FOAF plus Amazon Associates

Just to surface something Imran commented over on Matt's Amazonster post:

What if you coupled a FOAF network with Amazon Associates, so that your purchases could be linked to the Associates accounts of your buddies? Every time you buy, someone from your network benefits fiscally from the transaction.

A bunch of us at Carbon Imagineering setup a very quick thumbnail of how this might work.

We've been tracking each Associate account for a while to see how people choose to 'reward' each other; should it be anonymous, explicit, rotating? How would your non-rewarded friends feel if one member of your network was perennially the fiscal beneficiary?

Nice work, Imran. While everyone else is wondering how YASNS is going to make a profit, you're busy working out how social networks can generate benefits for their members.

Every time I sign in to Amazon, I'm reminded that I could 'make £224.34' but I don't want to sell my past purchases, I want to BookCross them. How much could I have contributed to my mates if I'd been part of this scheme? And how much better I would have felt about my purchases, too... Imran's AA is a place I'd want to take my Friendster/Tribe/Orkut network to.

I want in! If you do too, let Imran know.