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At ReadWriteWeb, we look for more commercial Web apps - whether they be consumer or enterprise. So here are 5 of those we'd like to see emerge and/or grow during 2009: Microsoft makes a very bold play with Powerset technology and starts to challenge Google in search (despite Google's attempts to use semantic web technology, we'd love Microsoft to ramp it up in search - competition is good for consumers!). Semantic Web advertising apps for publishers - we have our eye on Dapper MashupAds in this sector, but we'd like to see others take up this challenge too. Semantic apps for managing your finances - makes connections between transactions, things that you wouldn't normally pick up. Semantic apps for health industry - there are many opportunities here, but in general there is much the Semantic Web could do to organize the maze of data in the health indsutry. A Personalized Memetracker - Techmeme founder Gabe Rivera would be astonished if this happens, but we'd love to see a product that can give a Techmeme-like organization and layout to one's RSS feeds. So at a glance, you can see which stories in your own set of RSS feeds are hot and who's linking to them. Whether Semantic Web technology can achieve that, we don't know ;-) Zoltán Andrejkovics, who suggested this topic, is a PhD student at Corvinus University of Budapest and his 5 wishes as a researcher are: Smart notes; easy to find/browse notes, using NLP search. Smart RSS; automatic article-collecting app based on my own interests. Mind writing; using not only words, but "thought" objects, that the NLP engine puts into words. Assistant; "my mirror", learns from my words, behavior on the net, and supports my work, handles calendar, etc. Smart bookmarks; works like smart notes.