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RSS Syndication

RSS Syndication or RSS Newsfeeds (RSS Feeds for short) refer to the same. There are two parts in the process, the publisher and the consumer. Publisher produces a small text file in a special format that displays the title and address of an article or resource published on the World Wide Web. The consumer uses a program, usually called an aggregator to read and display the contents of this simple text file with links to the Web page. Or the consumer can visit a Web site that contains a news reader program, and view the results as a Web page. Members of Yahoo.com, for example, can set their personal My Yahoo pages to show the contents of any RSS feeds you select.It is all there is to it. Simple. Therefore, some say RSS stands for ' Really Simple Syndication. " Some confusion has arisen because an RSS feed can be used in several ways. Call it a newsfeed is the first error, since RSS is used for much more than news. The most common situation is for the RSS elements must have a short title, create a link to the original page referred to, and a brief description of the contents of this Web page. But other people also the complete contents of their resource directly in the RSS feed. So feed can contain a graphical image of an animated film, an entire post to a weblog (or blog), or the complete contents of a newsletter, rather than just a link back to these resources on a Web site. Other sites omit the description, and only list titles linked back to their home page. And some versions of RSS, you can omit the title, as long as you have a description.Talk about the ' versions ' of RSS, there is a source of even more confusion. RSS began with version 0.93, and was called the ' RDF Site Summary "--RDF refers to" Resource Description Framework, "method for marking different parts of the file. This early version was updated and modified through various editions, including 0.91, 0.92, 0.93, 0.94, and they began to call RSS ' Really Simple Syndication. " Then someone came along with a different format, a little more complicated, and called it RSS version 1.0. Supporters of version 0.94 like not implied that 1.0 or otherwise was an advance on 0.94 when in reality it was a completely different format, so they came up with the version 2.0 which was an improved version of 0.94, but still, in contrast to 1.0. Rather than take sides in this quarrel, another came up with their own version and called the Atom, to distance themselves from RSS-battle. Another developed blogrolls using OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language). Most of these formats are loosely or strictly based on XML, overall mark-up scheme. None of this confusion method and purpose has helped spread this really useful tool. Most RSS aggregators can read any of these formats, so the situation is not as hopeless as it may seem, but many people still throw it all out, when they cannot find out exactly how it is supposed to work. At http://www.SharedRSS.com/we are using version 1.0, because it is approved by the W3C as being supportive ' Semantic Web '. Casual user, however, is really not important version. SharedRSS is a simple Web site that performs a very strong feature ... it brings the benefits of RSS syndication to all those who publish home pages, but adding new material all too rarely justify having their own RSS feed. RSS Syndication was designed to help people find information about new content on the Internet long before the search engines come to find it makes it easy for people to find out about new content that interests themwithout having to return to the search engines and Wade through all the material you have seen before. For sites with content changes often, it has worked well for them to create their own RSS feed and update it as new content is added to their website. But what about all the websites that add only an occasional new article or story to their site, or publish a newsletter once per month? Or those who just can't take time to figure the details formatting an RSS feed? An RSS feed, only updated once every few months is of negligible value; very few people want to add it to their search list in their aggregator. Shared RSS solves this problem by mixing together articles from various sites covers the same topic, and allow them to announce the availability of their new material in the feed is shared with other publish on the same subject. This makes the feeds more useful for consumers so that they are more inclined to add the link to their aggregator. It is of benefit to the Publisher of make more people aware of their material, as soon as it is put online. ________________________________________________
Andrew j. Morris is the owner and creator of SharedRSS--a site that allows for all owners of Web sites to publish their newly added material for free. http://www.sharedrss.com/________________________________________________

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