What software/app do you need?
messel: Short list:I'd love a form of viral analytics tool similar to the work of Kotangent but for open social web apps (non-facebook web)I could use a great (open source?) front end for social feeds for a web app a friend and I have been building. I'm working on it now but I'm not sure of the right way to go about it. I'd pay for it. Many shiny nickels. One of the requirements is organizing the feeds, and setting up users to lay claim to the feeds.While you're at it, how about a great social reader. We could use RSS meets Push and I'll need to code that up as well for the above work I'm doing. We plan to build everything open source so folks can hack their own front ends (and their own databases if they wish).Last but not least, a social game that tags content in feeds. Kind of like the voting system here on HackerNews but folks get credit for tagging stuff they read, listen or watch. The top 2-3 tags are used for downstream filtering. The points are also usable from a marketing perspective, and can be spent to increase the visibility of a post.Where's the money come from?
There's plenty of valuable information to be mined, and who knows relevant social web readers outside of Facebook could be handy in a year or two with all the open standards work being done.