A better way to think about this may be in terms of people with DOMAIN-SPECIFIC experience/talent learning how to apply "new" technologies (e.g. rss, wikis, etc

A better way to think about this may be in terms of people with DOMAIN-SPECIFIC experience/talent learning how to apply "new" technologies (e.g. rss, wikis, etc) to solve problems. I agree with the original post in that "hacker"-created apps seem to center around just a few domains: - generalized business/productivity - general social interaction - general media consumption/prosumption These are just my impressions, but I feel that there is something to them. I wish we were seeing more apps for, say, the medical profession, the poor, or for really specific target markets (maybe "bond traders" or "school teachers"). Clearly education is one field that could stand s'more revolutionizing...