I just received an email from AGLOCO telling their members that the Viewbar will be released soon. This is the first time I write my thoughts about this …mmm what should I call it. Here are some thought from the mail:

Members will be invited to download in groups of 50,000 a day for a two week period, with Members contacted in the order in which they signed up

Don’t these guys have the means to get strong enough servers to serve their Viewbar to everyone at the same time? Why extend such process over 2 weeks? So the Viewbar will be out and some will be earning, but I would still have to wait…

Shortly before the first set of download emails go out, you will receive an email notice that the AGLOCO website will be ‘out of service’ for a few hours – this is necessary for us to move the Viewbar download system from the test server to the main servers.

You have got to be kidding me. Your site needs to go down to put a download system in place? For a couple of hours? Hmm, maybe it would be easier to put the download system on different servers and link the website to the other servers. Why? Because this way your website does not have to go down and IF your download system somehow affects the servers, it won’t affect your main website.

You will accrue hours in your AGLOCO Member account (current maximum is five direct hours a month)

All this commotion for just 5 hours a month… My next question: What will I earn with those 5 hours of serving?

The initial Viewbar release will be for Windows Vista, XP, 2000 Pro and 2000 Server. Later, we will release Mac and Linux versions of the Viewbar.

I didn’t expect it to be different! If their last release period was set at somewhere between April 2 and 16, and after that they still claimed that they were on track to release in April, then I don’t even want to know when this Viewbar will be available for Mac and Linux users.

To be a sustainable entity in the long term, AGLOCO makes Member cash distributions from its positive cash flow (revenue minus costs). Therefore, please do not expect a check after the first couple of months as it will take time to collect revenue from advertisers and this revenue must exceed costs in order to make cash distributions to Members

In other words “We started a company and we invite you to come work for us. However, we will start paying you when we make enough money to pay our own salaries (I’m guessing those will definitely be counted in the ‘costs’). So after we’ve managed to take care of the costs (and our own salaries) we’ll share the remainder with the millions of workers”. Very promising. After spending so much time on the promotion of a product that is still due for launch, it’s still trial and error if it comes to making money. What happens if the revenues of the first 3 months are not what they were expecting? Can we then expect a mail saying that “it didn’t work out” so we get nothing?

Oh and they add the following to that paragraph:

We will be keeping Members informed of our financials

Conclusion
AGLOCO may become a great company, providing people a way to make money while browsing the Internet, but with everything that’s going on before the actual release of the program, I’m starting to wonder how much more delays will occur, mainly in payment. What surprises await everyone when this program really is launched? We will only know once the AGLOCO Viewbar is finally launched, preferably this year.

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