What is RSS And How Do I Use It?

Hi,





Im fairly up to date on most web based stuff but havent a clue what RSS feeds are and how i might use them?....Can you help?

What is RSS And How Do I Use It?
RSS is an acronym, which stands for Really Simple Syndication and sometimes it is also referred to as Rich Site Summary. It is essentially a tool you can use to have news related headlines and announcements, delivered directly to you, rather than having to go look for it. RSS makes use of a certain code that constantly scans a website for updated content and then broadcasts those updates to all subscribers through a feed. These RSS feeds will contain the Date, Title, a Brief Description of the content and a Link to click on to read more of the article.





More and more sites are now offering RSS feeds, which can be identified by a small orange button that says either or - However, if you click one of these links, you will most likely get a page full of code in your browser.
Reply:RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated digital content, such as blogs, news feeds or podcasts.





Users of RSS content use programs called feed 'readers' or 'aggregators': the user 'subscribes' to a feed by supplying to their reader a link to the feed; the reader can then check the user's subscribed feeds to see if any of those feeds have new content since the last time it checked, and if so, retrieve that content and present it to the user.





Programs known as feed readers or aggregators can check a list of feeds on behalf of a user and display any updated articles that they find. It is common to find web feeds on major websites and many smaller ones. Some websites let people choose between RSS or Atom formatted web feeds; others offer only RSS or only Atom.
Reply:SIMPLEY IT SHOWS INFROMATION WHICH IS THE MOST CURRENT ON INTERNET.