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

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