Turntable.fm - 50 Best Websites

Turntable.fm - 50 Best Websites

Music & Video

Listening to digital music is usually a pretty solitary experience. Turntable.fm, however, is joyously social. You enter themed chat rooms (containing either your friends or strangers) and take turns deejaying songs from your own collection or Turntable's library. Everybody chats and votes on the tunes; the interface, with tiny cartoon characters representing the participants, is part of the fun. This new site is already a productivity-crushing phenomenon in Silicon Valley; it isn't officially open to the public yet, but you can get in if you have a Facebook friend who's already a member.

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My Damn Channel - 50 Best Websites

My Damn Channel - 50 Best Websites

Brevity is the soul of the wit at My Damn Channel, a video site where almost everything is entertaining and nothing runs for much more than five minutes. It features short-form sitcoms like Versailles (with Fred Willard, Patricia Heaton and William H. Macy), stuff by dependably funny people such as Harry Shearer and Bruce McCall, an in-your-face instructional show called You Suck at Photoshop and the self-explanatory Cookin' with Coolio. More professional than YouTube and less schlocky than much of what's on the networks and cable, My Damn Channel is damn good TV.

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Howcast - 50 Best Websites

Howcast - 50 Best Websites

If YouTube were reincarnated as a self-improvement site, it would look a lot like Howcast. As on YouTube, there are vast quantities of videos of varying professionalism. As on YouTube, watching them is addictive, and you can upload your own. But as the site's name suggests, these videos are instructional in nature, including everything from "How to Become a Professional Cake Decorator" to "How to Build an Electromagnet." Some of the videos are earnest and serious, but the most engaging ones tackle topics in a playful manner even when the subject is mundane and the advice is practical.

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