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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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

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

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