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

The time is almost here: in just a few days Qbr will become Ciao People.

What are we doing during the anxious wait?  Letting our community know about this change, or at least making them aware that something is about to happen.

And we’ve decided to do so in a unique way: Starting from today,  on www.qbr.it, every subscribor will be able to  to watch a short video that anticipates “the disappearance of Qbr. A video   created by “the jackall”, a young group of neapolitans, best known on the web for their parodies of famous movies. The intriguing and  exciting video  mimics Hollywood horror film previews.

Qbr is about to change its identity

Qbr.it changes. In form and in substance. Together with a new platform that will give our users new and more entertaining  features, the social network gets a new name and logo, specially designed for us by Sergio Esposito, art director of Nascar (the  Neapolitan Communication Company than ran the portal until 2007) and of infamous creativity.
It is in this context that Ciao People arises, the new identity of a community that already exists but will live through  extraordinary changes that make it more appealing, comfortable, and most of all bigger and more engaging.
We chose a name that was able to represent  the typical values that emphasize the concept of social network (socializing, friendship, community)

One month after launching Ciaoblog, the corporate blog of Ciaopeople, we have thought it right to do the due introducing. Informal introductions are more suitable for this new and powerful mean of corporate communication and we want to use them to symbolically shake hands with our customers, with the big internet world and even with our competitors.

We think it right to start by introducing the name of our company, Ciaopeople, which is not the result of a mere fortuitousness or of a flash of inspiration but it has been conceived after a close analysis of what we wanted to communicate and to represent to our customers.

Actually we could choose among thousand

Ciaopeople staff is pleased to announce a new milestone reached by Qbr.it:  400 thousand registered users and a constantly increasing trend that  rewards us for the  effort we put into  to the qbr  community.

In June 2006,  with Qbr, we celebrated 100 thousand subscribers in southern Italy. Since then the community has never ceased to grow at a constantly increasing rate: two hundred  thousand users in February 2007, three hundred  thousand in September, and today, only six months after reaching our last milestone, four hundred  thousand.

However,  our CEO, Gianluca Cozzolino, reminds us “we are only at the beginning of this great challenge” and he goes on to point out “what is significant  here is not  so

Ciaoblog.net is a space dedicated to the direct communication with Ciaopeople staff.

Both in its graphic design and in its contents, we wanted this space to reflect our spirit and enthusiasm; we wanted a space dedicated to sharing and communication with others, where we could talk about ourselves and confront each other. In a few words: a business blog.

“We designed Ciaoblog as a special area to get in touch with us in a very simple and direct way- our CEO, Gianluca Cozzolino says- A blog conceived as both a business communication tool and discussions area, to interact with people with our same interests and curiosities.”

On Ciaoblog, in fact, we’ll write about Ciaopeople, about

For the project of the new international portal, Qbr chooses stability, flexibility, and safety provided by Linux, but mostly it relies on the expertise of Antonio Calabrese, Linux System Manager for Qbr.it, who says: “The greatest and most renowned web projects use Linux, such as Wikipedia, Dmoz and Google.”

Antonio Calabrese, in addition to being highly competent in Linux systems, boasts a long career in the management of complex infrastructures and high traffic portals. After obtaining the Cisco CCNA certificate, he worked in the Unix and Linux servers management and mostly in web environment for eight years. He is currently the Linux/Unix advisor for prestigious companies such as Enel S.p.a.

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