforts, this will likely be true for the next 1.5 million pages as well, though we will try to occasionally address some of them in this blog.

Again, please help us correct these errors if you hear them from others or see them around the web.

Brian Greenwald
AGLOCO Development Team

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