Category Archives: Open Source Software

and everything to do with open source software

Google’s Open Social Platform

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on November 6, 2007. Filed under Open Source Software, Social Networking. No comments.

Google has announced the launch of the “Open Social” application initaitive which will allow developers to write application that can work across various social networking such as Linkedin, friendster, Google’s own Orkut.  This announcement is regarded by analysts as a defensive move towards Facebook’s mammoth growth in the past few month since it allowed developers to write applications [...]

Wikinomics and the Wiki Economy

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on August 29, 2007. Filed under Book Reviews, Open Source Software. No comments.
wikinomics - the book

Heading to work today I was reading the Metro newspaper “aka the London Bible” and in it I read an article entitled Wikinomics. Back at home this eveing I Googled Wikinomics and got this site http://www.wikinomics.com/.  I was intrigued so I read on.  Basically this site is about the book that explains what wikinomics is [...]

Google Joins the OIN Ranks

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on August 7, 2007. Filed under Open Source Software. No comments.

Google has today joined the Open Invention Network (OIN),  a patent-sharing organization founded to create a legally protected environment for anyone who works with Linux. The basic concept behind OIN is that all licensees as well as participants such as IBM, Oracle, NEC and Sony, agree to cross-license their Linux-based patents to the other licensees free of [...]

Jimbo’s Wikia Takes on Google

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on August 5, 2007. Filed under Open Source Software, Search News. No comments.

A few months ago I wrote about building my very own Google using the open source software that is Nutch.  I actually did it but had to remove it from my server because the crawling sessions occupied too much space and resources on my server and caused it to crash a few times. This is one [...]

Word Press Title Tag Optimization

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on July 2, 2007. Filed under Code, Open Source Software, SEO. No comments.

Here a quick tip to help you optimise your Word Press title tag so that it becomes more search engine friendly. Login to your site using your favourite ftp application. Open the header.php file, it can be found in root > wp-content > themes > your theme. Find: <title><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?><?php wp_title(); ?></title> Replace with  : <title><?php [...]