Starting from 1971 until today, this pretty infographic created by copyblogger retraces the social network history.
Take a look very fast, because tomorrow it could be outdated.

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Many news from the Microsoft world at TechEd Europe 2012, concerning the products to come: Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8.
There were interesting sessions about the vision of the future by Microsoft, regarding server products and in particular about clouding by Windows Azure.
My main interests were on another subject, that is Windows 8, the new Metro user interface and the business opportunities on the client side. I arrived in Amsterdam with many doubts, many misunderstandings about these new technologies; now, 4 days later, I have a more clear vision.

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They were in the hundreds to watch the Daniela Colzani fashion show, a young Brazilian specialized in Fashion Design in Milan and winner of the 2010 European competition "The Link", organized by the Sea exhibition Fashion in Cannes.

Special testimonial at Old Fashion Cafè in Milan could only be the compatriot Queen of Rio Carnival, Ana Paula Evangelista.

Daniela Colzani draws, cuts and sewes couture corsets carrying on a process of exaltation of the female figure. Thus she achieves the aesthetic ideals that define a world that seems far away, but that sometimes resurfaces to make us understand that certain parameters remain constant. Although in recent years anorexic models walked the runway, the "squeezed" and "stretched" are always in the everyday.

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Durex launches a worldwide contest between creatives, to design packages that go beyond the usual sunsets or romantic couples holding hands. In Milan during Design Week, Durex exhibits along the hot districts of the event, five huge boxes designed by IED (European Institute of Design) students. The works demonstrate exceptional capabilities of illustration, but nonetheless a creative imagination: we liked so much the Plexiglas covered box with a sign "to use in case of hot situation."

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Being in Milan these days means feeling the fresh air that envelops creativeness.
Despite the institutional event is the Salone del Mobile in Milan Rho Fair, it is the city streets that we live innovation: entire neighborhoods transformed into workshops and showcases on international design.

The Fuorisalone has become so well known that the big manufacturers aspire to attend more in the city area (see Porta Genova or Brera) rather than at the fair. There is still room for the young creative independents that rent disused garages or old warehouses to exhibit their works, for example in the Lambrate area.

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