RSS Feed Benefits
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RSS feeds is the way of delivering web contents or blogs on regular basis to subscribers. RSS is short for rich site summary. It is used by many sites, online publishers and weblogs in delivering their content to their subscribers. RSS feeds is the most convenient way for regular web users to keep track sites they are interested in. This is because every time there is a new content, the subscriber is automatically fed with the content. Therefore, you will be notified of new announcement, news or anything about the site by simply subscribing using the RSS feed. In other words, without having to constantly check your favorite sites for latest news or information, you will be kept updated. At the same time you do not have to worry about your privacy since you will not be required to join the email newsletter of the sites.
This is the newest way of delivering information to the regular web user and a lot of sites offer it. You can use FeedReader, Amphetadesk and News Aggregator, if you are thinking of what software you need to read the feeds. Web based feed readers are Bloglines, Google Reader and others. After choosing your feed reader, just find your favorite sites and add them to your feeds list. Just look for the small icons with XML, RDF or RSS if you want to know if the site is offering feeds.
RSS feeds also has different versions like other web based technology. These versions are basically divided into two categories. The first category is the RDF or RSSI while the second category is the RSS 2. The RSS 1 includes the RSS 0.90, which was the original RSS of Netscape. Then there is the open format RSS 1.0. And lastly there is the RSS 1.1, which is an open format like the previous version but it was not endorsed by the RSS Dev Working Group.
As for the RSS 2, it has the RSS 0.91 or the simple version of the original RSS of Netscape. Then there are the versions compatible with 0.91 Winer version and with each other, the RSS 0.92 to 0.94. Then lastly there is the Rss 2.0.1, which is an international version. You will not have any problem reading your feeds since most sites support both the two types of versions. If you are among the web users who have different and many interests you should try using RSS feeds. You will be surprised at how the feeds can save you time by instead of visiting regularly your favorite sites.
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