I was approached last summer by an (unnamed because I'm not a complete tool) company trying to co-opt the advertising power of users from facebook, i.e. they'd

I was approached last summer by an (unnamed because I'm not a complete tool) company trying to co-opt the advertising power of users from facebook, i.e. they'd pay you three bucks to give them control of your status for a day. To make a long story short, they apparently ended up dropping the idea, as their site is now back in GoDaddy's clutches.