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Great work taking the time to see where Connect could really be going.
However, I'm skeptical that advertisers will benefit from this extra knowledge. Facebook already knows a lot about me (my ASL, college I attended, job title, music/movies I like, etc.) will it know significantly more about me after I go to digg, twitter and moviefone ? So far the ad networks have wasted millions trying to figure out how to target ad based upon the sites you visits. Amazon keeps showing me nursing items because of the gift I bought for my sister last year.
My professional experience tells me that ASL is about as precise a data set as can be effective monetized by brands and advertising networks. I'd like it to be otherwise, but I just don't see the real-time ad market scaling in unity to be able to take advantage of the extra cents per impression that could be possibly gained.
I am not sure yet how a sponsored apparition in the newsfeeds could be formalized in a equitable, automatic and large scale way, but I think I would be ready to pay for it (especially if it is mixed with targetting options!)