pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/detroit-auto-show/" rel="tag"Detroit Auto Show/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/hybrids/" rel="tag"Hybrids/Alternative/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/green/" rel="tag"Green/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/videos/" rel="tag"Videos/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/hatchbacks/" rel="tag"Hatchbacks/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/toyota/" rel="tag"Toyota/a/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/21/2010-toyota-prius-revealed-more-in-youtube-video/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autobloggreen.com/media/2008/11/user45382_pic596_1224059343_opt.jpg" alt="" //abr / div align="center"emstrongsmallClick above to watch video a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/21/2010-toyota-prius-revealed-more-in-youtube-video/"after the jump/a/small/strong/ema href="javascript:void(0);/*1227304639648*/"br //a/div br /Toyota's irritatingly slow leak of seemingly insignificant 2010 Prius teasers has shown us such riveting details as the hybrid car's a href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/2008/10/06/next-gen-prius-gets-a-new-logo/"startup screen/a, a href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/2008/10/28/detroit-preview-prius-team-releases-teaser-4-its-a-seat-swit/"power seat switch/a and some sort of a href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/2008/10/20/detroit-2009-preview-third-prius-teaser-appears/"all-knowing seeing-eye camera/a. A much more interesting set of leaks has also granted us an early but pixelated peek at the car's external shape, along with detail shots like the rear LED tail lamp assembly and a few different looks at the interior. Now, we've discovered a a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/21/2010-toyota-prius-revealed-more-in-youtube-video/"set of YouTube videos/a that definitely don't seem to have come from Toyota itself. br /br /In the videos a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/21/2010-toyota-prius-revealed-more-in-youtube-video/"after the jump/a we see the new 2010 Prius spinning on a rotating stage, we see buttons on the steering wheel that change the digital readouts on the central dash and we see a brief glimpse of the car's generous storage capacity via its hatchback body style - all of it set to wonderfully numbing elevator music. There is one interesting bit that we've recently seen: an a href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/photos/possible-leakage-2010-toyota-prius/1171104/"air conditioning button/a on an old-school key fob that allows the climate control to run via rooftop solar panels even while the car itself isn't running. Fortunately, we only have about two more months to wait for the car's official debut at the 2009 a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/detroit-auto-show/"Detroit Auto Show/a in January. Thank God for small miracles. Check out both videos for yourself a href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/photos/possible-leakage-2010-toyota-prius/1171104/"after the jump/a. emThanks for the tip, everyone/em!br /br / div class="postgallery" strongGallery: a href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/photos/possible-leakage-2010-toyota-prius/"Confirmed: 2010 Toyota Prius/a/strongbr / a href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/photos/possible-leakage-2010-toyota-prius/1100518/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autobloggreen.com/media/2008/10/user45382_pic596_1224059343_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/photos/possible-leakage-2010-toyota-prius/1100517/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autobloggreen.com/media/2008/10/user45382_pic594_1224058316_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/photos/possible-leakage-2010-toyota-prius/1100519/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autobloggreen.com/media/2008/10/user45382_pic595_1224058316_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/photos/possible-leakage-2010-toyota-prius/1171106/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autobloggreen.com/media/2008/11/bossdowner10_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/photos/possible-leakage-2010-toyota-prius/1171100/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autobloggreen.com/media/2008/11/bossdowner1_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/div br /[Source: a href="http://priuschat.com/forums/prius-hybrid-news/55790-15-new-photos-2-new-videos-2010-next-generation-prius.html"Prius Chat/a]pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/21/2010-toyota-prius-revealed-more-in-youtube-video/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading em2010 Toyota Prius revealed more in YouTube video/em/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/21/2010-toyota-prius-revealed-more-in-youtube-video/"2010 Toyota Prius revealed more in YouTube video/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:27:00 EST. 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Ever since Apple announced iPhone OS 2.0, the once secretive company has developed more leaks than a sieve: with only the rarest exception, every major feature of each of its new software updates has been outed, photographed, and discussed so much that the actual releases have become non-events. At least, it may feel that way for those who spend every day obsessing over the latest Apple happenings. But there’s a different reality on the streets...

