Facebook Wants You To Watch, Listen, Read And Want Stuff, Too [Facebook]

Facebook may have some upcoming changes that'll add Watched, Listened, Read and Want buttons to its social network, according to a rumor from TechCrunch.

These buttons will fine tune your profile information and could replace or augment the Like button. They will also give Facebook even more personal information tit can use to violate your privacy, I mean build your social web. We should find out more about these and other changes during Facebook's big f8 conference next week. [TechCrunch]

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MOG's FreePlay Lets You Listen to Music Without Paying For It [Audio]

Starting tomorrow, MOG users will have access its 11 million song library for free with no monthly usage cap—as long as they're willing to put up with ads and actively interact with other users.

Think of MOG's new "FreePlay" service as Pandora's ads meets Dropbox's incentives. MOG assigns users of the services a "virtual gas tank" of play time, which is interrupted every so often with ads. As they use the service more, share music with other users, and invite their friends through social networks, they earn more play time in the tank. While Spotify's free service has a 10-hour monthly cap, MOG's FreePlay theoretically never runs out. Play how MOG wants you to play and the dream of free on demand music can be yours. Otherwise, you can pay for one of its previously existing services.

MOG currently offers a free trial of its paid monthly plans, which are very similar to those offered by Spotify: $5 for unlimited, ad-free access via web or desktop client and $10 to add mobile devices. New Freeplay users will get 60 days without ads, but MOG's hope, of course, is that you'll be hooked and upgrade to one of their paid services before that ad-free trial runs out. Nobody's managed to create a freemium music plan for mobile just yet, but hopefully that's not too far around the corner. [MOG]

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Listen to Gizmodo’s Soundtrack: Active Child [Video]

Listening to Active Child is like drinking a cup of codeine as your shuttle docks with a gently rotating space station. It's futuristic—contracting tides of synths, and and an ethereal voice that sounds part Android. It's very serene.

And after a week of helping find the coolest stuff on the internet internet and planet for you guys, my nerves are kind of shot. I need soothing. Hours of Waka Flocka Flame and Watch the Throne propel me through most days, but at their end, and particularly on fridays, I need to submerge myself in something like Active Child's "You Are All I See". I'm calmed, unfolded, transfixed—the harps meld with computer sounds, the human mixes with the extraterrestrial, and I feel like I'm watching a scene of Deckard and Rachael after they escape the finale of Blade Runner.

There's something just slightly ominous about it, but the beauty of Pat Grossi's voice and melody overwhelms. I forget about all the Chrome crashes, the software updates, the patent wars, the firmware problems, the file incompatibilities—it all drips out. Each song on this album is like the cold vacuum of space—deep, dark, cold, but flickering with the vivid light of nebulae and comets. Sorta like writing for a tech site! It makes me feel good, and I hope it'll make you feel good. Digest an MP3 or two of Grossi's work if you need help sleeping, unwinding, or just feel like lying down and thinking about supernovas. It's moon base music. [Amazon, iTunes]

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How to Listen to Voicemail like the News of the World [Watch This]

Kevin Mitnick, legendary hacker and author of Ghost in the Wires, sat down with Reuters reporter Anthony De Rosa to illustrate how someone's voicemail can be accessed—sans password—simply by spoofing the caller ID. It's absolutely wild, just watch. [Reuters]

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Listen to Gizmodo's Soundtrack: Goldfrapp [Video]

Many of you may not know Goldfrapp, but it's the soundtrack of my Apple events articles, all written at hypersonic speed. When the adrenalin is pumping, it's either that or the fast tracks of Exile in Main Street by the Rolling Stones.

Goldfrapp is a British band, formed by goddess Allison Goldfrapp and wizard Will Gregory. They have released album after album of incredible new sounds, always reinventing themselves with each release. What they were doing in 2000, Madonna, Gaga and all those label monsters are bastardizing now, all fat and artifice instead of the unadulterated genius of this British duo. And live... they are one of the best live bands I've ever listened to. The last time at the Hammersmith Ballroom in New York, during the Head First tour.

Head First was their latest work but this videoclip is Ooh La La. It's a classic, from their 2005 album Supernature, which is simply amazing from beginning to end. Perfect electronica—or whatever this is—with influences of disco and glam all over. Also, it makes me horny. It has all the perfect rhythms for good sex. Trust me on this one.

I probably have listened and danced—Goldfrapp is a must in every good dance floor there is—to this at least three million times. Or something. I just don't get tired of shaking my money maker to it. Hope you enjoy it. [Amazon or iTunes]

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Listen to Gizmodo’s Soundtrack: The Weeknd [Video]

If you live somewhere on the Eastern Seaboard, fill your fridge with food, grab a dozen bottles of wine, and download The Weeknd's Thursday. Then spend the storm eating, drinking, fucking and snoozing in between while listening to awesome tracks like this.

And if you live somewhere else, you can do exactly the same. Especially is somewhere else is a sunny place by the sea.

Download the album for free here.

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How to Listen in on First Responder Calls During the Hurricane [Video]

News outlets are going to frantically update you with Hurricane Irene info, but you can get a step ahead and listen directly to live feeds of first responder calls. Here's how (and where).

INFOdocket points to RadioReference.com as a great source for emergency call feeds that lets you browse by county, city, and state. RadioReference also has a feed for the Amateur Radio Hurricane Watch, which lets you listen to radio updates from amateur broadcasters in the emergency zones. And INFOdocket provides links to services in other countries, so check out their original post if you're outside the US. And the rest of you, keep yourselves safe. [RadioReference via INFOdocket via Boing Boing]

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Listen to Gizmodo's Soundtrack: Today, Frank Ocean [Video]

You may not know it, but every Gizmodo post has a soundtrack. A few times it's in our videos. But most of the times it's hidden. It's the stuff we listen to when we write. The music that inspire us.

Starting today, we are all going to start posting the songs and albums that make our gears roll and our hearts pump. Hopefully they will inspire you too.

Sometimes it will be rock. Others hip hop. Or house or disco or pop or blues or soul or an 8-bit video game track. Sometimes it will be new stuff. Others it will be old things. Whatever is playing, whatever we believe you may like too. Some of you will hate it, some of you will love it. We don't pretend to be music experts. We aren't bloody Pitchfork. We just like stuff. But whatever the results are, hopefully we—the writers—will be able to connect with you—the readers—at a new level.

You know, to show you another part of the soul of el Modo del Giz.

I will start the ball rolling with this amazing mix tape called Nostalgia/Ultra, by Frank Ocean. Really atmospheric and groovy. Novocane, the song in the video above, is the second theme. It's the kind of music that makes me want to fuck off to a beach, to snooze all day besides my girl, eat seafood, and then dance and drink all night. Instead, I've been playing it often while writing around this time, a neat bourbon by my side.

You can download the whole mixtape from here (for free!) I hope you enjoy it.

P.S. Oh, and this goes the other way around. Please, post your current soundtrack in the comments, with links to YouTube videos and where people can download (if it's free) or buy (if it's not).

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