Agloco going under, to no longer pay you to search the web
Agloco, the pyramid scheme company that said it would pay you to surf the web, has run out of money and is about to close. The company sent a notice to its members earlier today notifying them that if someone wanted to swoop in in to save it, now is the time.
The controversial site awarded you shares for surfing the Web and signing up other people to do the same.
It is a pyramid because you… Continue Reading
Roundup: Google’s camera, Algoco, SpaceTime’s 3D search, Trivop and more
(updated) Here’s the latest action:
Google’s Street View continued — More details from BoingBoing on the scary little 11-sided camera that Google and its partner are using for street-level photography shots — exposing peoples’ living rooms — including tabby cats — sunbathers in their bikinis, and some poor guy caught picking his nose.
Yahoo provides open access to its “Panama” search marketing APIs — Yahoo launches its “Commercial API,” so advertisers, developers and commercial partners will be able to… Continue Reading
Agloco, the Web 2.0 pyramid company, to release Viewbar
Agloco, the company that pledges to pay you for surfing the Web, is about to deliver the download that will let you start earning credit.
The Stanford, Calif. company is leading wave of new pyramid-like companies seeking to arbitrage advertising dollars on the Web. By banding together some 700,000 people who have signed up for its service, Agloco believes it can wring out greater advertising dollars on their behalf. As it tracks the pages surfed by… Continue Reading
The Web 2.0 pyramids: Agloco, eMax and KushCash
Each Internet boom creates its batch of pyramid-like schemes. They cater to the lust for easy returns dominant in euphoric times.
That’s not to say they’re fraudulent. Most of these schemes are plausible on their face, and that’s their allure — and what one person believes is sham, another takes as a golden opportunity. This latest boom has given rise to a number of more innovative business models, which so far have skirted around scam, and… Continue Reading
EMax, another way to make you rich on the Web, or just a prank?
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EMax says it is a new startup in Palo Alto, Calif. launched this week by “a bunch of ex-marketing guys from PayPal,” according to a tipster. It looks like another company that promises to make you rich off the Web, if you jump on its bandwagon early.
However, there’s something fishy about it, and it may be a prank. The tipster, named “Max Levchin,” used the name of the PayPal co-founder. However, the tipster used poor… Continue Reading
AGLOCO signs up tens of thousands, and hasn’t even released Viewbar
AGLOCO, the controversial site that awards you shares for surfing the Web and signing up other people to do the same, boasts that it has already signed up “tens of thousands” of members.
More striking, the company hasn’t even released its Viewbar yet, which you have to download to start earning credit with AGLOCO. Some would call the company a pyramid scheme, because AGLOCO gives you an incentive to sign up your friends to also surf… Continue Reading
AGLOCO goes live — but when calculating your riches, check fine print
After some delay, and server problems, AGLOCO is now open for business.
We wrote about the service here. It is controversial because it promises to pay you to surf the Web.
VentureBeat has just signed up, deciding that we’ll give it a whirl and see if it works. We don’t mind sharing basic personal information AGLOCO asks for, because it’s the same many other sites require– and AGLOCO has promised not to pass it on.
We went to… Continue Reading
AGLOCO launches — will pay you to surf the Web
(See our update on this story here.)
AGLOCO is a controversial new Stanford-based start-up that wants to pay you to surf the Web, in return for access to your online surfing information. It launches later today (Monday).
It was discovered two weeks ago by Gigaom, which blasted it as a pyramid scheme. It is, Gigaom reported, a reincarnation of the bubble-era AllAdvantage, which PC World at the time said was one the worst sites on the Internet…. Continue Reading