Waiting for the ViewBar

I have just got word from our Shanghai based tech team with an update on the Viewbar status. Most of the QA tests are going well with the exception of the ad servers. The team is currently integrating the Viewbar with the ad servers so that the Viewbar will have ads (and revenue) ready to go when it launches (it would not make too much sense to release a Viewbar that was not making any money). So, while the Viewbar is still on track for release this month, making the April 2nd to 16th window is getting more difficult – and, yes, the Shanghai team has been working seven days a week for quite a while now and will continue to do so until the Viewbar is released.

There is some good Viewbar news for most of you. As I mentioned in my last post, we are initially releasing about 50,000 Viewbars to those Members that signed up first. Our current plan is to release another 50,000 Viewbars every day until every pre-launch Member has a Viewbar (which means all Members should have their Viewbar within the first 10 – 11 days). This should alleviate some of the fears Members have expressed that they might have to wait weeks or months for their Viewbar. We recognize that there have been delays on the front end of the release, so we are trying to tighten up the back end of the release as much as possible.

Also, as some Members have correctly pointed out, AGLOCO’s early revenue will not immediately translate into cash distributions to Members. While we do not know how large our initial revenue will be, we do know that AGLOCO has operating costs to pay. It is important to remember that AGLOCO is not a “get rich quick scheme”, and we maintain that the most prudent way to build AGLOCO as a sustainable company is to calibrate Member distributions to company earnings. As such, the cash payouts will not begin until there is a comfortable balance between AGLOCO’s free cash flow and AGLOCO’s expenses. It is important to add that all Members will begin to accumulate hours from when they first start using the Viewbar (and referral hours will also be earned). Those hours will not be wasted. Both overall hours and monthly hours will be used in determining distributions to Members.

I’ll keep you posted as relevant updates continue to come up.

Brian Greenwald
AGLOCO Development Team

Interesting site of the day: Well, this morning I read the most interesting site of the day for me. It was two comments on my last post written by David North. I have put them at the bottom of this post for easy access, but I also wanted to add that while some of the ‘chatter’ that gets in the comment section of this blog is not meaningful, many of the thoughts expressed there do register and do help shape the priorities and progress of AGLOCO. With hundereds of thousands of AGLOCO Members thinking about how to improve the company, AGLOCO should avoid the trap some companies hit when only ‘insiders’ do the thinking. And this should only grow stronger with time when the Viewbar is released and the number of AGLOCO Members moves into the millions. Here are David’s posts:

David North said,
April 11, 2007 @ 5:56 am

Hi Saket,

Don’t forget that you ARE putting something into AGLOCO, it just doesn’t happen to be cash. You are providing AGLOCO a free billboard on your computer screen and helping AGLOCO locate other free billboards on others’ computer screens. You are essentially a service provider to AGLOCO, supplying space in front of eyes. In that regard, you are no different than Google’s service providers, webmasters that give Google free space in their web sites to display ads. Google in turn monetizes that space in front of eyes (similarly to what AGLOCO will do) and pays the webmaster a portion of the money. In fact, Google pays many millions of dollars to webmasters every month, and makes a nice profit doing so.

There is another similarity between Google and AGLOCO that is worth noting. Google’s naysayers are many. Many of Google’s naysayers are smart people who have very valid concerns about Google’s ability to sustain its momentum, among other things. The presence of Google naysayers, and some of what they had to say, helped me decide how much risk I was willing to take investing in Google, as both a service provider to - and stockholder of Google.

David North said,
April 11, 2007 @ 6:29 am

Hi Volin,

With opportunity generally comes risk. The 2005 hurricane season was the most costly ever for big insurance companies, who racked up many billions of dollars in underwriting losses. What’s more, scientists, global warming activists and others were predicting it would only get worse. Nearly all insurance companies reduced their exposure to hurricane-prone regions, but Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway increased its exposure to hurricane prone regions. Many analysts (none of whom have amassed $40 billion personal net worth) thought Buffett (who has amassed $40 billion personal net worth) was nuts. And when the 2006 hurricane season was unusually mild, Berkshire Hathaway posted the largest annual book value increase of any company ever, thanks to record insurance underwriting profits. You can find Berkshire Hathaway’s annual reports for 2005 and 2006 at www.berkshirehathaway.com to see for yourself that Buffett did weigh seriously the predictions of scientists and others regarding future hurricane risks. Then he made a rational decision about the risk and reward potential of insuring hurricane-related damages.

What does Warren Buffett and insurance have to do with AGLOCO? AGLOCO represents an opportunity that comes with risks. Make an honest effort to understand both the opportunity and the risks, THEN make your decision about how much or how little effort to invest in AGLOCO, and you’ll be doing just what one of the world’s wealthiest people has done all his life to get to where he is.

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Free is too expensive... Own the Internet!

