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| Mar 1 2008, 10:51 AM EST (current) | davefleet | 120 words added, 5 words deleted |
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What Is RSS?
In a nutshell: Usually when you want to find stuff on the Internet, you have navigate to other websites to find it. RSS brings the web to you.Here's a great analogy from Ed Lee:
Your Web content is like water in a lake. Lots of people want it and you want them to have it. They want to drink it, swim in it and play water polo in it.
But, to get it, they need to visit the lake, fill their buckets and then go back to their homes to use it.
RSS enables your audience to create a stream from your lake (where the content is) to their home (where they need the content).
RSS is a format for sharing content online. RSSIt started out as a way to distribute news-related headlines and descriptions.
RSS allows you to subscribe to an information feed that gets delivered directly to your RSS reader or Web browser. So instead of visiting several different Webweb pages each day or performing the same Webweb searches over and over, you can set up RSS feeds to do it for you.
RSS is an acronym for Really Simple Syndication and Rich Site Summary.
How Does RSS Work?
Subscribing to an RSS feed is really easy. There are three simple steps: - Select a reader.
- Find a feed.
- Add it to your reader.
Here's a great video that explains RSS feeds in plain language.
