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Content that updates itself. WEB 3.0?

John Pope — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:52:35 +0000

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?

Content that updates itself. WEB 3.0? is an article from JohnPopes.com blog.
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Patience is a virtue sometimes

John Pope — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:52:05 +0000

I’m a gadget freak, always wanting the latest and the greatest and as expected I always try to be up to date with anything in my domain of interest, including upgrading hardware and drivers. Today I’ve learned of a big firmware problem for some Seagate hardrives. As I own several Seagate drives I’ve bookmarked the article so that I could investigate more when I got home.

Needless to say that all my Seagate drives (I have two, by the way) were targeted as affected by a firmware problem that could cause data to become inaccessible upon system power up. I got a little scared and thought to update the firmware from Seagate’s website.

I don’t know why, but I didn’t, I said to myself that it can wait a few days to see what others say about the issue as it didn’t seem too widespread to be a really concern. And boy was I right as it seem the guys at Anandtech updated the firmware on two of their drives which become unusable.

Besides the fact that Seagate really screwed things up I learned that it’s not always good to be an early adopter and sometimes is best letting others take the first step. What about you, any troubles with your drives?

Patience is a virtue sometimes is an article from JohnPopes.com blog.
Copyright 2007-2009

WordPress 2.7 Coltrane is here

John Pope — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:54:00 +0000

My favorite blogging/crm platform, WordPress, just got a new update with version 2.7 codenamed Coltrane, after the famous American jazz saxophonist. The new release brings nice features like the fully customizable interface, sticky posts, threaded comments, automatic WordPress update and more. Check the video below or go to the download page:

WordPress 2.7 Coltrane is here is an article from JohnPopes.com blog.
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