RSS – Really simple syndication
RSS is a data format used for providing content updation to users in net. It is used in blogs, news portals, and websites to provide summaries or full descriptions of the new content. In this way the user will not be disconnected from the latest changes and happenings. RSS makes it possible for people to keep up with web sites in an automated manner that can be piped into special programs or filtered displays. Its different from book marking in which the user has only a link about a particular webpage or site and to check whether that website has updated its content or not the user has to go that site and check it all by himself. It will be a tiresome job if your list contains a number of websites or if it’s a big site with lots of content. Subscribing to the RSS feeds is a viable option in this regard as the updated contents from all the sites specified will be sent to user. It can be in the form of summary or a full text depending on the site user has the subscription.
Subscribing to RSS doesn’t need submission of E-mail ID, in this way security concerns won’t be an issue to subscribing to RSS feeds.
The user subscribes to a feed by entering the feed’s link into the reader or by clicking an RSS icon in a browser that initiates the subscription process. The RSS reader checks the user’s subscribed feeds regularly for new content, downloads any updates that it finds, and provides a user interface to monitor and read the feeds. The format used in web feed is XML.
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