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A few days ago, I created an account at AGLOCO. According to their site:

AGLOCO™is the first Internet based economic network, which enables you as a Member to ‘Get your share of the internet.’ Advertisers, search companies, online merchants and other businesses currently pay lots of companies to deliver people like you to them to get your attention and sell goods. With AGLOCO™they will be paying YOU. AGLOCO™ is also a global community of Internet users whose active Members can be paid for all their online activity. By downloading our proprietary Viewbar™ technology, members benefit from engaging yet unobtrusive content tailored to their interests. AGLOCO™ also pays its members to refer their friends to the community (and for those friends to refer more friends through four levels of extended referrals.) I am a little skeptical about the future success of algoco, but it can also become the next big internet boom, so I decided to give it a try.I am a little skeptical about the future success of algoco, but it can also become the next big internet boom, so I decided to give it a try.AGLOCO is actually a MLM system, where you get paid for your referrals and their referrals. The more people you signup under you the more money you can make.I am a little skeptical about the future success of algoco, but it can also become the next big internet boom, so I decided to give it a try.AGLOCO is actually a MLM system, where you get paid for your referrals and their referrals. The more people you signup under you the more money you can make.How do you earn cash and shares?

I am a little skeptical about the future success of algoco, but it can also become the next big internet boom, so I decided to give it a try.AGLOCO is actually a MLM system, where you get paid for your referrals and their referrals. The more people you signup under you the more money you can make.How do you earn cash and shares?Sign up, use the web as usual and earn cash and shares - it really is that simple. Once you install the Viewbar™ software it automatically records the time you’re actively online, and AGLOCO pays you for it. But the first step is to sign up and become a member. It’s fast and it’s free. If you refer your friends and family AGLOCO will pay you even more cash and shares.

They have a member / earnings calculator, where you can estimate your future earnings. For example,  if you sign up 25 people and those referrals sign up 5 people, and you all surf 5 hours / month, you would earn 24,411.25 per month! Pretty impressive.

Learn more about AGLOCO and join as soon as possible!

I just wanted to check something on del.icio.us and typed www.del.icio.us… To my surprise the site with www is not resolving.

I just wonder how many visitors del.icio.us losing every day just because they did not added an URL redirect (and a nameserver record) for the www version on their subdomain (del.icio.us is actually a subdomain…). This should be a 2 minute work for anyone with minimal technical knowledge…

After we launched www.OneLoveNet.com we realized that for an international dating site, we need to get at least a regional classification. So, we quickly made some changes and integrated a worldwide regional database. Later members will be able to easily search for profiles from their province, and hopefully the chances of finding “the one” will be much higher. Yes, the internet is global… but dating with someone close to you will be always better than dating with someone who is thousands of miles away from you.

For example, let’s take the province where I live, there are already 5 profiles posted: Profiles from Satu Mare, Romania (yes, one of these 5 profiles is actually mine… you can guess which one).

Actually the site is starting to become busy, there are already 277 profiles posted, mainly from Romania but international members will also come very soon. Why mainly Romania? Because I needed to get a criticall mass before I can start advertising it internationally. Yes, I could use 1-2 more external links from international sites, so feel free to link to the site, this way it gets known even faster.

We just launched a new dating site: OneLoveNet.com. This website (actually an international dating and singles website, the name onelovenet.com has just been registered recently) should have been started in 2003… but due to many other -mainly business website related- projects we have been involved, we always postponed it.

Now, we finally launched it. Just finetuned the scripting part, we are now working on a much better design… the current one is extremely bad. But it will be better, I assure you.

Hopefully this will be another database intensive project and it will grow quite fast and we will make some of you very happy. Who knows? Maybe you’ll find your life partner through us…

By the way, we already have a Romanian dating service which ranks quite well in google (www.index2000.ro/matrimoniale) and -although we have not made any change on it in the last 2 years- it is still growing.

Back to the subject, come and find singles at www.OneLoveNet.com.

I hate MySpace. Probably because I never had the time to use it… or I am too old. + The content created by the vast majority of members is so ugly.

As the owner of a software company, we were also involved in creating a niche social networking site. It was a great experiene, however, I was not involved in the project directly. So, I knew we were working on the site but haven’t checked the website too many times. But… the guys from the company definitely did a great job. This was about 1 - 1.5 year ago and at that time I never thought about building something similar as a publisher. But things are changing quite fast on the internet and although we are not the first on the market, I believe we could have success with a specialized business networking site. Yes, I know there is already a Xing.com but I believe there is still growth potential and if you change a few things, you can actually have a great product. And, if it happens to be mainly free and mainly supported by advertising, this might be even better. We all know that Markus is making a fortune from his free dating website, so the AdSense supported business model might be a good one. My only concern is that I would depend too much on google….

Some related sites I use about 1-2 times a month:

• www.xing.com
• www.del.icio.us
• www.digg.com.

I am still collecting the ideas on what to include on the site, features, complexity of the forms, software & design, etc. But, sooner or later it will be launched. I already have a killer domain name for it but let this be my secret for now.

There are many organizations offering so called “trust seals”. Just some of them:

• http://www.truste.org/
• http://www.bbbonline.org/
• http://www.trustlogo.com/
• http://www.trustbuild.com/

According to Comodo: “TrustLogo™ removes a major barrier to successful e-commerce: the lack of the ability to verify the trust between a website and its visitors.

Powered by the Internet’s only real-time Identity Assurance infrastructure (Comodo operated ID Authority), TrustLogo delivers trust, confidence and peace of mind to your customers.

TrustLogo helps achieve what is currently unavailable - an e-commerce environment in which website visitors are assured they are dealing with legitimate organisatations.”

So, basically when visiting a website and looking to work with the company managing that website (maybe even ordering and paying a product or service), the visitor have the ability to confirm that “you are a trustworthy professional, committed to conducting business over the internet the right way”.

From all the trust teal websites, I like the most Comodo’s TrustLogo, their seal / logo confirms for the visitors the identity of the company / individual without having to actually leave the website. So, if I’ll ever use on my sites a trust seal I will use Comodo’s TrustLogo.

I would be interested to read your comments about trust seal. Do you use a trust seal on your website(s)? If yes, from the time you started to use it, did it increase your sales? Do you have more confidence in a website using a trust seal?

Come on… I know you are reading me, don’t just read, be active.

Yes, if you did not know this so far, I am writing it clearly: the internet is gobal.

Our main office is in Romania, Eastern Europe, but we run a few region specific B2B portals like Brazil B2B Marketplace or Middle East B2B Portal. We are getting more and more recognition through these regional portals, local and regional media is started to be interested is us and our work.

Today, we got a serious partnership proposal from a well know publishing company from Middle East. They are interested to partner and work together with us and … will see what will happen. And, I have to tell you that this is not the first similar proposal we got from well known Middle East Companies. So, it looks like it doesn’t matter too much where you are located or have your main offices if you do your job.

Yes, of course, similar requests will certainly lead us sooner or later to establish a local presence in a specific region, but the above scenario confirms that this is certainly not a must… yet.