Yep, I saw your comment. You're definitely thinking along the right lines here. It's all about incremental decomposition and recombination.

Hydraulic's first product is currently in private beta. If you like, email me and I'll add you so you can see what it is. Actually email me anyway, because I'm putting together a list of people who are interested in post-web technologies for perhaps a podcast/interview series. My address is in my profile.