IMAGE LABELER
Google's Image Labeler... As I mentioned here, there is still a lot of work needed to support relevancy for search.
Google / Yahoo
My concern lies with the [potential] homogenization of creative and ad *spaces* as we would see even less flexibility within search, to create unique experiences for users.
CREATION OF VALUE–VALUE IN CREATION
OUT-THINK EVERYONE OR OUT-CREATE THEM?
Creativity is an intellectual labor. The truth of the matter, no idea can be considered a potential failure until it's respective execution has been experienced or utilized in some fashion.
Show me something that is not art.
MARKETING ACROSS MACRO REGIONS, HMMM.
Even with a successful implementation of a semantically-driven web, this will be very difficult to introduce.
Without user's contributing concise and accurate data of their own, sites will always sell advertising to the masses or be forced ( as always ) to generate better ideas with each campaign.