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	<title>Omar Kattan &#187; Open Source Software</title>
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	<description>search in a nutshell</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>Wikinomics and the Wiki Economy</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/08/29/wikinomics-and-the-wiki-economy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heading to work today I was reading the Metro newspaper &#8220;aka the London Bible&#8221; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Joins the OIN Ranks</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/08/07/google-joins-the-oin-ranks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jimbo&#8217;s Wikia Takes on Google</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/08/05/jimbos-wikia-takes-on-google/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/08/05/jimbos-wikia-takes-on-google/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 10:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Search News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Word Press Title Tag Optimization</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/07/02/word-press-title-tag-optimization/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/07/02/word-press-title-tag-optimization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Code]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open Source Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#62; wp-content &#62; themes &#62; your theme. Find: &#60;title&#62;&#60;?php bloginfo(&#8216;name&#8217;); ?&#62;&#60;?php wp_title(); ?&#62;&#60;/title&#62; Replace with  : &#60;title&#62;&#60;?php [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s Open Source OCR</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/06/25/googles-open-source-ocr/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/06/25/googles-open-source-ocr/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Open Source Software]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[OCR -Optical character recognition- is a type of software designed to translate images of handwritten or typewritten text (usually captured by a scanner) into machine-editable text. OCR also has the capability to translate pictures of characters into a standard encoding scheme representing them (e.g. ASCII or Unicode). Why am I blogging about OCR?  Well because Google has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nutch Search Engine Finally Working!</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/06/17/nutch-search-engine-finally-working/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you recall a few weeks back I posted about building your own google, well I finally did it, my very own google search engine is finally up and running. It was not an easy job at all, and very very frustrating at times but very rewarding indeed! There are still some issues that need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building your own Google</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/05/29/building-your-own-google/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 17:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Open Source Software]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently (two days ago) started experimenting with building my own search engine.  The inspiration came from my experimenting with Google&#8217;s Co-op Custom Search Engine contraption. The software I&#8217;m using to build my very own Google is Nutch which is an open source web-search software.  Nutch builds on Lucene Java, adding web-specifics, such as a crawler, [...]]]></description>
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