AGLOCO Update

I have now been surfing for a few days with the new AGLOCO Viewbar at the bottom of my computer screen. It is very simple – just sign in every day and there it is. A little circle on the left hand side indicates whether you are accumulating hours for credit (green), or not (red).

If you are actively surfing the Internet, your hours are being logged to your account. The AGLOCO Viewbar FAQ says you might need to give it a couple of minutes when you first connect, but I have found that my green light usually has been going on immediately when I go on the Internet. And, I have noticed that it stays on for a while after closing the Internet.

Credit for the time is not an issue at all. After just a few days, I see by checking my AGLOCO account, that I have already accumulated five hours credit. And that means I have already reached the maximum for the month, and there are still three weeks to go in June! (It appears that AGLOCO may be overwhelmed with success right now - too frequently one cannot get on to their website. Time to upgrade to meet the demand.)

Is this going to be a problem for AGLOCO – with such a low maximum number of hours, then people will simply stop using the Viewbar when they've already received the maximum for the month? After all, the Viewbar does take up a bit of space. But it is hardly any bother. AGLOCO is set up so that both AGLOCO and its member-owners benefit by hours of use. Why not encourage members to accumulate as many hours as possible?

Some speculate that AGLOCO is still trying to differentiate itself from AllAdvantage. That company flew high like Icarus before crashing and burning during the dot com bubble era. AllAdvantage had a maximum of 20 hours per month.

Five hours sounds easy to get, and is attractive for new AGLOCO members. But why not make that a minimum instead of a maximum, and let members who are eager Internet surfers get more hours credit?

If you would like to know more about AGLOCO (“Get your share of the Internet”), you can check out my earlier post, or click on my referral link to AGLOCO.