We just had an interview the russian daily kommersant about semapedia and the state of 2D barcodes in general:
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?DocsID=1211376
Love that they published the Bernie Madoff Tag:
http://www.kommersant.ru/dark-gallery.aspx?PicsID=354650&stpid=71
The google translation is hilarious:
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kommersant.ru%2Fdoc.aspx%3FDocsID%3D1211376&sl=ru&tl=en&history_state0=

Neomedia holds the patent 6,199,048 for indirect resolution of barcodes :
1.) the user initiates the code scan on his device and the scanner software retrieves the Identifier encoded in the barcode
2.) the scanner sends the Identifier to a online service to retrieve the associated URL
3.) the scanner is handing the URL to the […]