Who remembers AllAdvantage?

[giza]

For those who were around back in 1999 or so, AllAdvantage was a company that provided a toolbar for its users to download, and then paid them for time spent surfing. It was a cool idea, but it suffered from a few problems. One problem was spammers, as well as fraud. That cost the company both money and hurt their reputation. The second problem was that it was a little ahead of its time. In today's Internet, online social groups and networks are much more common, and better understood by the average user.

Enter the newest idea, based on a similar concept: Agloco, which stands for "A GLObal COmmunity". Some of the people who work there the original group from AllAdvantage, and are familliar with the sorts of issues that they will encounter as the service picks up steam.

According to their blog, they are being up front with all of the important issues. Issues such as:

- They do not give out member information, unless required by law.

- They will not use popups or spam, nor will they tolerate members who spam. Seeing that they have Ray Everett-Church on board, I'm inclined to believe this.

- The maximum number of hours you can get paid for per month is 5. This should help cut down on people trying to use programs to "fake" their websurfing while they are not at the keyboard.


There is also the community aspect. They will be giving 100% of their stock to members. This is presumably to get more people involved and interested in the overall health of the company, as opposed to merely "getting paid to surf".

Their viewbar can be downloaded from here.

If you are interested in joining please click here to sign up.

If anyone has questions, please let me know. My understanding is that they are still tweaking things on their end. :-)

Comments

[wildw0lf.livejournal.com]

I actually used it back in the day...however, now if they only were to pay you for five hours, I'm not sure if it would be worth it - what would be the purpose of having the bar displayed after hour five?

[giza.livejournal.com]

I dunno, maybe people find the bar... useful? :-P

The other way to earn money through the service is by referring people. They'll pay you for referring people. (this also makes the system viral, a key component nowadays)

Now, I became nervous when I first saw that, but according to their blog, what differentiates them from a MLM setup is that they company is paying you money for people you refer, whereas in an MLM, your money comes from the revenue that those you referred made.

[furahi.livejournal.com]

How come you always find out about these things? ;)

[giza.livejournal.com]

Social networking, specifically in the computer industry. I have friends who have friends who know people, etc. This is the big payoff behind some of my volunteer activities.

Reading Slashdot regularly doesn't hurt, either. :-)

[furahi.livejournal.com]

I remember I used to find out about stuff when I had an RSS applet in my KDE Kicker with Slashdot on it, right ^^

[giza.livejournal.com]

Google's personal homepage has built-in RSS feeds.

Though I'll understand if M$ wants you to smoke the company dope. ;-)

[furahi.livejournal.com]

Well, KDE (Linux really) is a lot more frowned upon than Google, I've been told by someone there to use google to look for answers to some problems, in response to me telling him I was trying msn/live search ;)

Of course I'll deny I've ever said this if asked "on the record" =P

[streakthetiger.livejournal.com]

Hehehe, I still don`t get it. But that`s cool I guess. ^..^