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/beta-liberty.jpg" width="525" height="412" style="display:block;" //p div style='float:right; margin-left:-9px;'script type="text/javascript" digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_bgcolor = '#f1f8fa'; digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/A_Call_for_Revolution_Against_Beta_Culture'; /scriptscript src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript" /script/div pI'm tired of this. This sense of permanent discomfort with the technology around me. The bugs. The compromises. The firmware upgrades. The "This will work in the next version." The "It's in our roadmap." The "Buy now and upgrade later." The patches. The new low development standards that make technology fail because it wasn't tested enough before reaching our hands. The feeling now extends to hardware: Everything is built to end up in the trash a year later, still half-baked, to make room for the next hardware revision. I'm tired of this beta culture that has spread like metastatic cancer in the last few years, starting with software from Google and others and ending up in almost every gadget and computer system around. We need a change./p pTake the iPhone, for example, one of the most successful products in the history of consumer electronics. We like it, I love mine, but the fact is that the first generation was rushed out, a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/apple/no-bs-iphone-review-276116.php"lacking basic features/a that were added in later releases or a href="http://gizmodo.com/5083116/iphone-22-release-just-10-days-away"are not here yet/a. Worse: The a href="http://gizmodo.com/5047372/iphone-21-update-coming-friday-less-call-drops-crashes-faster-sync-better-battery-life"iPhone 3G was really broken/a. For real. Bad signal, dropped calls, frozen apps. This would have been unthinkable in cellphones just five years ago. They were simpler, for sure, but they were failure proof. Today's engineering and testing is a lot more sophisticated. In theory, products can't go out into distribution with such glaring problems undetected./p pAnother recent example is my iMac 24, which had the infamous a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/imac/ati-graphics-may-be-at-the-root-of-imac-freezing-issues-307409.php"video card problem/a out of the box. How can a machine with such an obvious problem—instantly detected by the user base—be sold like that? The same happened recently with a href="http://gizmodo.com/5061605/apple-confirms-failing-nvidia-graphics-cards-in-macbook-pros-offers-free-repairs-and-refunds"Nvidia video boards/a. In fact, graphic cards—being always in the cutting edge of technology—are perfect examples of beta hardware being sold as final hardware, with many released with beta-quality drivers and requiring firmware patches./p pFrom that to the now-universally-accepted Blue Screen of Death, from a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/movies/problems-with-blu+rays-bd+j-spec-causes-headaches-for-early-adopters-266923.php"buggy Blu-ray players/a to a href="http://gizmodo.com/5064742/microsoft-sued-over-xbox-360-rrod-issues"the Xbox 360's red ring of death/a and a href="http://gizmodo.com/367611/playstation-3-217-update-brings-bug-fixes-hard-drive-installation"PS3's bugs/a, even from a href="http://www.turbochef.com/residential/service/oven-firmware-updates.aspx"kitchen ovens/a to a href="http://gizmodo.com/356092/nikon-d300-firmware-update"faulty DSLR cameras/a, the list of troubled products is endless. Just this week, the eagerly anticipated BlackBerry Storm launched to a href="http://gizmodo.com/5094371/10-takes-on-the-blackberry-storm"mixed reviews/a, in part because of its crashy, apparently unfinished software./p pOn the other side, my parents have a Telefunken CRT TV and a Braun radio from the '70s which are still in working condition. They were first generation. They never failed. Compare that to my first plasma TV from Philips, which broke after less than a year of use. Mine wasn't the only one. The technology was too young to be released; it was still in beta state. Philips wanted to be the first in the world with a flat TV and beat the competition, so they released it. This probably wasn't a good move: Today, Philips' TV business is struggling, and is a href="http://gizmodo.com/377355/philips-wont-sell-tvs-in-north-america-anymore"nonexistent in the US/a. Meanwhile, my Sinclair ZX Spectrum and Apple IIe from the 1980s still work like they did from day one, perfectly./p pFor sure, today's products are far more complex than those of 20 or 30 years ago. But back then, the manufacturing was also a lot worse. It was less automated, often purely manual, and imperfect. Today, in a world where automated factories run 24/7, there's less chance of error. Yet still, there are countless problems in the final products, and those problems affect every unit in an entire model line. In the age of manufacturing perfection, there are still major recalls concerning products that a href="http://gizmodo.com/5067386/rage-wireless-guitar-leaks-acid-can-burn-your-rock-jewels"burn/a or a href="http://gizmodo.com/5052568/apple-recalls-ultracompact-usb-power-adapter-for-the-iphone-3g"break/a./p pClearly, the problem is the development process and the time to market, with product cycles shortened and corners cut to keep a continuous stream of cash flowing in. The rush to feed these cycles with increasingly more complex engineering seems to be at odds with shortened development and quality assurance processes, resulting in beta-state first-generation products. This beta culture, the same one that already plagues the web, breeds people who are willing to accept bugs in the name of cutting-edge gear./p pWho's to blame? Google and their web apps? Apple and their iPhone 3G problems? Microsoft and their countless buggy versions of operating systems and the Xbox 360's RROD? Philips? Sony? Samsung? LG? We all are. The manufacturers, who are driven by a thirst to expand and satisfy their shareholders at all costs. The consumers, who are so thirsty to drink in the shiniest, newest technology that they are willing to sacrifice stability. And the press too, who pours more gasoline onto the consumerism bonfire by writing glowing reviews and often minimizing things that are simply not acceptable./p pPersonally, I'm tired of all this. But I'm mostly tired about the fact that it seems that we all have given up. Tired because a href="http://gizmodo.com/5070154/why-its-safer-than-ever-to-buy-first+generation-hardware"now we see "upgrades" as an opportunity to protect our investment/a, but in reality, it's laziness and a poor job on the manufacturer part that we have accepted without questioning. Instead of calling foul play and refusing to participate, we keep buying./p pThat's the key: We have surrendered in the name of progress and marketing and product cycles and consumerism. Maybe those are good reasons, I don't know, but looking at the past, it feels like we are being conned. Deceived because the manufacturers of electronic products have taken our desire to progress faster and even embrace the web beta culture as an excuse to rush things to market, to blatantly admit bugs and the rushed features sets and sell the patches as upgrades./p pMaybe the recession will put some order in this thirst of new stuff and change the product cycles. As the economy slows down, people will think twice before buying the latest and greatest; they'll keep older hardware for longer. Then, manufacturers will have to rethink their product lines, and lift their feet from the accelerator, which will result on slower cycles and better products. Maybe that's our ticket for better electronics that actually make sense./p pOr maybe... maybe that will be another excuse for the manufacturer to cut even more corners and keep lowering prices so that consumers keep spending and ending up with worse products than we have now./p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=c3e455c3677a43b80709099d95624e7cp=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=c3e455c3677a43b80709099d95624e7cp=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=c3e455c3677a43b80709099d95624e7c" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=RvVWNmt4"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=3tnPs2JD"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=8syG9UpF"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=8syG9UpF" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=NKPoFVUd"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=NKPoFVUd" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/fCpCo4ktygQ" height="1" width="1"/

