Steve Gillmor has been alluding to the death of the link for months now, despite the resistance he has met in the infosphere he continues to predict it's demise. Today he elaborates on the idea at the end of he's post "A Hamburger Today", prior to his planned deliveries at Gnomdex later this week. His brief but revealing view of the future without links instead provides gesture based dynamic or intelligent linking inserted by the service you consume. In my post here that would mean your RSS reader would automatically provide dynamic links to Steve's info router when you hover over "A Hamburger Today". Don't worry if this doesn't work yet you are just looking at it to early and the reader just hasn't realised that links are dead yet.

This of course solves a great deal of the link spam issues, as the link itself is only visible to the participant and only has relevance to that participant. In this future PageRank is of course meaningless (we always new it was going this way anyhow, due to gaming). I guess then that we will all end up with personal gesture/attention based search services probably based around GestureRank?

I for one welcome the our new relevance overlord (GestureRank) A.K.A me.. The Link is dead long live the Link.

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