ananova.co.uk

As many of you know I work as a DJ, and as part of this work I do some weekly radio shows presenting music and chat to my listeners. Not wanting to sound like an amateur, I do my homework before I go to the radio studio and make sure I have with me the latest news headlines, sports news, entertainment and music news, cinema release news, TV schedules, quirky and funny news items, and facts and trivia items. Now I could easily sit for hours online and browse through numerous sites to find all the information I require, but as this op is going to show you, I don’t have to. Thanks to the beauty ... more

News portals abound across the Internet, from BBC's newspage to Sky News' and on to CNN International. But the one I keep coming back to is Ananova, a British news portal that not only reports on the serious aspects of life, but the quirkier sides of the world too. Ananova, part of mobile giant Orange, offers much the same News service as other sites it competes with, but its interface is immediately refreshing - it's nice and clean, laid out neatly, and not cluttered with adverts and sidelines. Visit Ananova's homepage and you're faced with a clean and crisp white page. At the top, just ... more

Despite sounding as if it is the latest Russian tennis sensation rather than an information provider, Ananova has established itself as one of the www’s most popular British news site. Almost three years old, it mixes the serious side of life with the light-hearted and is a breath of fresh air amongst other more traditional and conventional news services on the Web. One of the quicker sites on the Web (it doesn’t take practically half and hour to load up like the BBC one can do), it has a well organised and simple home-page, with no annoying pop-ups. On first impressions, it is ... more

Apologies, venerable members of Ciao, but difficult disputes over copyrighting of opinions mean that for the time at the least I have had to remove the opinion that used to be posted here. I have to say that had Ciao’s payment structure remained as generous as it was previously then it would not have been the Ciao site that is suffering. However, as I have never received a solitary bean for this opinion despite the reads then I do not believe anyone should hold it against me that I have removed the opinion that was here previously and replaced it with this apology. Not all of my opinions ... more

If you are reading this opinion then you are lucky. No, you’re not at all lucky that you get to suffer the length of this review (or however long it takes to scroll down and rate) but you’re lucky because your computer clearly isn’t infected with the “Magistr” virus. “Magistr” spreads itself in a similar way as the infamous “I Love You” bug, but it randomly renames itself so you can’t tell whether any incoming viruses have it or not just by looking at the title. Rather than being simply content with spreading itself, Magistr ... more