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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

RSS Feed

What RSS actually is?
RSS stands for Rich Site Summary. RSS is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it. they easily find it here.
Benefits of RSS
People who regularly use the web, RSS solves their problems. RSS allows you to easily stay informed by retrieving the latest content from the sites you are interested in on internet. You dont need to visit each site individually. you can save time with the help of RSS. You ensure your privacy and you dont need to join each site's email newsletter. The number of sites offering RSS feeds is growing rapidly . On internet, big names like Yahoo News also using RSS. Feed Reader or News Aggregator software allow you to grab the RSS feeds from various sites and display them for you to read and you can use that also.

Some popular feed readers
A variety of RSS Readers are available for different platforms. Some popular feed readers include Amphetadesk (Windows, Linux, Mac), FeedReader (Windows), and NewsGator (Windows - integrates with Outlook). There are also a number of web-based feed readers available. My Yahoo, Bloglines, and Google Reader are popular web-based feed readers.

Feed Reader is very helpful . RSS helps you in finding sites that syndicate content and adding their RSS feed to the list of feeds your Feed Reader checks. Many sites display a small icon with the acronyms RSS, XML, or RDF to let you know a feed is available. Different RSS Feed icons look like this as in image. you can choose of your choice.

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for posting all of this wonderful info. Rss really had me confused. :)

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