This plea for open data of any kind by Tim Berners Lee (inventor of the main WWW protocols) on TED (Technology Enternainment Design, talks and conferences) from February 2009 may inspire you even more: The next web, unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together!
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.html