Monday, March 19, 2007

What is RSS ?

What is RSS !

Have you seen these images on any site and you are not aware of what is it ???



Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0)
Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0)

RSS (Really Simple Syndication also known as Rich Site Summary) 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. You can subscribe an rss feed. On similar lines is an Atom, its also the same thing, with a different name you can say.

How do i open RSS feeds?

You need a reader or aggregators that will do it for you. 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).

Google is not behind in this war too. try www.reader.google.com and you can use the RSS reader provided by Google.
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A small story about Goolge News.

Google is not a News channel, they were technologists and they are technologists. No where linked to news agencies but are famous for making news.

Ever wondered why is google news so famous. Ha Ha - this is what technology can do.

RSS is what is behind their technology. Almost every news channel has an RSS feed. What google does is, they pick the latest RSS feeds intelligently
from websites around the world and incorporate it in their www.news.google.com
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Once you have your Feed Reader, it is a matter of 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.

Want more traffic? An easy way to distribute your news? Then you need an RSS news feed. To start all you need is content you want broadcast, and one RSS text file.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

this is really good work Sami! keep it going! now i know where to turn to if i want some coherent info about something like RSS! why don't you put in a "demand" section in your blogs man? then, instead of writing a comment i could just state what i wanted info about!