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What is RSS? RSS stands for several things, most notably Really Simple Syndication. This is the most common, widely accepted definition of the acronym.Really simple syndication or RSS allows you to view multiple websites quickly without actually spending time going to those sites. In the past if you had five sites you followed regularly and went to them three times a day, you would have to go to each one of those sites individually. With an RSS feed you can view the contents of each one of those sites in one location.
RSS feeds can be read in many different manners. You can have a program installed on your PC, Mac or -Nix box to read the files locally or read them online with one of the multiple free or low cost readers. Examples of free readers are - Google Reader, etc
To get the RSS feed into your reader, you must first suscribe to the feed. You will see a RSS logo on most sites that offer a feed. Click on this and then add it to your choice of reader. If you’re using Google reader you can subscribe to your site of choice and Google reader will automatically update anything from those five sites throughout the day. When you are ready to look at the information from those sites you can open up your RSS reader and see your selected feeds in one location. The information sent from those sites typically includes the title, a brief synopsis of the article, and a link to that article. If you look at the information in the RSS feed and decide you want to read that article you can click the link in the and go to thae site and read the full article.
Basically RSS allows you to aggregate content from multiple sites in one location. RSS is extremely popular with many blogs. The blogs which I visit typically have an RSS feed so that I can subscribe to their information or content. Then I look at their content in one location, my reader. Basically RSS saves you a lot of time.
RSS is a concept began with Netscape. They wanted an easy format that they could add to any site and aggregate news for multiple other sites creating a portal for content. There are several different formats of RSS but as far as the average user is concerned this shouldn’t matter
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