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Feb 27

Qbr: a success testified by 400 thousand users

2008 at 17,07 autore published by ciaopeople

Ciaopeople staff is pleased to announce a new milestone reached by Qbr.it400 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

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Jan 31

With Ciaoblog, Ciaopeople turns into blogger

2008 at 12,28 autore published by ciaopeople

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

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Nov 27

Qbr chooses Linux: a free software for a free community

2007 at 12,05 autore published by ciaopeople

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.

Linux is the kernel designed by

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Oct 19

On Qbr casting secrets, with ilCandidato.tv

2007 at 11,46 autore published by ciaopeople

New partnership for Qbr.it: this time we enter in the world of tv and movie casting with ilCandidato.tv. Inside Qbr magazine, under the Cinema Tv section, a new sub-channel will inform the community on tv and movie news and casting.

Aspiring actors, singers, contenders, TV viewers can keep up to date on the glossy world of their dreams.

ilCandidato.tv is the first Italian social network dedicated to casting. Created by Endemol and developed in cooperation with YAM112003 (in partnership with Digital Multimedia, Nascar and Open Mark), it was launched in January 2007 on the Qbr platform community. It also includes a media center in flash (where you can find community users audiences and

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Oct 03

Qbr recounts: Our partnership with Google AdSense

2007 at 11,41 autore published by ciaopeople

Let’ take a moment and consider the importance of the Google partnership for Qbr: an interview with Gianluca Cozzolino, published on October 4th on the Italian Google AdSense Blog, presents not only an opportunity to describe Qbr experience with AdSense’s “contextual advertising” , but also a chance to recount three years of cooperation with Google.

AdSense is a new and innovative advertising program made available by Google to web publishers since 2003.
It allows publishing ads and banners on websites, thanks to a program that makes the advertising contextual: the ads that appear to internet users occupy little space and pertain to single pages subjects, guaranteeing a high click potential. This way the

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Sep 26

A partnership between Qbr and Gay.tv

2007 at 11,36 autore published by ciaopeople

Qbr and Gay .tv editorial staffs created a partnership promoting a weekly exchange of homosexual contents and themes.

Every week, Gay.tv Magazine will feature an article written by our editors. While the theme channel “Love Sex” of Qbr Magazine, (a space dedicated to love and eroticism), can rely on a new sub-channel, entirely managed by Gay.tv staff, Qbr decided to make the most of the collaboration and open its doors to the Gay community.

The Gay.tv website, currently managed by Yam 112003, a society belonging to the Endemol Italy group, aims to complete the editorial project started in May 2002, with the first satellite channel entirely dedicated to the homosexual universe. Since then, Gay.tv, thanks

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Sep 18

The Charge of 300.000 users

2007 at 11,32 autore published by ciaopeople

Qbr online community is about to reach 300.000 users.
The event will be celebrated with the airing of a humorous commercial, that can be watched when the portal opens in September 2007. The commercial headline is “The Charge of 300.000 users”, ironically, defining the extraordinary ever increasing crowd of the community, with a comic book style representation of its “tribe”.

Founded in December 2003 and managed by Nascar (Neapolitan Internet Company leader in projecting visual identities, online communication and web-marketing) since 2004, Qbr has become one of the main national communities and the most popular social network in central and southern Italy.

The 300.000 milestone follows, by a few months, the birth of a magazine, (a

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Jul 24

July 25th, 2007- Qbr community, www.qbr.it with its 270.000 registered users, 80.000 daily accesses and 2.200.000 web-pages visited every day, is the largest reality in the central-southern Italy and among the most important in the nation.

Based on visual chat, the activities of Qbr social network features 3800 simultaneous users online. The community staff awards such loyalty with a range of services and features to grant a great deal of entertainment and virtual interaction.

Each user can access “My home”, a space where it is possible to upload photos, videos, keep a list of friends, read received messages and monitor personal popularity based on the number of visits to each profile.

Qbr is also a rich

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