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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/2008/11/custom_1227282078058_iphonepublictransport_01.jpg" width="804" height="402" style="display:block;float:none;" /The new iPhone 2.2 is here and we've been playing with it all night and morning. Like Apple says in their documentation, the stability and performance seems to have improved, but the spotlight falls on the new and improved Maps application, which has been polished up thanks to its public transportation and walking directions, as well as the smooth, fast Street View, and many other interface details. There are a lot of unexpected new features—no, no cut and paste—and fixes as well, and we've tried them all here:/p pbEnhancements to Maps/b/p p· Public transport and walking mode: The most impressive part, at least for a public transport user like me, is the new public transport and walking directions mode. They work as you can expect, without many glitches. This mode has all the information you need, at least here in New York, and it showed me the fastest way to get from my house to Gawker offices (cleverly avoiding the damn 6, which is always arriving late for me)./p pNot only it showed the route clearly, with nice new icons, but it also gave something unexpected: subway timetables. As you can see in the gallery, it tells you what's the departure time for the next Manhattan-bound L train, telling you how many minutes you have to get there on time. It can also calculate the total time of your trip, which is always useful./p p· Street view: It works great. You can't access street view by clicking on any place in the map, but the way Apple has implemented it kinda makes sense. When you do a search (or drop a pin) an new little guy icon will appear in the address pop-up. You just have to click on it and the map will zoom and smoothly change into Street View mode, rotating the display to the left automatically. From there you can navigate easily, using one finger to look around the panorama and clicking on the overlaid arrows to navigate. It works hot-butter-over-pancakes smooth. We'd like to be able to access the mode by just finding our current location and switching it on though./p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/teddy.jpg" width="480" height="320" style="display:block;" //p p· Other new features: When you drop a pin, it displays the exact address of the location. You can also share any location via email very easily, just by clicking on the location itself and hitting a Share this location button. It's a quick cut and paste substitute (of course, no cut and paste yet)./p pbiTunes and App Store/b/p p· Podcasts over the air: As far as we can tell, they work flawlessly for both audio and video. I accessed the new feature and I was downloading podcasts in no time. Unfortunately, the artificially-imposed 3G network 10MB limit is easy to reach for video content, such as the TED Talks that download fine over Wi-Fi. One good thing: It leaves the podcasts in a queue so the next time you get into a Wi-Fi hot spot, they will download automagically./p pscript type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" galleryPost('iphonepodcasts', 3, ''); /script/p p· App store reorganization: The UI has been sightly reorganized and polished. The categories, for example, now display bigger and with icons. As I speculated in our iPhone 2.2 rumor round-up, the icons shown seem to show the top free application./p pbFixes/b/p p· Improved stability and performance in Safari: In my informal testing, it feels a bit faster to me, especially on Javascript heavy web sites./p p· Resolved isolated issues with scheduled email: Wasn't able to test this one, as I don't use scheduled checking to save on battery life./p p· Improving wide HTML email display: If you have ever ran into this problem, you know it's extremely annoying. When somebody sends you an HTML styled email, sometimes it displays very long lines and tiny text. I received a mail like that the other day from my sister and went immediately to try it. Unfortunately, the fix hasn't worked for me on that one, but it did work in another email I got from a company. Weird./p p· Decreased in call set-up an call drops: Too soon to tell./p p· Improved sound quality on Voicemail messages: I saw this yesterday so I went and tried them in 2.1. Indeed, there were pops and hisses. After the update I tried under 2.2 and yes, they ido/i have better sound quality./p pbOther little additions/b/p p· Clicking the home button while you are in the home screen takes you to the first page of the home, which is ivery/i welcome, as that's where I store my main applications and I have several pages of additional apps and page links./p p· Safari: They have streamlined the interface for address and search, like we already saw in previous leaks./p p· Preference to turn auto-correction on and off: This is a welcome addition for me, because quite frankly, no matter what Jason says, my iPhone corrects fuck with duck every single time. So duck auto-correction for a little while. I'm going to ducking see if it affects my ducking speed or not./p pbVerdict/b: It works fairly well, feels smooth, and the new features are a must havemdash;especially the new Maps application. Ducking good. 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MySpace scored two high-profile album streams this week: Chinese Democracy by Guns N' Roses and Electric Arguments by The Fireman (Paul McCartney and Youth). MySpace playcount indicators show that many listeners are only sticking around on MySpace to play the first few tracks on both albums. On both pages, playcounts generally decline from track to track over the courses of the albums.

