As My-ANI is growing very quickly - 22 guides have been published in only a few weeks - it is very important to provide a powerful yet easy to use structure to the visitors of the websites for the best possible browsing experience. The additional structure and the new navigation features have just been launched and are available at http://www.my-ani.com.

From the main site on My-ANI the visitors get direct access to all 10 portals and to all the lifestyle guides within these portals. The top categories are:

• Entertainment
• Food & Drink
• Hobbies
• Outdoor
• Personal Finance
• Pets
• Shopping
• Sports
• Transport
• Travel

Each of these topic portals covers up to six guides - and there are still many more to come in the next weeks and months.

On each level, the user gets several features and navigation options that make it pretty simple to find your way around the My-ANI universe:

1. Heartbeat:
   On the main site and on each topic portal, the heartbeat shows up to the minutes information, in which guide when the system has published new articles and how many. This section also indicates how many new or updated articles have been published respectively. This information also provdes a link and by clicking it the user gets the full list of articles with all available options to read, forward, bookmark or comment these articles.
2. Topic Menu:
   On top of every page there is a horizonatl manu with all the topic portals included. Hovering the mouse over them they show drop-down menus with all the guides included in that section. By clicking on either a topic portal or a guide name the user gets straight into that section.
   This also means that every lifestyle topic is available from everywhere.
3. Latest News:
   A list of the latest news - from all topics on the main site, from all associated guide on a topic portal or from the guide itself - is always available on the front page on each level. This section gets updated regularely as My-ANI is publishing new articles.
   However, the latest news does not only include the most recent articles. The My-ANI system makes a conscious decision about which articles go into the latest news section incorporating factors like freshness, importance, quality and popularity.
   And a nice extra benefit is the option to subscribe to each latest news section via RSS so that the user always gets informed if there are new article available.
4. Featured articles:
   On the main site and on every topic portal the My-ANI team is hand selecting an "Article of the Day" which stands out from all other articles in some way and those articles get extra prominence on those front pages.

These are just the highlights, there are dozens of more nice little features available on the My-ANI websites. Why don't you go and have a look? Here it goes: http://www.my-ani.com

And if you register yourself and become a member of the community you get extra benefits.

Stay tuned, there is much more to come in the very near future. My-ANI is building the largest resource for news and information on some lifestyle topics, you don't want to miss.

Happy New Year to you from the My-ANI team !

We do hope all the best for this forthcoming year and everybody from My-ANI is keen to deliver best possible services to our visitors, bloggers and advertisers. Should this be a prosperous and enjoyable year 2008 for everybody.

As a start, My-ANI has just launched another guide in the sports category. It's about tennis this time and you can find the World Tennis Guide on http://tennis-news-info.my-ani.com - please visit and enjoy.

My-ANI also wants to use the opportunity and draw your attention to one of the really useful features available on all their guides: subscription. As there is currently the Qatar ExxonMobil 2008 tournament under way, let's demonstrate this feature using that example. Once arrived on the World Tennis Guide, just find the section about this tournament.

There are at least 3 ways to get there:

1. Find Qatar ExxonMobil Open in the topic cloud on the front page and click on it,
2. or go to the blue menu above the topic cloud and hover over Tournaments - a drop-down menu opens and you can find Qatar ExxonMobil Open in there as well,
3. or you can go directly to http://tennis-news-info.my-ani.com/taxonomy/term/10036869

In there you'll find all news about this current tournament in Doha from sources all around the world. And this section gets updated several times a day so that you can always come back and check on the latest.

Or, if you're familiar with RSS and use any RSS reader software online or offline, you can subscribe to this section on My-ANI and you'll get notified about new articles in this section automatically. Just click on the RSS symbol in the title of the according section on the My-ANI site or enter this URL (http://tennis-news-info.my-ani.com/taxonomy/term/10036869/0/feed) into your RSS reader.

This is a very powerful way of making great use of the high quality articles collection on My-ANI. And not to forget, this service is absolutely free and the described feature above is of course available on all the guides in the My-ANI series and within every possible section or combination of keywords. Go ahead, give it a try and tell us what you think: Feedback.

Have a good 2008.

2007 is the year of My-ANI's advent. And with almost half a million top-quality articles - most of which not older than 2 months - the Article-News-Info platform is growing to become the largest resource for life-style topics.

While still in beta My-ANI is presenting up-to-the-minute information for 20 topics in 10 different categories:

• Entertainment
  1. Celebrity
  2. Movie and Film
• Food and Drink
  1. Beer
  2. Food and Dining
  3. Recipe
  4. Wine
• Hobbies
  1. Gardening
• Outdoor
  1. Fishing
• Personal Finance
  1. Loan
• Pets
  1. Dogs
• Shopping
  1. Fashion
  2. Gadgets
• Sports
  1. Baseball
  2. Cricket
  3. Football
  4. Golf
• Transport
  1. Car
• Travel
  1. Airport
  2. Las Vegas
  3. Travel

My-ANI is planning to more than double the number of guides in the first few weeks of 2008 and this will be one part of many to build not only the largest resource on life-style topics but also a great community of authors, visitors and advertisers with a unique ecosystem. A lot more will be build around this in early 2008 and everybody involved is very excited and can't wait to make this happen.

For today, heading towards New Years Eve, the whole My-ANI team thanks everybody who made the first few months possible and a challenging adventure. We wish you all the very best and we're already looking forward to seeing you all again next year - 2008 !

