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		<title>Real Time Search &#8211; The Twitter Model</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2009/05/27/real-time-search-the-twitter-model/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 07:38:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Think back, way back.  Remember when Alta Vista was senonomous with search?  How time flies.  Google came along and re-defined what search means and the rest is history, or is it? Is Twitter the next Google?  Maybe not yet, but to a large extent, Twitter is re-defining what search is by introducing the concept of Real Time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s Open Social Platform</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/11/06/googles-open-social-platform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google has announced the launch of the &#8220;Open Social&#8221; application initaitive which will allow developers to write application that can work across various social networking such as Linkedin, friendster, Google&#8217;s own Orkut.  This announcement is regarded by analysts as a defensive move towards Facebook&#8217;s mammoth growth in the past few month since it allowed developers to write applications [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google My World &#8211; Another Second Life?</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/10/05/google-my-world-another-second-life/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/10/05/google-my-world-another-second-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google is reportedly building an avatar-based, Google Earth mashup, a virtual reality designed to compete against the likes of secondlife.com.  The rumoured name for this new virtual reality is though to be &#8220;MyWorld&#8221;. Similar to Second Life, &#8220;My World&#8221; would allow users to create an avatar of themselves, as well as build virtual homes, watch concerts, play [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bebo &amp; Yahoo! announce strategic partnership</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/09/13/bebo-yahoo-announce-strategic-partnership/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/09/13/bebo-yahoo-announce-strategic-partnership/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:27:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yahoo! and Bebo, the UK&#8217;s largest social network, have forged an exclusive strategic partnership.  As a result, Yahoo! will sell the majority of Bebo&#8217;s display advertising in the UK and Ireland. This is Yahoo!&#8217;s first agreement of its kind with a social networking site, which will substantially increase the inventory available to it. This partnership [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Makes Profiles Public</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/09/10/facebook-makes-profiles-public/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In another controversial move, Facebook has decided to make its members&#8217; profiles public, meaning that search engines are now free to index the site and list the millions of profiles in its database and available for search engines users. However, Facebook did give its users the option to block search engines from indexing their profile. This controversial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YouTube&#8217;s New In-Video Ad Format</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/08/22/youtube-new-in-video-ad-format/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/08/22/youtube-new-in-video-ad-format/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google announced today that it will be launching a new &#8220;in-video&#8221; ad format on its sister site YouTube.  The new ad format is supposed to be 10 times more effective than the existing ad formats.  The new ads will be in the form of &#8220;animated overlays that appear on the bottom 20 percent of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digg Dumps Google Ads for MSN</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/07/26/digg-dumps-google-ads-for-msn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/07/26/digg-dumps-google-ads-for-msn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social networking site Digg has dropped Google Ads on its site for rival Microsoft AdCenter.  The details of the deal were not disclosed as both companies declined to comment. Digg is MS AdCenter&#8217;s second high profile social networking client, the first was Facebook which was signed up a year ago.  This is what Steve Berkowitz, a senior VP of Microsoft&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Lawsuit &#8211; Stolen Idea?</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/07/23/facebook-lawsuit-stolen-idea/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/07/23/facebook-lawsuit-stolen-idea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Zuckerberg is facing a lawsuit for allegedly stealing the idea and source code behind the internet phenomena that is Facebook. The lawsuit was brought about 3 years ago by 3 of Mark&#8217;s Harvard fellow student who claim they hired Zuckerberg to help them build the site that was to be named ConnectU.  The 3 claimants, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MySpace to Rival YouTube</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/06/29/myspace-to-rival-youtube/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/06/29/myspace-to-rival-youtube/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:38:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Networking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[MySpace has announced that it will upgrade the video service it currently has offers on its site.  The upgrade will include a move to a seperate domain (MySpaceTV).  The new site is supposed to rival YouTube in terms of service, presentation and content.  MySpaceTV will be available to all MySpace users wether or not they have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YouTube in 9 New Markets</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/06/22/youtube-in-9-new-markets/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/06/22/youtube-in-9-new-markets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Networking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the recent Google press event in Paris, YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen announced the launch of YouTube in 9 new markets/languages, these include Brazil, France, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Ireland, and the UK. The launch of Youtube in these 9 new markets is part of Google&#8217;s strategy to begin delivering ads targeted at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yahoo to buy Facebook?</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/06/07/yahoo-to-buy-facebook/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/06/07/yahoo-to-buy-facebook/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 09:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg appears to be holding out for $2bn on a business he founded only 7 years ago.  Not bad for a recently-turned 23-year-old Harvard dropout!  The rumoured buyer, Yahoo! is not commenting on the news  (understandebly, as it&#8217;s also rumored that a previous offer from Yahoo ($1.65 bil) for Facebook had already been rejected by the Social Networking giant). [...]]]></description>
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