Like most skeptics, I did a lot of reading before jumping onto the AGLOCO bandwagon and the bottom line is I lose nothing for joining what a lot of credible people reckon is a genuine deal by a reputable company.

For those who don't know about AGLOCO, it is a Viewbar (slated for launch sometime in March but you can sign up first and start referring your friends, the more the merrier) you install on your browser which shows advertisements while you surf. This is not the Alexa toolbar of the '90s which had spyware in it. AGLOCO is free from spyware, spam, and pop-ups and they're very strict about privacy. "Bulletproof privacy" is their mantra.

You can make money in 2 ways from AGLOCO:

1. Refer your friends to use the Viewbar for a maximum of 5 hours daily. The more friends in your network, the more you receive.

2. Use the Viewbar yourself of up to a maximum 5 hours daily.

Best results are from the combination of 1 and 2.

How and why does AGLOCO make money to give it to us?

In summary, Brain Greenwald from the AGLOCO development team says: "Essentially, it (the Viewbar) collects on your behalf some of the revenue you would usually generate for other people while you conduct your everyday browsing. Then, it returns most of this money to you."

Here's how I break it down:

1. They sell advertising on the Viewbar we install on our browsers.
2. They take 10% and give us 90%.
3. With the Viewbars installed, they can assure their advertisers of guaranteed views.

To quote myself, "we the masses are generating the volume for the advertisements and AGLOCO is paying us the 90%, which is a fair deal".

What do I do now?

Join my AGLOCO network and start building your own. :) Feel free to drop me a note if I can help in any way. Let's start making money together.

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What is Web 2.0? According to Wikipedia:

... the phrase "Web 2.0" hints at an improved form of the World Wide Web; and advocates suggest that technologies such as weblogs, social bookmarking, wikis, podcasts, RSS feeds (and other forms of many-to-many publishing), social software, Web APIs, Web standards and online Web services imply a significant change in web usage.

A Web 2.0 website may typically feature a number of the following techniques:

• Rich Internet application techniques, optionally Ajax-based
  
• CSS
  
• Semantically valid XHTML markup and the use of Microformats
  
• Syndication and aggregation of data in RSS/Atom
  
• Clean and meaningful URLs
  
• Extensive use of folksonomies (in the form of tags or tagclouds, for example)
  
• Use of wiki software either completely or partially (where partial use may grow to become the complete platform for the site)
  
• Weblog publishing
  
• Mashups
  
• REST or XML Webservice APIs

Welcome to a new stage of evolution. We're getting more connected, whether you're ready or not.

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1. First create your desired image 16x16px in any image editor and save it as a gif, jpg, png, or ico file.

2. Upload it into your root folder.

3. Insert this code between your head tags.

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://example.com/myimage.gif" type="image/x-icon">
<link rel="icon" href="http://example.com/myimage.gif" type="image/x-icon">
4. Save and reload. Your icon should appear next to your address bar now!

(Source: Wikipedia)

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