The semantic Web and killer app

When we were 1st introduced to the semantic Web I struggled like many others to understand what exactly it was. I undertook lots of reading on the subject area, however is it was not making the definition any clearer. Then one day I came across a video on YouTube and it explain to me exactly what the semantic Web was and what it could do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGg8A2zfWKg

So from my app I originally decided to make a photo collards of people who had visited my website. As far as I'm aware this currently cannot be done because unless the photo is tagged they cannot tell who is in the photo. When I started to think about this I decided that it is very similar to the face recognition software Facebook uses. So I decided to change my idea.

For my new app I decided to create a photo search. Instead of searching for photos, you search inside the photos of the certain objects. This is currently not possible because the web can not recognise objects without being told what is. So for me to make a mockup I had to use XML to simulate the search. And how this works if you set your keywords, it then looks in the XML database for the keyword and replaces the images URL. This means I had to create the photos before, I used a photo I had previously taken in the summer.

   Orignal photo

 person in colour

 The lighthouse and colour

  The flags in colour

 The statue in colour

 The cars in colour

For my app I decided I wanted to create a real feel mockup. I decided that I would make it look similar to Google and this then gave me an idea for the name, Picoogle. The picture version of Google, so I set out to create a logo. Originally I wanted something that was many different colours, however it just didn't look right so I settled on blue. As you can see below this is my finished logo.

For my final design I made my Picoogle search look similar to Google. Which is a very basic, clean design. I also included instructions of what my search was meant to be. Then at the bottom of the page underneath my picture I declared that this is a mockup and it only works with certain keywords. The keywords are person, Lighthouse, statute, cars and flags. If the keyword is not found it brings up a picture saying 'sorry search not found', as you can see below. Also below is a screenshot of my finished and what it looks like.