Coolfer wonders whether people have developed a case of "MySpace premiere fatigue" and can no longer be bothered to listen to more than the first few tracks on either of these high-profile releases. You can skip directly to any track on either album on the site, but the default setting is to play the tracks in the same sequence in which they appear on the album, which the blog acknowledges is a major reason for the drop-off. In these times of multitasking and short attention spans, we're likely to find something else to do during the 45 minutes or so it takes to listen to an album, especially with the whole internet sitting right there to distract us.

To be fair, neither album first appeared on MySpace (most of Chinese Democracy leaked through a blog and all of Electric Arguments was first available on NPR). MySpace was the first place the Guns N' Roses album was available, so the drop-off there does indicate that people tend to stop listening as the album progresses, even if they are excited about a totally new release.

But "MySpace preview fatigue" as a general phenomenon? Doubtful.

As the copy becomes worthless, the only thing of value is its original source, which draws traffic, advertising revenue and opportunities to sell merchandise, tickets, related albums and so on. Besides, the 'ground zero' location for any album has the potential to become the venue for subsequent conversation about the album, creating more traffic and opportunities down the line.

Premieres could be the sole aspect of recorded music that will grow in value as time goes on.

As an aside, Guns N' Roses' listens have already climbed into the hundreds of thousands, while The Fireman's songs linger in the the four-digit range. There are many reasons for this, including that fans have been awaiting Guns N' Roses' release for over a  decade while McCartney and Youth didn't even reveal that they were behind The Fireman project until after their second album. Plus, much of McCartney's core audience already heard his album on-demand since Tuesday on NPR (if they need to hear it online at all) where some of us maintain the premiere actually occurred.

Guns N' Roses, whose MySpace motto is "Chinese Democracy in stores Nov 23rd. Only at Best Buy," already had over 400,000 fans on MySpace before the premiere, as a MySpace spokeswoman told us. Apparently, not even half of them have bothered to hear the album yet (the last track, "Prostitute," currently clocks in with 159,712 plays).

