There have been only few news articles in the last month. Nevertheless, we’ve worked behind the scenes to further improve aniwai.com. Here’s a small status update:

• The maps are much smoother now and don’t flicker anymore.
• Erich is working on aniwhere that will bring aniwai.com onto your mobile phone. More details will be published upon release.
• The improved galleries with drag-and-drop support are nearly finished.
• A new starting page is in the works.

Even though a week has passed since New Year's Day we'd like to wish you all a happy new 2008! We'd like to thank all our members for their support and we hope to see more in the new year.

Some presents

You might have already noticed the most obvious change: a neat new "Terrain" map layer that shows a map relief. We have been working hard behind the scenes and there are some really cool new features on the way:

• new title page with a larger map
• new gallery pages with drag and drop and other great improvements
• better interaction of blogs and gallery
• and more

Erich and Martin

Thanks to Google we can now provide better maps for Afghanistan, Aruba, The Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belize, Bermuda, Brunei, Bhutan, Bolivia, Cambodia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Fiji, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Mexico, Myanmar (Burma), Mongolia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, East Timor, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, and Yemen. Enjoy!

• Rewrote all javascript and updated to JQuery
• Added a tab functionality to Blogs and Galleries to improve interaction
• Redid the interface for Galleries: Works with drag-and-drop now
• Added some functions to the "Edit profile" page
• Geolinking for pictures and users
• New frontend for messages
• Debugging
• Added some dialogue pages to improve usability

• Updated the WIKI functionality.
• Set up a basic Forum
• Improvements in design and usability
• Added markers to the map
• Implemented a clustering algorithm for displaying the markers

• The personal blogs do work now
• Emails notify you automatically if someone sends you a message or would like to be your friend
• You can switch off this email functionality in your profile settings
• There is a wiki system now. If you are a registered user you are allowed to add wiki articles to our world map or change existing ones
• The "Forgot your password" functionality works now

We're getting there... :)

• We moved aniwai.com to a dedicated server
• You can follow the development using our brandnew news page.
  (also available as RSS and Atom news feeds)
• Implemented better validation for the sign up page
• You can edit your profile information now using the ''edit your profile'' link
• Invite your friends with the new ''add to friends'' function on the user pages
• Now, you can send personal messages to other aniwai.com users
• Basic blog functionality has been added
• Search on home page is working for users and pictures
• For security reasons new Accounts will be verified using an activation system

The wiki and georeferencing functions are about to come soon. Stay tuned!