Do you use RSS?

If you use RSS you will understand that sometimes it can be very hard to use at some times. We i came accross this new service that allows you to add the RSS feed to your account and it simply e-mails you the updates. Its been featured on Tech Crunch UK, In WEBUSER Magazine, Geek.com and many other places.





Let me know what you think





www.feedmailer.net

Do you use RSS?
RSS is a family of web feed formats specified in XML (a generic specification for data formats) and used for Web syndication. RSS delivers its information as an XML file called an "RSS feed", "webfeed", "RSS stream", or "RSS channel". These RSS feeds provide a way for users to passively receive newly released content (such as text, web pages, sound files, or other media); this might be the full content itself or just a link to it, possibly with a summary or other metadata (data describing the content).





In the typical use scenario, a content provider publishes a feed link on their site which end-users can add to an aggregator program running on their machine; periodically (typically every 5-10 minutes, though most aggregators make this user configurable), the aggregator asks all the servers in its feed list if they have new content; if so, the aggregator either makes a note of the new content or downloads it.





Compared to websites, feeds have a few advantages for the user experience:





* Users can be notified of new content without having to actively check for it.


* The information presented to users in an aggregator is typically much simpler than most websites. This spares users the mental effort of navigating complex web pages, which can be a demanding, attention-focusing task when trying to accomplish other work.


* Media files can be automatically downloaded without user intervention.





RSS feeds are operated by many news web sites, weblogs, schools, and podcasters.





The initialization "RSS" is variously used to refer to the following standards:





* Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0)


* Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0)


* RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9 and 1.0)