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.

还记得以前有NetZero的日子，我们上网只要看一些广告就可以不用花钱吗？那些日子可能再Steroids上重现。+目前FCC正在考虑进行对25兆赫的一部分波段进行有条件拍卖+。这就意味着那个竞标成功的公司就必须免费的提供高速网络服务。我们等到12号FCC投票通过之后才能得到消息。

而且这个想法来的正好，因为＋时代华纳刚刚决定开始计算网络流量，将对超过用量的用户收取每GB1美元的费用＋。听起来好像不多，但是如果你经常在网上看视频的话可能超的就会很快。现在它正在德州进行测试，不过预计在几年之内将对其所有用户生效。

政策施行之后一个可能让你抓狂的软件也许就是微软的银光。这个Flash的替代品可以使你用比bt下载更短的时间观看流媒体视频和游戏。＋而且他们最近刚刚宣布了对Ruby on Rails的支持，后者是一种可以让网络程序开发简单化的编程语言，可这未必是更牛，＋比如Twitter

接下来，最近网络营销行业里面出现了很多新推出的产品。而本周，我的哥们Mike Filsaime，（顺便说一下他是一个非常优秀的网络营销师），将要推出一本超牛的报告并介绍他在一个5000美元的工作里产生的脑图理论＋。它完全免费，所以不要错过了！

＋而且现在火狐也加入到了推出产品的行列。其实，火狐正在评选24小时能下载最多的软件。他们刚刚宣布了Firefox3的下载日期＋我只希望我那天提到过的GTD收件箱不要因此而挂掉。那是一个超牛的插件。

今天最后，我们带给你史上最酷的网页版程序，无论是在火狐，IE或是Safari中，都可运行的Google Shell，＋也就是Goosh。这个Unix风格的命令行界面来自于Stefan Grothkopp。你只要输入关键字Goosh就会实时返回Google的结果。其实没什么用，就是很搞而已＋。不知道哪位高手什么时候可以推出一个Dos版的baidu。

That’s the freelinereport for this week.

Summize is a simple Twitter search engine.

Travis Campbell sent us a video tutorial on some free software that can search through images and videos in a snap. The software is called Picklens, and it works in almost every single web browser on the market.

AT&T launched its own streaming video service yesterday, allowing MobileTV capable cellphones access to all of your favorite television shows for just 15$ a month.

We have a link to a free and informative video on WholeSaleTraffic.com that will show you how to beat Google at it’s new game. The video shows you how to get your Adwords clicks at wholesale prices, make over ONE MILLION dollars in less than 9 months and easily TRIPLE your ROI from Google Adwords. If you took a monetary hit from Google’s recent change in the way it does Adwords, you need to watch this video.

People wanting to see a fight between two web giants will be disappointed, as Microsoft walked away from its Yahoo bid on Saturday, after raising it to 47.5 billion dollars. Yahoo turned down the higher bid, and instead of taking it to the shareholders like Microsoft originally threatened, they just let the whole thing go.

April Fool’s Day is tomorrow, and to help you celebrate, we’ve got a list of the top 10 tech pranks you can pull on your friends and family. These high tech high jinx will keep your family bewildered as you laugh when their desktop goes haywire or their speech recognition software only responds to Klingon.

Next, some of the biggest names in cable television, wireless phones and the internet are talking about joining forces to fund Wi-Max, a wireless high speed internet network to link phones and computers – as fast as DSL. The big talkers include Google, Comcast and Sprint and the group plans to invest $3-4 billion in the joint venture, according to the AP who’s bringing Washington-style leaks to Silicon Valley. All this according to an anonymous source who asked not to be named because he or she was not authorized to discuss the talks. Well heck, don’t let that stop you. Where would 24 hour news and information overload be without leakers?

And the music industry was turned on its head when two major music groups decided to move the free line themselves – this was the year that both Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead offered all or portions of their newest albums for free. We have a link to a great overview of how both of these groups have offered free music online throughout the years, and what led to their ground breaking offers. This is an excellent Real World case study of how moving the free line pays off.

And WordPress has released a brand new update, making the editing and administration of a WordPress blog easier than ever before. The Wordpress dashboard now has widget features kind of like MovableType. Other additions include multiple file uploads, one click plug-in upgrades, built in galleries and better search. They also claim more code friendsly WYSIWYG editing – that would be great. In fact, I’ll let you know in a couple days. In the meantime, we have a link to a free video with a demo of the new WordPress features.

And finally, the One Laptop Per Child Project, which sells very inexpensive laptops to the developing world, has accumulated over 8.5 gigs of free music that anyone can download, use or remix. The music is licensed under Creative Commons and comes from the likes of the Berkley College of Music and electronic superstar BT. The music can be used in any project, even ones that have nothing to do with OLPC laptops.

