I'm going to not comment on this project at all -- in light of the note that $200.000 has been pledged towards it. If it were a little experiment like the reverse twitter site I would, but with this level of funding for something like this, I'm a bit baffled.

How much has been budgeted for producing your actual software --- Dolphin 7 (in progress), and the evidently frozen Trident platform?

With $200.000, you could have a team of code monkeys chipping away at $20/hour for a grand total of *ten see more thousand working hours*. You could even get your next-generation Trident plaftorm for the budget if you wanted.