What is an RSS Feed?
RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication.” RSS is a way for Web sites to share their content with their Guests. Additionally, RSS provides Web users the ability to access all their favorite content, news and information without visiting dozens of Web sites -instead, it now enables you to go to one place. With RSS, Wondertime content that you select is automatically delivered directly to you, and can be turned on or off at any time. Think of it like a DVR (Example – TiVo) for the Web. Guests can either read the content directly, or if they like, they can download software so that they can include Wondertime content on their own Web site with attribution. Instead of remembering to visit each day, Wondertime content comes directly to your computer on a daily basis or at whatever interval you choose.
Increasingly, Web sites that publish new content on a regular basis provide a list of news headline links to their latest content. In addition to displaying these headlines on their own web sites, many publishers make them available for syndication using RSS (a dialect of XML) or “Really Simple Syndication.” That way, these syndicated headlines can be included in other web sites and newsreaders, however, they won’t include the full text of articles. By clicking on the RSS feed headline, you will be taken to the original site to read the full article.
