If you want my opinion where I see Talkfreelance.

> The best marketplace hands down out of ANY webdesign/development community, this is done by enforcing a few new policies, including not having threads bumped to the top upon replies, stricter advertisement limits (e.g one per every 14 days). Some additional services such as thread highlighting and I really like the idea of the "sold" feature. I also had the idea of combining a system like www.scriptlance.com has, instead of simply listing work and recieving offers, people would "bid" on it.

> Skin, I would hire the same designer who did Talkfreelance but I wouldn't change the "style/colours", I would make it 100% wide and include a better brand identity, more like an enhanced version with 728x90 sitewide ads and the like.

> Article system, like sitepoints, that's the site I have always tried to emulate, it works.

> Blogging, very popular, you could also have some feaured blogs on the index page or something.

> Freelancers directory, with premium sticky listings and what not.

I have alot more ideas, but that's what I see TF version 3 doing (in my eyes) a portal like site with alot more functionality, a better community and a much better marketplace!