What is RSS Feed?

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What is RSS Feed?
It stands for Really Simple Syndication. It's basically for bookmarking sites that update. Such as blogs, podcasts, and news.
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 software programs called "feed readers" or "feed aggregators". The user subscribes to a feed by entering a link to the feed into the reader program. 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.





The initials "RSS" are 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)


RSS formats are specified in XML (a generic specification for data formats). RSS delivers its information as an XML file called an "RSS feed," "webfeed," "RSS stream," or "RSS channel".





RssReader - free RSS reader is able to display any RSS and Atom news feed (XML)
Reply:Youtube has videos explaining RSS.





You can display and provide links for your Y!A questions on your Y!360 and Myspace pages with a RSS feed.


http://myspace.com/22449233


http://rssonmyspace.com





Find your list of questions.


To the right of your first question you will see RSS.


Click on it with the right button then left click to copy shortcut.


In your Y!360 click "My Page."


http://360.yahoo.com/


Click "Edit Feeds."


Right click on one of the three boxes to paste the shortcut.


Then save.





You can also display information from:


Yahoo! My Web


Yahoo! News (for specific subjects like your state, country, or corporation)


MSN News


BBC News


Myspace Blogs


Craigslist, CNET, Youtube, Netflix, Flickr, Gizmodo, Forbes.





Try searching for a "RSS Directory" in the search engine.
Reply: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 checking their RSS feeds and displaying new items from each of them.


A brief history





But coders beware. The name "RSS" is an umbrella term for a format that spans several different versions of at least two different (but parallel) formats. The original RSS, version 0.90, was designed by Netscape as a format for building portals of headlines to mainstream news sites. It was deemed overly complex for its goals; a simpler version, 0.91, was proposed and subsequently dropped when Netscape lost interest in the portal-making business. But 0.91 was picked up by another vendor, UserLand Software, which intended to use it as the basis of its weblogging products and other web-based writing software.





In the meantime, a third, non-commercial group split off and designed a new format based on what they perceived as the original guiding principles of RSS 0.90 (before it got simplified into 0.91). This format, which is based on RDF, is called RSS 1.0. But UserLand was not involved in designing this new format, and, as an advocate of simplifying 0.90, it was not happy when RSS 1.0 was announced. Instead of accepting RSS 1.0, UserLand continued to evolve the 0.9x branch, through versions 0.92, 0.93, 0.94, and finally 2.0.





What a mess.


So which one do I use?





That's 7 -- count 'em, 7! -- different formats, all called "RSS". As a coder of RSS-aware programs, you'll need to be liberal enough to handle all the variations. But as a content producer who wants to make your content available via syndication, which format should you choose?





More Info :


http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive...


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_f...