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		<title>Online Privacy: Be Afraid, Be Eternally Afraid!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 19:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.omarkattan.com/2011/11/26/online-privacy-be-afraid-be-eternally-afraid/" alt="Online Privacy: Be Afraid, Be Eternally Afraid!"><img src="http://www.omarkattan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/st-peter-ipad.jpg" align="left" alt="Online Privacy: Be Afraid, Be Eternally Afraid!" hspace="5" vspace="5" border="0" /></a>[caption id="attachment_3472" align="alignright" width="339" caption="St. Peter Checking in Steve Jobs at Gates of Heaven - Picture Courtesy of New Yorker Magazine"]<a href="http://www.omarkattan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/st-peter-ipad.jpg"></a>[/caption]

They say that Saint Peter keeps a record of every scrap of information about each of our lives in his Big Black Book. They’re wrong;... <a href="http://www.omarkattan.com/2011/11/26/online-privacy-be-afraid-be-eternally-afraid/">Read more..</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media Optimisation (SMO) &#8211; The Dell Example</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.omarkattan.com/2009/11/16/social-media-optimisation-smo-the-dell-example/" alt="Social Media Optimisation (SMO) - The Dell Example"><img src="http://www.grassroots.com/images/blog/7339556/smm-logos.png" align="left" alt="Social Media Optimisation (SMO) - The Dell Example" hspace="5" vspace="5" border="0" /></a>There are several ways to attract traffic to a website.  These include Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), Pay Per Click (PPC) and Social Media Optimisation (SMO).  According to the Wikipedia, Social media optimization is


a set of methods for attracting visitors to website content by promoting and publicizing it through social media. SMO is a subset of social media marketing, which is promoting and publicizing products and services in general through social media. SMO is one of two online methods of optimizing (attracting visitors to) website content; the other meth... <a href="http://www.omarkattan.com/2009/11/16/social-media-optimisation-smo-the-dell-example/">Read more..</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Working at Google : Life at the Googleplex</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/06/22/working-at-google-life-at-the-googleplex/" alt="Working at Google : Life at the Googleplex"><img src="http://cdn.iconfinder.net/data/icons/pleasant/JPEG-Image.png" align="left" alt="Working at Google : Life at the Googleplex" hspace="5" vspace="5" border="0" /></a>1,300 resumes a day, is yours one of them?  Watch this Oprah clip about working at Google and ask yourself this question...

Why haven't I applied yet?

Enjoy the clip: 

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Read these <a target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/reasons.html" title="top 10 reasons to work at google">Top 10 reasons to work at Google</a>, check out the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/static.py?page=benefits.html" title="benefits of working at google">benefits of working at Google</a>, and  <a href="http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/06/22/working-at-google-life-at-the-googleplex/">Read more..</a>]]></description>
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		<title>A sleepless night</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/05/26/hello-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
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My name is Omar Kattan and this is my first blog.   Funny really since I work in search and I probably should have had one of these niftty things a long long time ago! Well, better late than never I say. 

Anyway... The reason I started this blog was because I recently bought my own name's domain name (omarkattan.com) and wanted to use it for something so I thought.. maybe a blog would be a good idea!  And so here we are...

Its actually 3:19 in the morning now and I couldn't sleep so I figured I'll stay up and start posting my first entry,  so here it is...... <a href="http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/05/26/hello-world/">Read more..</a>]]></description>
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