Described as having the best of Facebook’s social networking features and YouTube’s video handling features, anaalan is launched in October, as beta, by the well-known Lebanese television personality Zaven Kouyoumdjian, with construction by KnowledgeView’s engineers using open-source technologies integrated with KnowledgeView’s Publish live solutions.

The Anaalaan.com Web site is linked to www.fareeda.info news service, via RSS feeds, so that those registered to fareeda’s Select and Enterprise services can be notified of new video uploads, with summaries, as they happen.

Anaalaan (MeNow) was originally launched as a pioneer reality TV experience in Zaven’s "Sire Wenfatahit" talk show on the Lebanese Future Television. The Web site allows youngsters, mostly in the Middle East, to upload videos on issues of concern to them, linked to social networking features.

Zavenfanclub.com kicked the first episode of the show on air in January 2006, soon afterwards thousands of candidates applied to speak out. However, only 200 made it on TV.

The show provided those with Sony Handycams and asked them to film their daily lives for a month.
The participants came back with tens of tapes from bathroom to playground and "Sire Wenfatahit" producers were so busy watching films and selecting three minute clips to be aired on TV. Longer versions were posted on anaalaan website.

Astonishing, shocking and breathtaking stories as well as funny and boring ones added a new flavour to the show and featured stories never before told on any Arab television.
Zaven declares on the Web site: “anaalaan now is back… bigger... reinvented, independent and for all!
Join this experience. Share your stories with millions of people like you around the world and feel free to make the best out of it."

- Have a look at the first generation of anaalaan.com