WHAT IS RSS?
Would you like to stay up to date on all my new designs and additions to my shopping cart? You can, by subscribing to my RSS product feed. With RSS you can view every new product and incorporate it into your preferred newsreaders and web logs. Using RSS Visitors who want to view my products on their site or PC, via RSS feeds, will need their own RSS news reader. (There are many different news readers available online – some for free. Outlook 2007 comes with one already built in!) All news readers will require an RSS feed link, where it can regularly collect updated events. After implementing it, the current news from this site, will be displayed automatically by your reader on your site. Just click on the orange button to get started.
If you frequent Weblogs, you’ve seen the little XML icons inviting you to “syndicate this site”, but what does that really mean? A long time ago, newspaper managers realized that if they could use articles and stories from other newspapers in their paper, they could garner more readers because they could cover a wider area than they could with just their own reporters. This is an example of how syndication can work in print. Online, there are potentially millions of authors writing about millions of topics each day. It can be very difficult to keep track of without some type of automated system. And that’s where RSS comes in. Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is an easy way for Web sites to share headlines and stories from other sites. Web surfers can use sophisticated news readers to surf these headlines using RSS aggregators. A Brief History of RSS RSS was first invented by Netscape, when they were trying to get into the portal business. They wanted an XML format (RSS .90) that would b
From: http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=767506 “RSS is an acronym for Rich Site Summary, an XML format for distributing news headlines on the Web, also known as syndication.” From: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html “RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites like Wired, news-oriented community sites like Slashdot, and personal weblogs. But it’s not just for news. Pretty much anything that can be broken down into discrete items can be syndicated via RSS: the “recent changes” page of a wiki, a changelog of CVS checkins, even the revision history of a book. Once information about each item is in RSS format, an RSS-aware program can check the feed for changes and react to the changes in an appropriate way. RSS-aware programs called news aggregators are popular in the weblogging community. Many weblogs make content available in RSS. A news aggregator can help you keep up with all your favorite weblogs by che
