I thought about working in this problem space. Maybe I should think about it again, and receive wads of money as a result. Except I'm not that young, or working

I thought about working in this problem space. Maybe I should think about it again, and receive wads of money as a result. Except I'm not that young, or working in Ruby on Rails so I won't just get handed money before producing any working code. Even then, there are plenty of one-man projects with working code up on google code, codeplex, github etc. that get nothing at all. When I last thought about it, I became convinced that we don't need a single implementation, we need standards for multiple implementations to interact. Stuff like RSS, OpenId, OAuth, etc. It's a lot less glamorous to work to these, and to try to push them forward, but it's a lot more useful.