2006-06-14 02:44:17 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds are digests of recently added information to websites. By subscribing to feeds, you receive updates when new information is added to a web site. RSS feeds can be aggregated (using an aggregater or reader) to allow you to see recently added information to web sites. By aggregating a number of feeds from different sources you can scan news, blog entries, etc. without having to go visit each site every time you want to check for new information. If you are a news hound and prefer not to visit web sites directly every time you want an update, then RSS is for you. Many people enjoy the act of ”surfing”, and for those people RSS probably does not make sense. The RSS paradigm is much different from the web surfing, and there is something of a learning curve with the tools used to subscribe to and read feeds.
2006-06-14 04:31:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites, news-oriented community sites, and personal weblogs. But it's not just for news. Pretty much anything that can be broken down into discrete items can be syndicated via RSS: the "recent changes" page of a wiki, a changelog of CVS checkins, even the revision history of a book. Once information about each item is in RSS format, an RSS-aware program can check the feed for changes and react to the changes in an appropriate way.
RSS-aware programs called news aggregators are popular in the weblogging community. Many weblogs make content available in RSS. A news aggregator can help you keep up with all your favorite weblogs by checking their RSS feeds and displaying new items from each of them.
That's the explanation from xml.com
So basically an rss feed enables you to see the most recent changes to a particular site.
2006-06-14 02:50:00 · answer #2 · answered by bogdan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a type of web feed that news programs use a lot.
2006-06-14 02:47:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a live web feed.
Check out webopedia definition:
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RSS.html
2006-06-14 02:50:32 · answer #4 · answered by Schmancy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
live news that is scrolling across your screen/browser especially firefox uses that
2006-06-14 02:47:25 · answer #5 · answered by LetMEtell&AskYOU 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