What is (Rich Site Summary) RSS?

"RSS is about getting live web feeds directly to your computer. RSS takes the latest headlines from different web sites, and pushes those headlines down to your computer for quick scanning. 

The acronym RSS stands for many versions of the same thing

 

Really Simple Syndication

Rich Site Summary RSS0.91

RDF Site SummaryRSS0.9 and1.0

Real-time Simple Syndication RSS2.0

What is RSS? RSS (Rich Site Summary) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it. Why RSS? Benefits and Reasons for using RSS RSS solves a problem for people who regularly use the web. It allows you to easily stay informedby retrieving the latest content from the sites you are interested in. You save time by not needing to visit each site individually. You ensure your privacy, by not needing to join each site's email newsletter. The number of sites offering RSS feeds is growing rapidly and includes big names likeYahoo News.

RSS feeds enable publishers to syndicate data automatically

RSS (Rich Site Summary); originally RDF Site Summary; often dubbed Really Simple Syndication, uses a family of standard web feed formats to publish frequently updated information: blog entries, news headlines, audio, video. An RSS document (called "feed", "web feed", or "channel") includes full or summarized text, and metadata, like publishing date and author's name.

 

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What RSS Means?

RSS is about getting live web feeds directly to your computer.

RSS(Rich Site Summary) takes the latest headlines from different websites,pushes those headlines to your computer.

RSS files can be automatically updated.RSS allows personalized views for different sites.It is written in XML.

You simply log in to your RSS reader page, or start your RSS software, and you can scan all your web feeds instantly.You can visit the web feed site directly, you can copy-paste the special code from an email, or you can load copies from your friend's RSS reader screen.

 

 

RSS is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs, and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it.

 It is a family of standard web feed formats to publish frequently updated information.it includes full or summarised text and metadata

RSS (Rich Site Summary); originally RDF Site Summary; often dubbed Really Simple Syndication, uses a family of standard web feed formats to publish frequently updated information: blog entries, news headlines, audio, video. An RSS document (called "feed", "web feed",or "channel") includes full or summarized text, and metadata, like publishing date and author's name.

RSS feeds enable publishers to syndicate data automatically. A standard XML file format ensures compatibility with many different machines/programs. RSS feeds also benefit users who want to receive timely updates from favourite websites or to aggregate data from many sites.

Subscribing to a website RSS removes the need for the user to manually check the web site for new content. Instead, their browser constantly monitors the site and informs the user of any updates. The browser can also be commanded to automatically download the new data for the use

for more infromation visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS

RSS files are essentially XML formatted plain text. The RSS file itself is relatively easy to read both by automated processes and by humans alike.

What do you mean (Rich Site Summary)?

- Do you mean RSS and Latest Feeds from websites or i got it wrong!

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RSS (Rich Site Summary) is updated feeds