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

Interaction and sharing: these have become the web’s keywords.
A totally new way to conceive Internet where the center of the world is ‘you’. User? Surfer? Consumer? Not anymore, or at least, not only. Surfing the net is no longer limited to benefiting from “institutional” contents, chatting and checking your email; today internet denotes social network, blog, wiki, vod and podcasting. This allows anyone who can operate a mouse, to publish his/her contents, comment on someone else’s, be responsible for their circulation, start social relations based on common interests, exchange ideas, knowledge, audio and video files.

The Web has been headed in the last few years, in a very precise direction: web 2.0

Before stepping forward toward an international social network, Qbr looks back for a moment and publishes a research paper on online communication evolution. From internet creation to the chat line, from dating to social networking, the history of a life that evolves through the wires and materializes on computer screens, with the end result of actually connecting real people. In school they teach us the importance of history, because the knowledge of the past helps us to interpret the present and points us in the right direction towards the future: actually this thought popped into our minds when we decided to embark on an investigation of the origins of web socialization.

So,

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

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