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明天就是愚人节了，为了庆祝，我们为大家准备了10大可以对家人朋友开玩笑的科技谣言。这些超级捣蛋的程序会使你的朋友们迷惑不堪，直到你笑话他们那些被搞乱的桌面和只能识别克林贡的语音识别软件。

接下来，一些有线电视、无线电话和互联网领域里的巨头们正在开始考虑联合起来资助Wi-Max，后者是一个可以令电脑和电话工作在一起的高速网络，与DSL一样快。其中主要成员包括Google，Comcast和Sprint计划共同投入30到40亿美元的风险投资，而这次的消息是由美联社悄悄泄露给硅谷的。全部消息来自于一位不愿透露姓名的人士，因为他本来没有被授权说出这些秘密。我说，不要让那些规矩约束你，哪天的新闻不是充斥着各种小道消息呢？

当两大主流音乐团体决定让他们的作品免费的时候整个音乐界迎来了轩然大波——今年九寸钉和电台司令乐队开始向大众免费开放他们的全部或部分最新专辑。我们找到了一个不错的链接解释这些团体这些年是如何在网上免费发布音乐，以及他们是怎么做到的。这是一个现实世界中一个学习免费是如何赚钱的好案例。

WordPress刚刚发布了最新的升级，这极大简化了WordPress用户对博客的编辑和管理。而WordPress的面板也被增添了新的特性，类似活版印刷术。其它的改动包括多文件上传，插件的一键升级，内置图库和更好的搜索。另外它们还改进了的所见即所得编辑，这太好了。事实上你很快就能亲身体会到了。与此同时，我们这里还有一个免费的WordPress新功能展示视频。

最后，那个”每个孩子一台电脑”项目，也就是向发展中国家出售低价电脑的项目，已经拿到了8.5G的免费音乐，任何人都可以下载，使用或混音。这些音乐来自诸如伯克利音乐学院和电音BT的地方，并通过知识共享的方式授权。它们可以被用在任何地方，甚至不用跟OLPC电脑有任何的关系。

Youtube is adding live video streaming later on this year, competing directly with the slew of live sites like Yahoo Live and UStream and others. They say that they’ve always wanted to do live streaming, but did not have the resources until they were bought from Google.

Google has announced funding for a Harvard project, which will store searchable information for DNA sequences. Combined with Google’s other recent projects (storing health care records and the like) it looks like the web giant is branching out and being the go to place for information retrieval.

Dance Jam, the Youtube for Dance Videos, has moved out of private beta this week and into open beta testing. Dance Jam was founded by 80’s icon MC Hammer, and allows users to upload and link to their own home made dance videos.

Facebook has announced that they have been working on tools for bands to upload videos, announce news for the band and sell music or band merchandise. The visitors to a band’s Facebook page can then listen to music and watch videos from directly inside the page.

Looks like the rumors are true- key Microsoft programs like Office are coming online and to a web browser near you. The products will be free and ad-supported, and will be competing directly with Google Docs and Adobe’s Buzzword applications.

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The online image editing tool Picnik is letting users have full access to their image editing software completely for free. You can edit images in all the major browsers and operating systems, and it integrates seamlessly with all your favorite social networks, including Flickr and Photobucket. You can even download a Firefox plugin that will let you edit any image on any webpage just with a single click.

Last week we covered the launch of Adobe Air. This week we’re covering the top 6 Adobe Air applications that will rock your world. A Twitter client, a Flash editor and on and offline storage using XDrive.

Facebook is planning on doing a massive redesign of their website- planning to make the main webpages identical to it’s iPhone version, slimming it down and removing clutter. There is some bad news for application developers, the new layout removes application lists that used to be on everyone’s profile page.

Squidoo has released a new tool for lensmasters- Squidaholic. With a quick search you can find out who has been talking about your lens, discussing it and linking to it.

Social networking is now in the nursery with the release of Totspot, the social networking site for moms and their newborn babies. Like all other social networking sites, you create a profile and then make friends and extend your network. Since Totspot is targeted at mothers, they can also make profiles for their children as well. What’s next? A social networking site for cat owners?

Facebook has opened up their friend feed service, so that users can put in feeds from any of their social networks. Not content with other companies to support its now open friend feed platform, Facebook has taken the initiative and lets you pull in information from other platforms. Now you only need to log in to Facebook to see what all your friends are up to.

Got an old laptop lying around collecting dust? Why not bring it back to life and make it useful again! We’ve got a link to several free and low-cost projects that can turn your old laptop into a webserver, photo frame, LCD monitor or wireless network extender.

Google’s moving into the healthcare business by storing medical records online for doctors and hospitals. Their test environment will be in Cleveland, and all patients must approve these records to go live in the new search environment. These records will be password protected, and available to healthcare professionals only.

XineDesktop, a web based desktop platform, has changed it’s name to CloudO. CloudO is a web based desktop that is nice to look at and has tons of functionality, but is always in prebeta stage. Maybe the name change is a good sign, and we can see an actual product to play around with before the year is out.

Apple’s second version of Apple TV makes some massive improvements over the old, clunky, poor selling model. With the new version of Apple TV you can connect directly to your iTunes, and the shows you purchase now look crisp and clear. With news of Netflix creating their own set top box to do the same thing, it seems that the next computer battlefield will be the living room. When will Microsoft join in the fray? It seems very soon- since Netflix will also work with any Xbox 360 system.