Desperate as I am, I want to come up with a project that can make a start-up attractive to a well-heeled buyer. Here’s one: expert.google.com. The blue-sky is thus:

Use a link-grammar front-end on a forward-chaining system (massively parallel, natürlich) to data-mine teh intarveb. Solicit customers to subscribe to an alert service, à la Dow Jones.

Okay, so it needs a multi-year, multi-million dollar budget. Whatever. Wing it!