Whats an RSS feed on a web site?

Answer 1

ok, so lets say you have a favorite website and every day you surf to it to see, for example, their latest news. If their news is offered in RSS you can get a link to it and display it on your website.

Think of an RSS feed as the delivery of the newspaper to your website. Once the feed is setup, when they update the information it sends you the information and updates your website automatically.

If you look at the feed it will look alot like XML..

Answer 2

HI, I just looked this up for you, and I hope you'd appreciate it.


RSS
Really Simple Syndication -or- Rich Site Summary

Put simply, an "RSS feed" is a format for distributing and gathering content from sources across the Web, including newspapers, magazines, and blogs. Web publishers use RSS to create and distribute news feeds that include links, headlines, and summaries. In other words, it is a format (in XML) for syndicating Web content so as to allow Web site owners and independent publishers the ability to easily share information. The idea is that when the published RSS feed changes, the content fed to your Web site will automatically change too.

Even though it may sound complicated at first, it is a rather simple technology that allows Web publishers to have other people's content aggregated and displayed on their own Web pages, without having to know XML. An RSS aggregator is a program that reads RSS documents and displays new items. It is another way to increase traffic to your Web site by offering your users content that is constantly changing (so they will keep coming back). Syndicated content includes such data as news feeds, events listings, news stories, headlines, project updates, excerpts from discussion forums and even corporate information. At the same time, it is also a way for authors and publishers to syndicate their content for others to view via a software program called an RSS Reader.

Originated by UserLand in 1997, and subsequently used by Netscape, you've most likely seen RSS feeds on one of many Web sites including: the BBC, CNET, CNN, Disney, Forbes, Motley Fool, Wired, Red Herring, Salon, Slashdot, ZDNet, and more. Think of it as a box you put on your Web page that is able to update itself: Whenever the source of the information changes, your Web page changes too, without you having to do a single thing to change it. Think of it also as a program you download (an RSS Reader) in which you subsequently sign-up for RSS feeds of interest to you; they will automatically get sent to your Reader each time they are updated.

Answer 3

Its an direct link, you can add the rss feed to places, such as my yahoo etc.

Hope this helps.

Good Luck