Saturday, August 28, 2010

What is meant by RSS Feed?

What is RSS? The term RSS is refers to "Really Simple Syndication", in general, sometimes used to refer to web feeds, an RSS document is called a "web feed or channel" includes full or summarized text, plus metadata such as publishing dates and authorship. This is where the reader can easily subscribe to get their favorite websites with interesting topics and updated contents on it and aggregate feeds from many sites into one place.

                  An RSS feed consists of software called RSS reader, feed reader, or aggregator which can be web-based or desktop-based. The users can subscribe to a feed by having feed's URL from a certain website into the reader or by clicking an RSS icon in a browser that initiates the subscription process. The RSS reader simply checks the user's subscribed feeds regularly for new work or post and read the feeds.

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