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While surfing on Internet, you must have come across some of the websites that appeals to you a lot and you want to visit those pages again,so what you usually do is you just bookmark the link of those pages in Firefox or add the links to Favorites in Internet Explorer 6.0.
You might be interested in knowing whether there is something new in those pages that you have bookmarked. For example, there are websites where something new is cooked for you everyday like news sites, web blogs etc. So to find out if anything has changed on that page, it is up to you to go through your list of bookmarks and click on them to see if anything is new. Repeatedly checking each website to see if there is any new content can be very tedious.
To solve this problem e-mail notifications were used where you get mail from multiple websites of recent updates. But it was very difficult to organize and sometimes they are mistaken as spam.
Another organized and flexible solution is "RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed". A feed is similar to a bookmark in a web browser. If you subscribe to the feed of the my blog, for instance, you will always see the latest content from that site in your readers (that will be described in the following section). The main benefit of RSS is that it enables people to stay connected with their favorite websites without having to visit them. It allows you to view new headlines and updates without even navigating to the page itself. RSS feeds bring automatically updated information straight to your desktop. You can monitor news, blogs, job listings and classifieds etc. Many sites offer feeds, which you can identify by a small button that says either RSS or XML.
RSS content can be read using software called an "RSS Reader", "Feed Reader" or an "Aggregator", which can be web-based or desktop-based.
You must have noticed that most recent browsers like Firefox, IE 7.0 identify RSS feeds. You can see RSS icon on navigation bar of your browser (if you are using Firefox) or you can see it on the the page itself, as the screen shot below illustrates :
How To Subscribe To RSS:
1. Click on the RSS icon or on a "Subscribe" link. You will be redirected to a page as shown below:
You can choose a reader from a list of readers. A good place to start is with a couple of free and easy to use web based ones like Google Reader and Bloglines.
Lets choose Google Reader.
2.Click on add to Google Reader.
After this you will be asked for your email id if you have one, otherwise you can create your new account there itself.
After following above few steps you will be successfully subscribed. Now when you open Google Reader (or any other reader that you have used), just login and see the recent updates of all the websites on which you have subscribed.
Note: If you are an Orkut user, you don't need a reader to fetch the feeds. You can use this hack to do your job easily.
Hopefully this answers your question of RSS!
You might be interested in knowing whether there is something new in those pages that you have bookmarked. For example, there are websites where something new is cooked for you everyday like news sites, web blogs etc. So to find out if anything has changed on that page, it is up to you to go through your list of bookmarks and click on them to see if anything is new. Repeatedly checking each website to see if there is any new content can be very tedious.
To solve this problem e-mail notifications were used where you get mail from multiple websites of recent updates. But it was very difficult to organize and sometimes they are mistaken as spam.
Another organized and flexible solution is "RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed". A feed is similar to a bookmark in a web browser. If you subscribe to the feed of the my blog, for instance, you will always see the latest content from that site in your readers (that will be described in the following section). The main benefit of RSS is that it enables people to stay connected with their favorite websites without having to visit them. It allows you to view new headlines and updates without even navigating to the page itself. RSS feeds bring automatically updated information straight to your desktop. You can monitor news, blogs, job listings and classifieds etc. Many sites offer feeds, which you can identify by a small button that says either RSS or XML.
RSS content can be read using software called an "RSS Reader", "Feed Reader" or an "Aggregator", which can be web-based or desktop-based.
You must have noticed that most recent browsers like Firefox, IE 7.0 identify RSS feeds. You can see RSS icon on navigation bar of your browser (if you are using Firefox) or you can see it on the the page itself, as the screen shot below illustrates :
How To Subscribe To RSS:
1. Click on the RSS icon or on a "Subscribe" link. You will be redirected to a page as shown below:
You can choose a reader from a list of readers. A good place to start is with a couple of free and easy to use web based ones like Google Reader and Bloglines.Lets choose Google Reader.
2.Click on add to Google Reader.
After this you will be asked for your email id if you have one, otherwise you can create your new account there itself.
After following above few steps you will be successfully subscribed. Now when you open Google Reader (or any other reader that you have used), just login and see the recent updates of all the websites on which you have subscribed.
Note: If you are an Orkut user, you don't need a reader to fetch the feeds. You can use this hack to do your job easily.
Hopefully this answers your question of RSS!
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