This is AGLOCO™ 's proposition, just three words: Own the Internet.Whenever you are online, either surfing, blogging, clicking on an ad, making a purchase, all the money generated by your activities is pocketed by a small number of players. At AGLOCO™ they say not anymore!

AGLOCO™ is a global community, whose owners are its Members (you and potentially the millions of internet users out there). Their goal is to capture a significant portion of the value generated by our online activities and return it to Members in cash. Best of all, it is totally free, Members will NEVER have to pay anything, nor will they have to disclose ANY personal information!

How does this work? Once you sign up on their website, when available you will be able to download the Viewbar software, a free toolbar-sized application (half the size of a traditional Windows tool bar) that quietly sits on your desktop without ever hampering your online habits. That’s all you need to do! Just continue using the Internet as you used to… no need to change your habits!Do you have several individuals using one computer? You can have different AGLOCO™ viewbars to fit the profile of each user.Don’t want to see or use the Viewbar at any given time? Just minimize it and the Viewbar stops working!There are different ways AGLOCO™ can make money for its Members:
Cash: You get cash by surfing the Internet while the Viewbar is running. AGLOCO™ ’s profits are distributed back to its Members. And you can also receive real-time discounts should you choose to purchase from AGLOCO™ ’s partners. They will never include gambling or adult entertainment sites as partners.
Shares: In addition to cash, AGLOCO™ will give out shares in the company to its Members. Eventually, AGLOCO™ plans to go public and will be traded on the London Stock Exchange AIM. You can start earning stock options by keeping Viewbar active while you surf. In addition, you will gain extra shares by referring active users to AGLOCO™ (they lose nothing). Click here to see the calculator.The more people join AGLOCO™ , the more value the community can generate for itself. The company believes those that build the community deserve more: your own profits become larger the more people you refer. You can accumulate hours not only from your Internet activity but also from those who you refer, and their referrals too… Up to 5 levels underneath you! For example, if you refer 10 people and all of them refer 5 people each, you could make over 7000 shares a month*!Remember, this is all free, you don’t lose anything, all you have to do is sign up, download the Viewbar and that’s it. Build your network and refer friends, family and colleagues to AGLOCO™ and earn even more!The guys behind this idea include several Stanford MBA’s and a few individuals who started AllAdvantage back in 1998, which gave over $100 million to its users before falling victim to the burst of the internet bubble. Today, the context is much more favorable: The sophistication of on-line commerce, the rapid emergence of communities, the wealth of advertising revenue sources, etc. Isn’t it time you got your share of the Internet?Don't wait any longer. This is a win-win opportunity, and you’ll make it even more profitable for yourself when you start referring friends and relatives before others get to them! Since I assume you learned about AGLOCO™ thanks to my website*, please don’t forget to add my referee ID when signing up: AGLO-0014.

Click here to sign up directly!* If you heard about AGLOCO™ from someone else please click here to sign up and add their reference number.

Garuda Case: Aircraft In Fact Landed Too Fast

TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: The National Committee for Transportation Safety (KNKT) has acknowledged that during the landing process, the speed of Garuda Indonesia's GA-200 aircraft, which caught fire in Yogyakarta in early March, was too high. Mardjono Siswo Suwarno, Head of the KNKT Investigation Team for the Garuda accident, said that according to data from the black box, during the landing the aircraft's speed was 230 knots or equivalent to 425.5 kilometer per hour. Such a speed is almost twice of the normal limit 140 knots or 295 kilometers per hour. �Too fast,� he said in Jakarta yesterday (8/4), adding that landing at such a very high speed could cause damage to the aircraft structure. The Garuda's GA-200 Boeing 737-400 overshot the runway when it landed at Adisutjipto Airport, Yogyakarta, on March 7. The aircraft then caught fire and this resulted in the deaths of 21 out of 131 passengers. The statement was made in response to reports in Australia's Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) last Saturday, that the Garuda landed at twice the normal speed. When touching the ground, the speed was 410 kilometers per hour, almost twice the recommended speed of 250 kilometers per hour, despite the runway length being limited.However, Mardjono emphasized that KNKT has not yet been able to conclude that this was the cause of the Garuda accident. The team must still investigate the data further. The investigation will cover not only the technical aspects but also the situation when the aircraft was flying as well as the condition of the pilot and co-pilot. �There will be urine and psychological tests,� he said.Regarding the cause of the accident, Australia's television station Nine Network did report there were arguments between the pilot and the co-pilot when the aircraft was about to land. However SMH has stated there was no evidence of the arguments. Nonetheless the newspaper said that the pilot had reported an error in the reverse thrust of one of the aircraft's engines before the aircraft took off. In its report, SMH also accused Transportation Minister Hatta Rajasa of deliberately not releasing the results of investigation into the Garuda accident because he was afraid of the claims from the victims' families in Australia. To Koran Tempo, yesterday, Hatta denied the accusation and stressed that the investigation was not yet over. When it was over, he said, everything will be conveyed in a transparent manner.