On Read/WriteWeb there was a post about 10 semantic Apps to watch. It seems that the terminology of semantics is used for all sort of kinds. Our understanding is that semantic applications should use some form of ontology in order to describe the meaning of data/text and this includes named entities and relations between the named entities. In my opinion not all of the presented candidates fulfil this requirement. Nevertheless it will be interesting to see if the semantic search engines will leave the beta status and be able to answer questions to all sort of domains. Another point to watch is if the other Apps add more semantic meaning to their solution. At least Ontos with his news portal already uses the semantic meaning and offers first semantic services and therefore we are happy not to be alone in the take off of semantic Apps.