Content that updates itself. WEB 3.0?

I was writing today about the Nokia E52 and got to the part with price and had to mention that this was the price at the time of the writing and that it will change for sure in the future. This is OK if someone visits this page today or one week from now: the information will still be valid, but what happens if someone gets here during Christmas or Black Friday and see the 400 $ price tag? That person might make a mistake assuming the phone is too expensive and will look for other cheaper models, ignoring this one.

What do you want WEB 3.0 to do for you?

Don’t tell me that I should come back from time to time and update the price. That doesn’t hold when you have a few hundred posts on your blog and it shouldn’t be a solution, at least not an optimal one. Then I got thinking about content that updates itself. Don’t confuse it with content that writes itself, but regular content with small pieces of information that are updated automatically when things change, things like price, availability or address.

I don’t know how to call those pieces of information, but I bet you’d want your store address to be updated automatically everywhere on the Internet where someone mentioned it. It’s useful for other things too, not just from businesses point of view. This is what I would like to see in WEB 3.0. Definitely.

Think that content that updates itself automatically will make older pieces of content worth reading again. Will also clean up the garbage in many search engine results. Update means in this case up to date. So, what do you want WEB 3.0 to do for you?