From footballers to film makers…

How do you follow your favorite celebrities? The paparazzi rags – stuffed to the brim with naughty candid shots of Britney Spears eating pork rinds in her front room – are more about spying on stars than connecting with them. We all know about the power of celebs on Twitter. But your never-ending news feeds swallow up individual stories and lessen the impact of sharing. One website  is making it easier than ever to get closer to real stars’ real lives… it’s called WhoSay, and you’re about to discover it!

The Kids Should See This – There’s millions of videos on the internet. And if you’ve got young kids, I’m sure you’ll have had the same fear as many of us, that the large majority of those videos were not made for kids… and those are the ones your kids will see.

Well this brilliant collection set outs out videos – as dramatically and purposefully as we’ve seen any Tumblr blog set out by the way – that were not made for kids. Or were they…

Well folks, happy new year. In a blaze of fireworks and e-greetings, 2012 has finally arrived. And as we stride over the finishing line of a tumultuous year for the internet, All My Faves – your one stop easy guide to the Web – has decided to look past Facebook and Twitter to find 2011’s most unique and interesting sites. We selected the 10 coolest sites in categories like music, travel and education; and then handed the job of picking the absolute best in each category down to you, allowing you to vote on your favorites. And here they are. Ladies and gents, never mind Facebook, here’s our review of the Best of the Web in 2011.

SideReel – A site like Hulu that allows you to watch full TV show episodes online for free, SideReel is an excellent alternative. SideReel makes streaming TV show episodes & films easy: it offers excellent streaming quality of the best TV shows & films, free. SideReel is also about a lot more than just the episodes, providing original talk-show style video blogs about news from your favorite shows.

Popdust – In a sea of copycat celebrity gossip, POPDUST trains an expert music-centric lens on the artists creating and performing the biggest songs. If pop music’s your thing, it’s got everything really: news, videos, glossy pics, reviews. But now you’ll have to excuse me, I need to go check out Justin Beiber’s shocking new haircut…

Take This Lollipop – Take This Lollipop is an Interactive Live Action Facebook Connect experience.

The Black Diamond – The Black Diamond is a seven-part interactive story set in real locations across London and centering around a cursed diamond.

Glitch – Glitch is a web-based massively-multiplayer game which takes place inside the minds of eleven peculiarly imaginative Giants. You choose how to grow and shape the world: building and developing, learning new skills, collaborating or competing with everyone else in one enormous, ever-changing, persistent world.

LeisureDive – A leisure dive is a jump into a body of water (or at least something soft), striking a ‘leisure pose’ in mid-air. Ideally, a photographer captures the moment when the diver has reached peak height above water, when his or her hips are parallel to the waterline. If successful, the result is an airborne Corona commercial you can post to your preferred social networking platform, or mantle, if you’re old school.

One Cool Thing a Day – One Cool Thing a Day – The name says it all. Every day at midnight a new cool item is added to the site. These can range from an interesting video to an amazing photograph. Check back daily for your cool fix of the day.

Veetle – Veetle provides the next generation live broadcasting platform that can deliver extremely cost-effective streams at a massive scale with unprecedented quality. This unique platform therefore enables content owners, broadcasters and websites to reach millions of concurrent viewers with the highest fidelity content possible, at little or no additional cost. Our Beta website is already attracting millions of visitors per month.

Before diving into broadcasting your own channel, start with this Broadcasting 101 brief.

StyleCaster – StyleCaster is a leading platform that creates and curates the best content from across women’s lifestyle into a comprehensive style experience. They are committed to bringing you the most innovative experience that streamlines the process of style discovery by combining premium content, discussion through an engaged community and the seamless ability to purchase through e-commerce into one exciting platform.