An interesting piece on Microsoft’s Smart Tagging Plans doesn’t say anything I haven’t heard before. The plan, it appears is for software that automatically inserts links into browsed web pages, links that Microsoft is the point of exchange for. Hence, your anti-gun site could be filled with links to promotional literature for the NRA. Or more prosaically, a web business that’s already reeling from an inability to make money will find itself crippled by drops in traffic. Is this the future of the web? Certainly it seems to be a step away from the madly anarchic non-hierarchical net of today…
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