Ever wanted to talk to Martians on MySpace? That future could be a distinct possibility soon, if NASA has its way. They’re bringing all the details and goals of the new mars mission online. They plan on providing real time images of the space craft landing. This will allow millions of people across the world to experience the Martian landscape first hand. And if we see any little green men, we’ll make sure to let them friend us on MySpace and Facebook.

If you believe you are one of those people who have already met a little man from outer space, then Spielberg’s new venture should be right up your alley. It’s a website called The Rising, and it’s out to create a Facebook style social platform for UFO abductees. ET no longer needs to phone home- he just has to post a bulletin on his profile.

For those of us still trapped here on earth, we’ve got a link to Wired’s new How-To section, about using the internet to live green. It’s set up in a wiki format, so if you know anything about living with a low carbon footprint, you can go and share your knowledge with the world.

Earlier on the Free Line we showed you several free online applications that let you add Geo Tags to pictures, including one that used your cellphone. Looks like someone at Apple watches these videos and knows what the public wants. The next version of iPhone, 2.0, will have geo tagging for photos built in directly. Take a picture with your iPhone, and the geo tags automatically pop up.

While we’re on the subject of tags, we’ve got some startling news about the next version of FireFox. It will not have microformat support after all. Microformats are a form of semantic web browsing, a technology now used in Yahoo and Google searches and one that will be used in Digg in the near future. This new technology is hailed as the future of the web, and it seems sad that Firefox won’t have them built in. Fear not, though, for you can always download the Operator plugin and experience web 3.0 first hand.

你是否想过在MySpace上认识火星人？这个想法也许很快就会实现了，【如果NASA有办法的话。他们正打算在网络上公开未来火星计划的细节。计划中包括提供实时的探测器着陆图片。这可以让世界各地的人们第一时间体验到火星的景色。另外如果你看见了火星人，我们会确保把它在MySpace和Facebook上加为好友】。

如果你确信你是一个曾经遇到过外星人的人的话，那么斯皮尔伯格最新的作品一定正适合你。【这是一个叫做The Rising的网站，它是一个类似于Facebook的UFO爱好者在线交流平台。外星人不再电话回家了，因为它只在博客上写日志。

对于我们这些只关心地球的人，大家可以看一下【连线杂志的最新板块，教大家如何使网络更环保。它很像一个维基网站，所以如果你知道如何用一种更环保的方式生活】，你就可以去跟世界分享你的经验。

我们之前在FreeLine中提到过如何利用免费的在线程序给照片添加地理标签，包括一个在手机上使用的软件。看起来苹果公司的有人看到了这些视频并了解大家喜欢什么。【苹果在iPhone的2.0版中内置了地理标签系统。用你的iPhone照张相片，地理标签系统就会自动弹出。好玩极了。

说到标签系统，让我们来看一则令人吃惊的关于新版本火狐的消息：【它竟然完全不支持微格式！微格式是语义互联网络的一种，目前正被雅虎跟Google使用，另外Digg也在计划中】。这项新的技术被推举为网络的未来，可以看起来火狐并不打算内置这项技术。不过不用害怕，你可以随时下载Operator插件并第一个体验Web 3.0Until next time, for the freeline, I’m Brad Fallon.

MySpace plans on pushing the Free Line by offering, (and I quote), “all the music in the world” for free.

YouTube rolled out a beta release of its three newest features, which they refer to as improvements in the overall management of your messages, contacts, and videos.

AT&T has decided to enter into the Web Browser market by crafting it’s own offering: Pogo—in private beta now.

And finally, Popular Mechanics has an interesting interview online with Web search guru, Udi Manber.

This weekend was SoCon08 in Atlanta, the second annual Social Media Conference in the ATL. It was very cool, and hundreds of people showed up. One takeaway, Crowdvine is a free app that lets you host your own online community.

So we started one for the Free Line at freeline.crowdvine.com. Join up and see how it works. Plus, it’s a good thing to consider for any of your own internet marketing projects. It only takes a minute to create your own social networking site, and Crowdvine has some cool features — like a faceted tag cloud in the right-hand column that lets you get a feel for all the members at a glance, and the ability to display your own blog feed so other members can see what you’re writing about. Check it out, and be sure to add me as a friend – you can never have too many friends.

Well, Yahoo has officially rejected Microsoft’s bid and is looking for alternatives to keep itself independent, including some sort of partnership with Google. The board thinks Microsoft’s bid is too low. No word on what the shareholders think – those are the ones who were holding the stock at $20 when Microsoft offered $31 a share. Anyway, it shouldn’t matter too much what the board thinks – this IS a hostile takeover. Some sort of poison pill is still a possibility, but this deal is far from dead, and Microsoft is already talking to some of the big shareholders directly. Stay tuned . . . .

Google News now offers local news. Go to news.google.com and enter a zip code or the name of a city. Google then looks for any mention of news for that town. The end results give you multiple sources on every story, giving you a clearer view of the local news.

The web-based Iminta launches into public beta this week. It’s a self-funded project by ex-CNET Product Manager, Aaron Newton. The site allows you to track all of your social networks in one spot and get an RSS feed listing everything you and your friends are up to in one, easy-to read-place. And you can customize the data; for example, if you’ve got a couple friends who Twitter too much, you can sei it to ignore their twitter feeds. The beta launches tomorrow, so request an invitation today. There are other services like this, too, and TechCrunch lists them all.

When you want something more graphical and fun than a Facebook game can offer, here’s Neverball, a free 3D marble madness style game that might keep you playing for hours on end. So there’s your warning.

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Yahoo’s Open ID signup is now live. If you use Yahoo’s email, portal page or any other service, just log in to Yahoo’s new OpenID page and fill out some additional information. After that you’ll be able to log into any website that supports OpenID. So far, that includes some big players, like Technorati, Magnolia and Blogger. Unfortunately, it’s a one-way implementation; if you’re already using Open ID, you can’t just login to Yahoo. But this should drive adoption, significantly.

If you want to understand the data portability concept and why it’s important, this 2-minute video explains what you need to know.

Google has recently released some new, experimental search result formats in their experimental labs. Included are search results with maps for locations and a timeline view for searches that show the history of a person, company or topic. For e-commerce merchants, an even bigger deal in Google’s recent decision to display those merchants that use Google Checkout in a link at the top of the search results for certain product searches. That’s live in the main SERP’s now.

NetScape is finally dead. As of last Friday, the first commercial web browser’s demise is official, and it will no longer be updated or supported. Even though Netscape may be a thing of the past, it has passed on its legacy to FireFox and Mozilla, which both share code used in the last version of Netscape. Internet Explorer, bundled with Windows — for free – finally killed Netscape. Yet another example of how moving the Free Line is good for business – and bad for competitors.

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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.

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