QTRax is a new company that offers free legal file sharing for music with ads. They have backing from major labels, and will launch with somewhere between 20 million and 30 million copyrighted tracks. (Did I mention it was legal?)

Widgetize is a new, free web app that allows you to “widgetize” any site with an RSS Feed. This allows you to embed any other website’s feed into your blog, and it has full CSS support, so it fits nice and snugly into your current web design.

In a smart but inevitable move, Facebook made its little applications available on any website. All it takes is cutting and pasting some javascript, and you can place a Facebook app anywhere.

The Colour Lovers website recently released a free, advanced DHTML color picker that can be placed on any website. They’ll even host the files that are created for whatever color you make with this handy little application.

Following in Google’s footsteps, YouTube has streamlined its site and interface to work more easily with mobile phones. You can now access your YouTube account on the go, interact with the community, upload videos within minutes and browse many more videos than before, all for from your mobile phone.

Fast Company just announced the beta of their online community that focuses on innovation and business ideas. Check it out — you don’t need an invite to sign up. Inc. magazine is said to be starting one, too. (Not surprising; both Inc. and Fast Company are owned by Morningstar Founder/CEO, Joe Mansueto).

A viewer tip for iPod owners: iPod Juice.com has a great free video, showing you how easy it is to replace the battery of your iPod.

And here’s a free video about how to use your iPhone to record a podcast of a meeting

Is StumbleUpon edging out Digg in popularity among bloggers bloggers? A recent online survey listed StumbleUpon as the most popular social bookmarking site by a wide margin.

A few free SEO tools to mention if you don’t already have them — SEO Quake and Search Status are browser plug-ins that let you see SEO related information about pages you visit. SEO Quake works on both Firefox and IE.

And this is very cool: If you want to track how you’re doing in the search results over time, for a bunch of different keywords, and save the results automatically – and you should that’s what SERPArchive does.

Tasting domains? According to domaintools.com, Google’s cracking down on temporary domains that stay up only long enough to bring in revenue from AdSense and then close down before they have pay for the domain. (Applies to sites less than 5 days old.)

It’s called domain tasting, and it took advantage of the fact that you can cancel a domain within five days and not pay anything. Court documents revealed that Google makes a tidy profit from these “entrepreneurs” but no more. I wonder if Yahoo will follow suit.

Automattic, the company that created Wordpress, just raised $29.5 million in Series B funding. The New York Times is among the investors.

Digg made waves this week by tweaking their algorithm and ticking off some power users. This new algorithm seems to skew the front page and push power users into the background, even if they get a lot of people digging them. One user’s take? They’re trying to even the playing field for newer diggers who may be heading off to Mixx.

Frank Kern has another free video out for Mass Control. And this may be the best one yet. Frank is giving away more great internet marketing advice – for free – than we’ve seen in a long time. Now, you can go directly to a blog where all the Mass Control videos are available. His launch is coming soon, so watch the videos (and take notes) while they’re still available! And StomperNet is running a contest to see who can identify the Mass Control strategies within Frank’s killer videos — with the 40-hour StomperNet home study course going to 5 winners.

Check out the latest free line newsletter from StomperNet, and the contest, here.

Noca is a company started by ex-Visa employees who are entering the online payment world by offering free transaction processing in their own micropayment system and bypassing credit cards. Right now, they’re beta testing two applications for micropayments on Facebook. Of course, processing online charges without the 2-3% and $.30 per transaction charge is kind of the Holy Grail for e-merchants. To Noca: Good luck, guys!

Hey Mac users — still missing Camtasia? We hear that the they are working on a version for the Mac — finally! Until then, pure-mac.com has a page with about every screen capture program for the Mac, and many of them are free.

From Aaron Wall of SEOBook.com and Andy Hagans: a great free resource on 71 good ways to build links to your web site — and 30 ways NOT to get links. That’s 101 Link Building Tips — for Free. You’re bound to see some good tactics you’re not doing right now.

One of the best free resources for business searches is the Northern Light search engine. This bot wades through business news sites, blogs, newspapers and business media. You can even save your searches as RSS feeds to get streamed to you in real time.

Tank is a new web site service that makes creating a new website as simple as starting a blog. The free version may have all you need, including photo handling and other things that get difficult if you only have a blog.

The Distilled started a badge campaign to get RipOffReport taken off of Google. Many SEO and SERM (Search Engine Reputation Management) bloggers report that RipOffReport is taking consumer feedback reporting and community feedback to a level that seems like extortion, requiring large payments to remove libelous postings from their site. But Google loves them so far, so companies have been paying to get the scandalous postings removed from RipOffReport’s web pages.

Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic unveiled Spaceship 2. It seems the day is getting closer when a trip to the moon will be as easy as flying to Las Vegas (and perhaps less expensive). Make no mistake – Virgin Galactic is a commercial venture meant to provide recreational trips at a profit.

Speaking of Vegas, if you’re going there anytime soon, like for Ross Goldberg’s internet marketing conference this weekend, try the Mario Andretti Racing School – last week I drove the Indy cars 24 laps and got up to 160 mph.

