RSS popularly known as Really Simple Syndication is the best way of sharing information in the internet in recent time. The arrival of Web 2.0 and social bookmarking introduced a new way of sharing information through xml feeds called RSS Feeds. The readers can subscribe to an RSS Feed from any news site, blogs by clicking the RSS feed buttons or icons and have the latest news and information whenever the respective sites or blogs are getting updated.

How RSS Icons look like?

You can find similar RSS Subscription or add to my RSS Reader icons in this site. Refer to this page footer to see “Add to RSS Feed Reader” icon from popular sites.

Evolution of RSS:

• Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91)
• RDF Site Summary (RSS 1.0 and RSS 0.90)
• Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0)

Gone are the days where people go and search for news and information updates daily. Now all online news syndication networks, knowledge management networks and blogs started using RSS making users to read everything from web readers or by using softwares called RSS News readers.

Web Based RSS Readers:

Google Reader
Bloglines
MyYahoo
RSS2HTML
Rojo

RSS Readers for PC:

FeedDemon
FeedReader

What is a feed or web-feed?

A feed is nothing but the RSS document which contains the aggregated summary of a particular website.

Sample RSS Feed:

<rss>

     <channel />

          <image />

          <textinput />

          <item>

          <title>RSS Whitepaper!</title>

          <link>http://www.digitalprank.org/</link>

          <description></description>

    </item>

     </channel>

</rss>

Want to know more about RSS? Pls refer to the below given video by Common Crafts

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