I've been wondering about that. What is it and what does it stand for in my Macintosh? How does it work? (Not sure if it's under right category for computers.)
2006-09-02 11:27:27 · 5 answers · asked by Kristen H 6 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
RSS is a family of web feed formats, specified in XML and used for Web syndication. RSS is used by (among other things) news websites, weblogs and podcasting. The abbreviation is variously used to refer to the following standards:
* Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0)
* Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0)
* RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9 and 1.0)
Web feeds provide web content or summaries of web content together with links to the full versions of the content, and other metadata. RSS, in particular, delivers this information as an XML file called an RSS feed, webfeed, RSS stream, or RSS channel. In addition to facilitating syndication, web feeds allow a website's frequent readers to track updates on the site using an aggregator.
Usage
Web feeds are widely used by the weblog community to share the latest entries' headlines or their full text, and even attach multimedia files. (See podcasting, vodcasting, broadcasting, screencasting, Vloging, and MP3 blogs.) Since mid-2000, use of RSS has spread to many of the major news organizations, including Reuters, CNN, PR Newswire, Business Wire, and the BBC. These providers allow other websites to incorporate their "syndicated" headline or headline-and-short-summary feeds under various usage agreements. RSS is now used for many purposes, including marketing, bug-reports, or any other activity involving periodic updates or publications. Many corporations are turning to RSS for delivery of their news, replacing email and fax distribution.
As the mainstream media attempts to realize the full potential of RSS, the news media is utilizing RSS by bypassing traditional news sources. Consumers and journalists are now able to have news constantly fed to them instead of searching for it.
2006-09-06 14:18:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
RSS stands for fairly basic Syndication. RSS is a widely used format for syndicating content cloth on the internet. The content cloth might properly be something! clientele can choose which feeds they want to join, if at any factor they're unhapy with the content cloth contained interior the RSS feed they only unsubscribe and now no longer obtain feed updates. RSS feeds are frequently signalled by ability of a small orange icon or while you're utilising Firefox and the internet internet site has an RSS feed obtainable an icon will look interior the URL field. you could click the icon to be certain the contents of the RSS feed.
2016-11-06 07:29:26 · answer #2 · answered by overbay 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, Rich Site Summary or RDF Site Summary depending on who you ask.
RSS readers pull information from a website and are used to give you updates of what's going on, especially on things such as new news, site updates, blog entries, etc.
RSS is a standardized form of XML (eXtensible Markup Language) that web programmers use to make sure that any RSS feed readers (whether user created or otherwise) can actually read the information properly.
2006-09-02 11:38:57 · answer #3 · answered by addtheninth 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a lightweight XML format designed for sharing headlines and other Web content.
2006-09-02 11:35:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Really Simple Syndication
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_%28file_format%29
2006-09-02 11:35:02 · answer #5 · answered by James 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