See Also:

• Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy Launches on MySpace
• Lawyer: Guns N' Roses Uploader to Walk
• Guns N' Roses Leaker's Fate Rests in the Band's Hands
• FBI Visits Leaker of Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy
• MySpace Music Sees Major Money in Free Tunes
• Blog Leaks Tracks From Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy
• MySpace Music Adds User Playlists, Amazon Links

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Foram precisos mais de 15 anos, uma série de fugas (leaks) pré-lançamento e a detenção do blogger Kevin Cogill - que teve a audácia de publicar no seu blog nove dos 14 temas do álbum - para que os fãs que ainda restam dos Guns N’ Roses pudessem finalmente ouvir Chinese Democracy, o novo-velho álbum da banda.

O disco está desde hoje disponível para audição completa via streaming a partir da página dos Guns N’ Roses no MySpace a partir de 25 países do globo, incluindo Brasil e Portugal. Até ao momento, o disco já vai nas quase 700 mil reproduções. Na verdade e sem falar nas versões completas do disco disponibilizadas em sites de BitTorrent sem autorização de Axl Rose e companhia, duas canções - o tema-título e “Better” - já podiam ser escutadas desde há algumas semanas atrás em alguns sites de estações de rádio e música online.

O lançamento mundial exclusivo, marcado para o dia 23 de Novembro nos EUA, estará a cargo da cadeia de grandes superfícies comerciais Best Buy. O resto do mundo terá que esperar pelo dia seguinte. Estão a ver como a pirataria faz impulsionar a música? Se não fosse Kevin CoGill a colocar os tais nove temas para audição via streaming no seu blog, provavelmente ainda hoje não teríamos acesso ao disco e Axl Rose teria continuado a adiar o lançamento para as calendas gregas. 

Quanto à qualidade das músicas em si, apesar de não ser um grande apreciador do género (Rock Metálico) posso mesmo assim dizer com toda a honestidade que não é tão má como alguns dizem.

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After several closely monitored weeks of leaks, it's time to take a look at the year's most anticipated album that doesn't feature Buckethead. Given Kanye West's reputation for finding musical inspiration in unlikely places (be they leftfield samples or genre-bending collaborations) it's surprising to see the superstar rapper/producer embrace such a restrictive palette. As you've no doubt gleaned from this and other blogs, every song on this album is built from a blueprint of TR-808 drum machine beats and conspicuous digitally manipulated crooning. It's a departure that's especially confounding given the prevalence of Auto-Tune abuse in countless recent hip-hop hits. Kanye knows the pitch-shifting mechanism is played out, he just doesn't give a shit. It's still a crutch (a more skilled singer wouldn't rely on the gimmick) but we won't harp on it. The absence of samples is one key difference between this concept album and the acclaimed school trilogy. The lack of pop singer guest appearances and co-producers is another (though Jeezy and Weezy make high-profile if totally unnecessary cameos, and No I.D. co-produces two songs with Kanye). Those creative choices coupled with King of Pain (T-Pain?) lyrics help define 808s as a solitary pursuit. Don't expect any club bangers, this is more like a soundtrack for stalking ex-girlfriends on Facebook.

Fans can now, finally, officially, legally hear all of the new Guns N' Roses record Chinese Democracy.

The whole album appeared on Guns N' Roses' MySpace page early Thursday morning (EST), where you can stream each one on-demand as many times as you want. Tracks can be added to users' profile pages as well.

As for how this long-awaited opus sounds, we touched on that a bit earlier, and Klosterman pretty much nails it (he gives it an A), with typically accurate observations like "60 percent of the lyrics seem to actively comment on the process of making the album itself." Sort of like rap.

Nine songs out of the 14 were leaked. The leaker took probation as part of a plea deal with government prosecutors (the band could have pushed for a stiffer penalty).

Chinese Democracy is available for pre-order from Best Buy via MySpace -- $12 for the CD or $20 for the vinyl, both with free downloads of the title track. The release date for both physical formats is November 23. The digital download format, assuming one will exist, is not available for pre-order. Best Buy owns Napster, so it could show up there, and MySpace's Amazon-backed store isn't a bad bet either.

See Also:

• Lawyer: Guns N' Roses Uploader to Walk
• Guns N' Roses Leaker's Fate Rests in the Band's Hands
• FBI Visits Leaker of Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy
• MySpace Music Sees Major Money in Free Tunes
• Blog Leaks Tracks From Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy
• MySpace Music Adds User Playlists, Amazon Links