Global Voices was born in 2004 during a conference of bloggers that took place at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School, from an idea of Ethan Zuckerman, co-founder of Tripod, Rebecca MacKinnon, former CNN correspondent in China .

“Giving voice to those who have no voice”, this is the motto of the citizen journalism project which has promoted Global Voices since 2004. Their slogan alone is enough to portray how serious the commitment of the team of bloggers and translators is against global society, it is a complex endeavor  and to try to practice it  every day is a continuing challenge.

Global Voices is one of the most interesting 

On the eve of the new platform going online, qbr.it  did not let us down and gave us enormous satisfaction. There will be 500 thousand switching from Qbr to Ciaopeople.

After the access peaks obtained by the magazine and the year of evolution of the entire portal, we are also celebrating half a million subscribers.

A new milestone that confirms the upward trend in social networking scanned at a rate of 100 thousand subscribers every 6 months: in just 2 years we have gone from 100 thousand to 500 thousand registered users.

A chat that was initiated along the streets of Naples, gathering consensus in Neapolitan youngsters and that soon turned into a real social network of

After publishing the statistics of Qbr Magazine, some Ciaoblog readers have contacted us , inquiring about data concerning the whole social network. To the request of publishing Qbr data, we  obediently respond with this post.
And besides being obedient we are also proud of the results achieved.
Qbr.it is proof that a product that is born naturally limited to  a given territory, is bound to spread to new markets if the formula works and if it works well for that  particular goal. Thus, even if the community has its roots in Parthenopean youth, this social network is becoming a italian reality, with subscribers from throughout the boot, and especially in Lazio, Lombardy and Emilia

Time may be your best friend if you work for an online magazine and you are the first to get the news . It so happened yesterday at Qbr Magazine: after the publication of “Naples boos Gigi d’Alessio” written by Luca Morieri immediately after the Pino Daniele concert on  July 8 in Plebiscito Square in Naples.

The news of the explosion of boos that the “new-melodic” singer received by the public in his hometown has had a national resonance, also thanks to the news channel Rai whose direct news coverage of the event did not report on the boos but jumped to an different coverage.

Qbr was the first to report the event

Finally, Adobe has announced that they have been sitting around a table with Google and Yahoo with the aim of “opening” the contents of the Flash SWF files to the public.
The 2 search engines will have the technology of Adobe Flash Player through which they will be able to  access any type of information contained in this file type.

The index of the file contents  in Flash at the moment presents several limitations, including:

1. flash files are seen as elements / distinct pages simply linked to  the page that contains them and are completely independent from the context of the page.

2. links are seen by search engines as simple URLs  and so

Sometimes we must act before thinking.

Precisely for this reason it is necessary to immediately proceed with subscription to the online seminar:

Google Trifecta
Tuesday, July 8, 17.00 (Italian time)

An event that brings  together all of our development teams:

1.  Google Webmaster Tools
2. Google Analytics
3. Google Website Optimizer

to present the use of these  well known instruments, introduce the latest features and illustrate how they interact to their fullest potential.

Of course, as with any respectable seminar, participants will have the opportunity to  interact with the developers. Even during the registration phase one may propose a topic or ask a question (in my registration I requested an explanation  on the mysteries  involved in the management of a large number