What is RSS feed?

[siva s]

Hi,
What is RSS feed?

[mukeshkr]

RSS (Rich Site Summary; originally RDF Site Summary; often called Really Simple Syndication) uses a family of standard web feed formats to publish frequently updated information: blog entries, news headlines, audio, video.

[RH-Calvin]

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. Also called web feeds, RSS is a content delivery vehicle. It is the format used when you want to syndicate news and other web content. When it distributes the content it is called a feed.

[fayeseom]

RSS Feeds are an easy way to stay up to date with your favorite websites, such as blogs or online magazines. If a site offers an RSS feed, you get notified whenever a post goes up, and then you can read a summary or the whole post.

[zinavo5]

*RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication.
*RSS is a standard format for syndicating content on the Internet. The content can be anything!
*Users can choose which feeds they wish to subscribe to, if at any point they are unhapy with the content contained in the RSS feed they simply unsubscribe and no longer receive feed updates

[enkon]

RSS (Rich Site Summary; originally RDF Site Summary; often called Really Simple Syndication).
RSS is a technology that is being used by millions of web users around the world to keep track of their favorite websites.

In the ‘old days’ of the web to keep track of updates on a website you had to ‘bookmark’ websites in your browser and manually return to them on a regular basis to see what had been added.

[siva s]

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[pritijaiswal]

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[joshuambruck]

RSS means Rich Site Summary. It 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.