Software I Would Like to Develop

Software development was my hobby before it was my career. Since it is no longer my primary job responsibility I am once again able to view software development as a hobby. Unfortunately, I have a lot of hobbies and not enough time (golf, motorcycle, would like to be sailing again, etc). However, if I did have some time, here is a list of the software I would be interested in developing:

• Apple AddressBook plugin for social network integration
  How cool would it be if AddressBook was able to pull social network information from people in your AddressBook. I would particularly like to see my AddressBook attempt to find and ‘friend’ the people I know on the social networks that I am interested in using. I am NEVER going to upload my list of contacts to a service and let them invite everyone to sign up, but if people I know have an account on a social network I use, I would like to know about it.
• Decent blogging app for a Treo
  Mobile application development is interesting because I have more and more itches that I would like scratched. The main one that is bugging the shit out of me is the lack of a decent blogging tool. I think part of the reason I am using twitter so much is because I can’t easily post to jaxn.org from my phone.
• Tool for managing multiple IPSec VPNs
  Not only am I not sure whether this one is even possible, but I am also unclear as to whether I have the knowledge to pull it off. Still, this would scratch a major itch. I think I would be willing to pay at least $200 for a tool that allowed me to connect to Nortel, Cisco, SonicWall, NetGear, etc VPNs.
• Daily aggregation script
  This one would be really easy to do. I just want a tool to take an RSS feed, collect an entire day’s entries, and post them to my blog via XMLRPC. It should have features like dynamic titles, tag aggregation from the items in the feed, etc. It is similar to the daily blog posting from del.icio.us but would take an RSS feed as it’s source and provide a few additional features. I probably will solve my need with a planned feature to statzen, but it still would be a nice utility to have.
• RSS Aggregator
  I would like to re-purpose some of the technology that I have created for statzen into a feed reader. The goal would be an aggregator that does a better job of helping the cream float to the top simply by observing the user. I am really interested in software that takes passive input from the user and then provides the user with new insights.
• SMS bot
  How fun would it be if you could send a text message to my phone asking “where are you?” and it automatically respond “Union, NJ”. Sure, that might only be interesting because I travel so much, but that is the kind of thing I could choose to make available via a SMS bot. It would also be cool if I could make an incoming SMS message fire off a program on my phone. I could create something to allow people to ask me yes or no questions via a text message like “got time for a phone call? Y/N” and it could pop up an alert on my phone with the question and Yes and No buttons to allow me to respond. These are just simple examples, but an SMS bot on my phone would allow this kind of thing and so much more.
• Whatever you want
  It is fun to develop software that other people use (especially if they enjoy using it). So, what would you want? What do you want to do easier/faster? Who knows, I might just get around to developing it for fun.

Of course, I do have a little time for software development. That time is going toward developing statzen. I have some really neat ideas that are mile away from displaying numbers and statistics. The data that I am capturing can either be displayed in a very dry ‘spreadsheet’ way or it can be used to give new insights into these massive bodies of work we are creating on our blogs and the attention people are giving our posts. [Cue "Hi, I'm a Mac; and I am a PC"].