HERSH,
The viewer team as never finished adding link support into the Simple Info Widget as of 2.2. Maybe it was completed in 2.3 but I don't remember seeing this fixed when I was beta testing 2.3.
Hersh,
This is by no means simple like the simple info window but it does hyperlinks and aliases
http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=4ec33120c9ea4d019fddf722fc34ea3c