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 to be used on its site.

The initiative was str... Read more..]]> http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/11/06/googles-open-social-platform/feed/ 0 http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/08/29/wikinomics-and-the-wiki-economy/ http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/08/29/wikinomics-and-the-wiki-economy/#comments Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:36:59 +0000 Omar Kattan http://omarkattan.com/2007/08/29/wikinomics-and-the-wiki-economy/

Heading to work today I was reading the Metro newspaper "aka the London Bible" and in it I read an article enti... Read more..]]> http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/08/29/wikinomics-and-the-wiki-economy/feed/ 0 http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/08/07/google-joins-the-oin-ranks/ http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/08/07/google-joins-the-oin-ranks/#comments Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:49:28 +0000 Omar Kattan http://omarkattan.com/2007/08/07/google-joins-the-oin-ranks/

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 charge.

Its worth a mention that Google's technology backg... Read more..]]> http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/08/07/google-joins-the-oin-ranks/feed/ 0 http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/08/05/jimbos-wikia-takes-on-google/ http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/08/05/jimbos-wikia-takes-on-google/#comments Sun, 05 Aug 2007 10:58:24 +0000 Omar Kattan http://omarkattan.com/2007/08/05/jimbos-wikia-takes-on-google/

A few months ago I wrote about building my very own Google using the open source software that is Read more..]]> http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/08/05/jimbos-wikia-takes-on-google/feed/ 0 http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/07/02/word-press-title-tag-optimization/ http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/07/02/word-press-title-tag-optimization/#comments Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:47:03 +0000 Omar Kattan http://omarkattan.com/2007/07/02/word-press-title-tag-optimization/

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 wp_title(); ?><?php bloginfo('name');... Read more..]]> http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/07/02/word-press-title-tag-optimization/feed/ 0 http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/06/25/googles-open-source-ocr/ http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/06/25/googles-open-source-ocr/#comments Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:02:22 +0000 Omar Kattan http://omarkattan.com/2007/06/25/googles-open-source-ocr/ 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... Read more..]]> http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/06/25/googles-open-source-ocr/feed/ 0 http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/06/17/nutch-search-engine-finally-working/ http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/06/17/nutch-search-engine-finally-working/#comments Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:10:48 +0000 Omar Kattan http://omarkattan.com/2007/06/17/nutch-search-engine-finally-working/ If you recall a few weeks back I posted about building your own google Read more..]]> http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/06/17/nutch-search-engine-finally-working/feed/ 1 http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/05/29/building-your-own-google/ http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/05/29/building-your-own-google/#comments Tue, 29 May 2007 17:50:35 +0000 Omar Kattan http://omarkattan.com/2007/05/29/building-your-own-google/ I've recently (two days ago) started experimenting with building my own search engine.  The inspiration came from my experimenting with Google's Co-op Custom Search Engine contraption.

The software I'm using to build my very own Google is Nutch which is an open source web-search software.