Social networking  has become a personal issue; or more precisely, a question of data and personal information. Billions of names, last names and addresses included in the appropriate registration forms and many life stories written in blogs and gathered on servers around the world. The problem of the diffusion of personal identity becomes increasingly impressive and goes hand in hand with the increase of  social networking of every kind scattered throughout the internet.

On the one hand we have the eternal problem of advertising.

Internet collects an increasing amount of advertising. Rupert Murdoch, who acquired MySpace in 2005, seems convinced to be able to attract the same  audience, in terms of numbers,

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.

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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

Microsoft Corp’s $44, 6 billion bid to acquire Yahoo! has shaken the international web world. Unpredictable and surprising changes in strategy in the still yet to end game, and the hypotheses on possible scenarios that may result from such a financial operation, are quite disconcerting, especially considering the possibility of the suppression of one of Internet’s best peculiarities: freedom.

Microsoft took advantage of Yahoo’s! moment of weakness to come forward with a proposal to acquire Filo and Yang’s company with a $44,6 billion bid, equivalent to $31 per share.

The motivation behind the Hi-Tech giant Redmond’s take-over bid was to definitely limit Google’s power or at least to represent a strong competitor for the High-Tech giant

Facebook, Twitter, MySpace represent the most successful social networks and are enjoying their glory days. They allow their users to manage their social contacts in a very simple way, be informed of news from friends and meet new people.

Facebook, for example, totally satisfies these needs, monitoring your friends’ updates, with a feed reader, or with customized applications.

Today Social networks focus on improving the services their softwares offer users to allow them to track their activities, those of their friends and maintain social contact.

It is fair to say that the present system satisfies one of the main requirements of an online user: social communication and possibility to create a virtual network of

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,