In todays world of information overload people want to keep pace with update of lot websites, blogs and other resources. RSS comes as boon for such people.
June 8, 2005 (Press Release) --
What is RSS?
RSS stands for 'Really Simple syndication' or 'Rich Site Summary'. RSS is a XML format for syndicating web content like headlines, update notices, logs, news etc. It was designed by Netscape originally.
Why is RSS needed?
In todays world of information overload people want to keep pace with update of lot websites, blogs and other resources. RSS comes as boon for such people. It gives them notification of these updates in the form of a small snippet, which contains title and a small description of the updated stories.
Newsletter emails were and are used for such purpose in past. RSS turns the concept of newsletters on its head by letting people pull the news and updates from site rather than publisher pushing them to people’s inboxes.
How to access RSS feeds?
RSS feeds can be accessed by programs called RSS aggregators. These are the programs that pull the feeds from websites at regular intervals. These programs can standalone, part of browser, mail client or a website. It’s available as a plug-in to Firefox, Opera and Mozilla. IE 7 is touted to include RSS aggregator
How to find RSS feeds?
RSS feeds can found using various directories of RSS feeds
http://www.2rss.com/
http://www.syndic8.com/
http://dir.nooked.com/home.dir
http://www.webdevtips.com/webdevtips/resources/rssdir.php
http://www.feedster.com/
RSS feeds can be found by looking for orange button that says XML or RSS. Many RSS aggregators also comes preconfigured with few RSS feeds from popular news and other websites
What are RSS Aggregators?
RSS aggregators are the programs or websites that check update of RSS feeds for new items at periodic intervals and alerts use about new feeds. This gives ability to check update to the websites without actually visiting them.
How are RSS feeds generated?
Most of the sites that have RSS feeds are usually managed by content management system that updates news and other sections of the website. These programs while updating other content also update the RSS feeds, update of which is tracked by RSS Aggregators.
Various softwares are available which allows a website owner to create RSS feeds for their site. ListGarden is one of such open source software available for Windows, Mac OS and Linux.
Practical uses of RSS
Products update notification.
Websites updates.
Track blogs update.
Check news updates.
In coming articles I would review some RSS readers like FeedReader, FeedDemon and RSS generators and then hands on example to create RSS feed.
Manoj Nahar
http://www.naharonline.com
RSS stands for 'Really Simple syndication' or 'Rich Site Summary'. RSS is a XML format for syndicating web content like headlines, update notices, logs, news etc. It was designed by Netscape originally.
Why is RSS needed?
In todays world of information overload people want to keep pace with update of lot websites, blogs and other resources. RSS comes as boon for such people. It gives them notification of these updates in the form of a small snippet, which contains title and a small description of the updated stories.
Newsletter emails were and are used for such purpose in past. RSS turns the concept of newsletters on its head by letting people pull the news and updates from site rather than publisher pushing them to people’s inboxes.
How to access RSS feeds?
RSS feeds can be accessed by programs called RSS aggregators. These are the programs that pull the feeds from websites at regular intervals. These programs can standalone, part of browser, mail client or a website. It’s available as a plug-in to Firefox, Opera and Mozilla. IE 7 is touted to include RSS aggregator
How to find RSS feeds?
RSS feeds can found using various directories of RSS feeds
http://www.2rss.com/
http://www.syndic8.com/
http://dir.nooked.com/home.dir
http://www.webdevtips.com/webdevtips/resources/rssdir.php
http://www.feedster.com/
RSS feeds can be found by looking for orange button that says XML or RSS. Many RSS aggregators also comes preconfigured with few RSS feeds from popular news and other websites
What are RSS Aggregators?
RSS aggregators are the programs or websites that check update of RSS feeds for new items at periodic intervals and alerts use about new feeds. This gives ability to check update to the websites without actually visiting them.
How are RSS feeds generated?
Most of the sites that have RSS feeds are usually managed by content management system that updates news and other sections of the website. These programs while updating other content also update the RSS feeds, update of which is tracked by RSS Aggregators.
Various softwares are available which allows a website owner to create RSS feeds for their site. ListGarden is one of such open source software available for Windows, Mac OS and Linux.
Practical uses of RSS
Products update notification.
Websites updates.
Track blogs update.
Check news updates.
In coming articles I would review some RSS readers like FeedReader, FeedDemon and RSS generators and then hands on example to create RSS feed.
Manoj Nahar
http://www.naharonline.com
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