What is RSS?

i have heard a lot about RSS feeds. i want to know in detail about it.

What is RSS?
RSS stands for





Really Simple Syndication





They allow you to subscribe to content on websites for free, and basically whenever you launch your RSS reader it checks for changes and automatically downloads the latest updates. Most of which is text based.





Podcasts can also be subscribed to this way.





Opera has a built in reader for RSS, when you see a small orange icon that says RSS, you can click on it and Opera's RSS reader will show you the RSS news feed content.





RSS reader


http://www.opera.com/switch/
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".


read following articles.
Reply:Its Really Simple Syndication.





Its a feed designed to be read with a " RSS READER " Yahoo! makes this easy and My Yahoo has one built right in for you!





Here is a example of a RSS FEED


http://e.my.yahoo.com/config/cstore?.opt...





Its done in XML a simple html language designed to display as well as aggregate website links and descriptions.





Hope this helps.





you will needl a rss reader to display that link properly I suggest using my yahoo
Reply:Really Simple Syndication. An easy way to get news headlines. I use MY YAHOO to receive mine and use RSS for my blog. See link below for more information.
Reply:You can get updates or notifications of changes of something via RSS onto your MyYahoo! site. I don't know too much about it either.
Reply:http://search1.cc.dcn.yahoo.com/cct_sear...
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.