Just one day left in 2007 and yet another big step forward for the My-ANI universe: all of the already half a million articles on life style topics are getting updated the next 24 hours by the system automatically. All the changes are happening gradually so that over the forthcoming night and day, more articles will show up in the improved format and styling every time you visit.

The major change is content structure and styling. So far, My-ANI was focussing on the content as such. From now on, the guides will show full html formatting as well as images and links from the original source of the article. This provides a much greater reading experience and will help to digest all the available great information from thousands of sources.

So what's next? The My-ANI team is working on a year 2007 round up and will summarize the numbers and achievements tomorrow just before they head off to celebrate New Year's Eve.

And in 2008? You'll be surprised - there are many great things on the list of things that will be done for the fast growing My-ANI community. Both for readers and authors. Watch this space.

Close to year end the My-ANI team has worked hard again to provide a series of improvements to their guides of life-style topics. It's promised this is not the end of it for this year, there is yet more to come.

However, before we bring you more, here is the list of what just went online:

• Navigation of the site got massively improved. For detailed description please refer to our post yesterday.
• Latest News: In this section the most important articles get collected and it's now made sure, that the most interesting articles is on top - all other articles in this section get sorted accordingly.
• If articles are recognized as "interesting" and still fit into the "Latest News" section, they move back in the list the longer they stay in this category. This improves quality on the front-page of each guide and gives the freshness attribute higher priority.
• Faster update of articles! Whenever there are new articles available and scored, they now appear on the site immediately.
• Some tags in the tag- or topic-cloud got duplicated in the past. This has been cleaned up and shouldn't happen again in the future.
• Nice new feature for the archive: Click on the "Archive" item in the main menu on the left and you get to the archive of the current day straight away. There you can see the most current articles first and if you want to see older archives, just select the chosen date in the calendar.

Over the last couple of months the My-ANI platform has been growing in many different dimensions. One part of the My-ANI team focuses on the best possibilities to find relevant content as quickly as possible. Let's explore them in more detail:

1. Google Search
   Searching Google, Yahoo, Live, Ask and all the other search engines helps you to find whatever you're looking for and more and more these search engines present content from My-ANI on very popular places, i.e. within the top ten. Our system administrators are reporting fast growing numbers of hits from visitors coming to My-ANI through various search engines and we find that very encouraging.
2. My-ANI Search
   
   When you are already on one of the My-ANI sites and want to search for something specifically, then please enter your search phrase into the search box on the top right of each page within the My-ANI worlds. This search is powered by Google and provides you with results from within the current topic.
3. The Topic Menu
   
   On top of the main content area you can find a topic menu. When you hover your mouse over a topic, another menu drops down presenting you all subtopics and you can either click on the main topic itself or any of the subtopics and My-ANI will present you all the relevant articles.
4. The Topic Cloud
   
   Below the topic menu you can see the topic cloud. It shows you the most popular tags. The more popular a topic has been, the more highlighted (text size, text-weight, color) it gets displayed. Just click on one of the topics and My-ANI shows you all the associated articles together with another list of topics which you can use to refine your search and shorten the list of articles displayed.
5. The My-ANI Archive
   
   The archive helps you to find articles by date. Initially, the current date will be selected after you click on "Topic - Archive" together with a calendar and a list of articles which have been published or updated on the selected day.

Have you got any additional ideas on how you would like to navigate through the huge repositories in the My-ANI World? We'd love to hear from you and want to encourage you to get in touch.

Only 3 months after the initial launch of the first My-ANI guide on wine - which by now is the world's largest news and information guide of its kind on the web - has there been an important milestone: 100.000 articles. Right for Thanksgiving the team around Iain Gaynor has been proud to get to this first significant mark. However, within the next 5 weeks this number will look tiny with hindsight: Any guess what the number of articles will be by the end of 2007? Let us know your estimate and the closest will earn some extra My-ANI points.

It's the eighth guide already - following the recently launched guide on loans and mortgages, My-ANI.com today launched the World Car Guide which comes with more than 2.000 articles on day one. All free and fresh content to the fast growing number of visitors to the My-ANI.com sites.

So what's next? We do of course have a range of topics in the pipeline which will be launched in the next few weeks and months. Our editorial teams are working hard to get the best possible content collected and published to our My-ANI.com community.

What topics would you like to see then? Let us know and we'll see what we can do for you.

My-ANI.com has launched the 7th guide on its fast growing advice, news and information platform which is about loans and mortgages: http://loan-news-info.my-ani.com

This is the first guide that has to deal with localized terminology - where loans and mortgages are very different things in the US and the UK for instance. The powerful navigation system within the My-ANI.com world guides helps the visitors to easily and quickly find the relevant information and of course links to more detailed articles.

The My-ANI.com team is looking for their visitors feedback and invites everybody to visit, register themselves and contribute. Soon, My-ANI.com is going to announce a very exciting reward system to their members. Watch this space.

We've just launched our new guide on Gadgets which is available on http://gadget-news-info.my-ani.com

You're invited to join in, have a look and find out everything about the latest gadgets - every day.

We're also interested in your feedback. So please go to http://gadget-news-info.my-ani.com/contact or join in on our public chat if you have Skype. Last but not least, once you're registered, please feel free to comment on all available articles and tell other people what you think.