Making APIs and platforms useful to the non "tech elite". Long way to go with that. - JonathanJoseph

filtering out duplicate information across APIs (twhirl just asked me this question twice - in friend feed and twitter) ...via twhirl - Sarah Davies

"Smart" social stream readers - filtering the information as it comes in, grouping of similar items (and/or elimination of dupes), tracking discussions, items from one's most interesting friends would carry more weight, filter by groups/services/time frames, meme tracking based on your own social stream, more efficient display of the flow - highlight quality comments from your interesting friends, pay less attention to tweets with no links embedded, etc. - Aviv

API standards, like OpenSocial and the forthcoming DataPortability. - Mike Reynolds

Mega-apps!! :-) - Dave Winer

Better filtering mechanisms to reduce noise and prioritize content. I wrote about this the other day http://twurl.nl/n260oi - Mark Krynsky

smart clouds - Steven Hatch

Better platforms like friendfeed, to make sense of all the information and noise from your social networks - Abhishek

ownership: making the information I store and share in "their" services, really mine. I want everything living in my domain (let's redefine this). - Panayotis Vryonis

A global dashboard where I will be able to drag and drop services and arrange it like how we arrange icons in the desktop. Using something like Intel's mashup maker, I should be able to create a mashup from any website and drag and drop the service to my global dashboard. This will make Sun's vision of 'network is the computer' a reality for even mom and pop users. - Krishnan Subramanian

New abstractions: none of the lifestream tools actually look or feel like _streams_. They're just lists. - Adewale Oshineye

Finally coming back to what usenet and irc already had - intelligent filter and scoring mechanisms?! Allowing me to use tools and services to serve my needs and not have me work the way the dev. of an apps sees fit? I am constantly annoyed on how services neglect to do research in the not so far history and then complain that they get flack for not having certain things. 20 years ago it was fine when you did not have an airbag, today to come out with a modell without is just plain stupid. - Nicole Simon

Just to put things in perspective: I had a person and keyword based scoring mechanism in my newsreader over a decade ago. Including rating down and up, including having a way to search through articles and mark them read once I was through that, only display new stuff, or stuff in context etc etc. I want that back. - Nicole Simon

Oh and you should take a look at http://ffapps.com/ - the scripts there are far more important than any api can be at the moment. Because they care about what the User wants. - Nicole Simon

Nicole, LOL. I love the airbag analogy. - Ginger Makela Riker

small pieces loosely joined by a mesh, and not just Microsoft's ...via AlertThingy - dan farber

new apps that use these APIs as the basic framework, like http://urbantakeover.at/ or http://www.fireballapp.com/ -- the most important APIs will be the very basic things, like Twitter (and hopefully competing projects, soon) for communication or Fire Eagle for location. - sebmos