With the writer’s strike still dragging television down, will the web become a viable medium for the entertainment industry? Probably not for awhile, but one group of writers are raising more than 30 million to do their own thing — online. It’s called Visual Artists.

Marketing Sherpa has a free case study this week on building your own social networking site. Next, Web 2.0 and social networking are more than just buzzwords. Used properly, they can help you get your message out, build an audience, and connect with your customers.

Mint Money Management automatically tracks all your bank accounts and credit cards and categorizes all your expenses, organizes everything, and could save you a lot of money. It’s the automatic part that makes it worth looking at – and of course it’s free.

Kultura and Wikimedia announced a beta program that allows users to log into Wikipedia and create movies collaboratively. The idea is to bring the same social dynamics to video sharing as Wikipedia brought to online research. Definitely worth watching.

Orchestr8 is a new tool for creating widgets out of your own blog. You can download updates and create new content by mashing up your blog features. This is a good way to create or enhance a community for your own website — and keep visitors coming back. And the best part is that it’s free and easy to use. Hence, it makes the Free Line Report for today.

Operator 11 is a new “Social Television Network” currently seeking funding. It’s similar to YouTube, and users can share their own television shows. What makes it unique is founder Josh Harris’s attachment to the art crowd and the interesting videos it promotes.

MetaPlace is a new start-up that enables users to create their own virtual worlds. Want to start your own Second Life? The worlds are easy to create (you can make a new virtual world in just a few hours). Then, you can embed them into a MySpace page or a blog. Very cool.

eBay CEO, Meg Whitman, is rumored to be retiring after ten years as CEO. According to the Wall Street Journal, the departure could happen within the next few weeks. Meg, joined the company six months before it went public when they had 30 employees; today, they have 15,000.

Time Warner is planning to put caps on the amount of bandwidth people get when using their high speed internet. Users that exceed the limit will be charged for every megabyte above the threshold.

Venture Capital investments set a new six year high with an 11% increase over last year, a total of $29.4 billion in VC funding for new businesses.

Apple has projected a net profit of $1.58 billion for the first quarter of 2008, an increase of more than 30% over the first quarter of ‘07. Steve Jobs says the increase comes from starting the year with a strong new product line, including the Macbook Air, Mac Pro and, iTunes Movie Rentals.

Frank Kern’s free videos are REALLY moving the free line. Frank Kern is the copywriter behind three of the top four internet marketing launches of all time, including StomperNet , which sold more than $12 million in 12 hours.

In this free video series, Frank shows exactly how he built his own niche email list to more than 400,000, plus he explains many of his high level strategies for online persuasion — which he calls Mass Control. His ideas have been responsible for almost 30 million in sales.

Plus, you can watch his whistleblower video to get a glimpse “behind the scenes” at some of these huge product launches. And I can tell you in advance — the stories are true. Click here to learn from a real master of online marketing — for free.

The MacBook Air may be the most recyclable computers on the market but that’s not enough for GreenPeace. On the other hand, this year they didn’t protest outside MacWorld Expo — so that’s good news for Apple.

Yahoo is now including a small icon next to some listings in the search results to show exactly how many people have bookmarked that site with Del.icio.us. So far, there’s no word that De.licio.us popularity will affect the actual rankings. But we’ll keep you posted.

News Worth Knowing - Scientists have rigged a monkey’s brain to make a robot walk — over the Internet. The robot was in Japan and the monkey was in North Carolina.

Amazon is currently being fined 1,000 Euros a day for offering free shipping in France. A French court ruled that the amount of the shipping discount violates a 1981 French law that prohibits book sellers from selling more than 5% below list price. Jeff Bezos is rallying the consumers, but right now France may be the only country where Amazon’s free shipping practice is illegal.

Yahoo announced support for the format known as OpenID. This will allow Yahoo users to login anywhere with one username and password for every blog, forum, journal or any other community using OpenID .Dell laptops are shocking — literally. The new brushed aluminum laptops from Dell are giving users shocks. From a mild tingle when touching, to a full on ZAP! when connecting USB toys, it looks like bad news for Dell users. (I like to think it’s the latest thing in laptop security.)Bad news for iPhone users this week, as a trojan highlights security issues. So far, it’s just a proof of concept, but the holes in iPhone’s security still need to be plugged.

Splashtop allows users to bypass Windows and head straight into Email or the Internet to start working right away. No more waiting for Windows to load at an airport before going online. Now there’s a “productivity enhancer” while you’re waiting for a flight on Southwest.

In a great example of Moving the Free Line, the free video from StomperNet about SMARTS is already making a big splash in the Internet Marketing world. SMARTS stands for Social Marketing Traffic Strategies – and just ONE of these strategies already caused a major Web 2.0 site to change their policies. (Scribd.com)Botttom line: If you’re looking for more free traffic, and want to learn the best ways to leverage the power of MySpace, Facebook, Squidoo, Propellar, Scribd — and many others — watch this video to learn some very powerful strategies for Social Media Marketing.

Plus, you can download the comprehensive 40-page Strategy Guide while it’s still available for free. The free video and comprehensive Strategy Guide are available here.

So, what is the Free Line, anyway? Watch this short video to learn how giving away more — for Free — may be the best thing you can do for business.