Arianna O'Dell

I haven’t been blogging lately. School, work, start-up, etc, etc, but today I thought I’d break the dry spell to tell you about an awesome new service that I am completely in love with.

Turntable.fm

I just stumbled upon this site a few days ago from my Twitter stream, but have already spent countless hours on it. So far, I’ve connected with people in Seattle, Europe, and all around the world.

For the past few years, the digital music community has been trying to solve the problem :“How do we make music social?” I have not seen another site that solves this problem in a better way.

So what is Turntable? Turntable, put simply is a chat room where you can play songs with your friends. The room is set up like a club, and you and your friends can take turns DJing and playing songs. In the room, your friends can either “awesome” or “lame” your song, giving the DJ points for whoever put on the song. This gaming mechanism makes the game even more addictive.

You can hop around rooms, create your own room, and meet people from all over with similar taste in music. In the past, I’ve always found it intrusive to my friends to constantly post songs I want to share in my Twitter and Facebook stream (though I still do it sometimes .  I’m so glad to finally have a platform where I can share the music I like with friends.

Listening to a song together creates a feeling I can’t describe. It’s sharing happiness.

Go try it out!