March 2011

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Yesterday in the social network LinkedIn’s blog an article was published to announce the achievement of the 100 million users threshold. LinkedIn is the largest professional social network in the world. It was founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003. Over the years it received several investments for a total of over $100 million and in 2006 it started having profits from advertising and the sale of Premium services.

William Shatner in 2005

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William Alan Shatner was born on March 22, 1931 in Côte Saint-Luc, near Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He’s most famous for playin Captain James T. Kirk in the Star Trek saga but lately he had great success in playing the lawyer Denny Crane.

Man of Earth by Algis Budrys (Italian edition)

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“Man of Earth” is a novel by Algis Budrys published for the first time in 1958. It starts in 2197 on an Earth more and more closed in on itself. After a period of expansion in the solar system in which colonies were set up on Venus and Pluto the earthlings’ laziness had encouraged the mother planet’s inhabitants to leave the settlers on their own.

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On Tuesday March 22 the Euroleague 2010/2011 quarterfinals will start. This round will be played in a playoff series to the best of five games in which each team that was ranked first in their group will face one of the Top 16 teams that finished second in another group.