Absolutely would like to see traditional social media leveraged to market #hive somewhat aggressively. Basically, take a page out of the book of the hype-trainers, but hopefully have the product to back it up.
We need a killer app, slick UX on frontend, near-instant and free account creation, better gamification, and built-in encrypted personal-messaging engine. All of this is completely doable with a focused team.
There will also be so many improvements we can make with yearly inflation%, witness voting changes, measures to make more resilient to "51% attacks," etc. Official (HMTs?) should also be possible.
There's a lot of momentum right now and the community has proved they can rally around a common cause, so let's keep that going.
yes, exactly THIS: "We need a killer app, slick UX on frontend, near-instant and free account creation"