Remember the days when NetZero really cost nothing and all you had to do was watch ads to get free internet access? Those days might come back on steroids. Currently the FCC is toying with the idea of auctioning a portion of the 25 megahertz spectrum with a free provision. This means that whoever buys this spectrum is forced to provide high speed internet access free of charge. We won’t know for certain until June 12th, when the FCC meets and votes on this idea.

And this idea could be right in time, since Time Warner Cable has decided to start metering their bandwidth, charging people a dollar for every gigabyte they go over their lotted amount. This doesn’t sound like much, but if you watch a lot of video on the internet it could add up very fast. Right now this is in a trial period in Texas, but is expected to branch out to the rest of their subscriber base within the next few years.

A program that could definitely get you in trouble with Time Warner Cable is the new Microsoft Silverlight. This alternative to Flash lets you stream movies and play video games that can gobble up bandwidth faster than you can say Bit Torrent. And they have just recently announced support for Ruby on Rails - a programming language that makes developing web applications easier — but not necessarily better — just ask Twitter.

Next, in the Internet Marketing world we’ve been seeing a lot of product launches lately. This week, my buddy Mike Filsaime, (who by the way, is a really great internet marketer that you should pay attention to) is giving away a really cool huge report and mind map series from his $5,000 workshop.

And now even FireFox is getting in on the Product Launch Formula. In fact, FireFox is gunning for the Guinness Book of World Records for Most Software Downloaded in 24 hours. They’ve announced Download Day for the release of FireFox 3, and are trying to get as many people as possible to download a copy of FireFox during that 24 hour period. I just hope it doesn’t break GTD Inbox that we told you about.

And finally, one of the coolest applications to run on a web browser, whether it is FireFox, Internet Explorer or Safari, is the new Unofficial Google Shell. Deemed Goosh, this Unix style command line interface is the brainchild of Stefan Grothkopp. You type in search terms and Goosh brings you information from Google in real time. That’s what I call using the internet in a new and interesting way — and I can’t wait to see what the technical types start doing with this.