RSS
What is an RSS reader?
RSS stands for Rich Site Summary or RDF Site summary and is used for the purpose of publishing frequently updated content such as blogs or news updates. Simply, this is a tool used by a publisher to get his or her new content out to their followers automatically like a radio cast. An RSS reader is the software the follower would need in order to receive this updated content.On the internet there are many millions of blogs and news pages. That is of course overwhelming. To keep track with the steadily out coming news it is a lot of work. It is also very time consuming to visit every day your own favourite pages and to search for the newest announcements. Instead of visiting all these sites every day, you have the possibility with RSS to receive all important news on one page. Therefore you have an overview on one page and you won’t waste your time with pages which still didn’t update their reports anyway. It is faster, clearer and much more modern to use a RSS reader. Therefore you can receive all the information on one page. Now one should decide for a RSS reader RSS page.You can choose from a huge selection, among Google Reader, Omea Reader,Newz Crawler, Bloglines, Newsgator, Yahoo Reader and lots more. Let’s take as an example Google Reader,for it you will need a Google account. Register yourself or immediately log in quite simply under www.Google.com/reader/view. If you don’t have a Google account, you have to briefly register yourself. After that you can select which pages you want to subscribe. In our example we take the page www.BBC.com/news.Immediately on the homepage, completely on top on the right side we see the orange RSS symbol. At this point you should click on it and then press subscribe now. Select this RSS feed and subscribe with Google. Now immediately you will be redirected to your Google reader page and once more you should select the BBC news with the confirm button. That’s how easy it was to select the desired page. Now at any time you can find the news of BBC under all items. On some pages you will find a code, instead of the orange RSS symbol. In this case if you want to subscribe to such a site, you should copy the URL and insert the Feed-URL under subscribing
and push add on the Google page. Then under the segment of subscription you have a nice overview of all your selected pages. Maybe some other pages still have other symbols to subscribe but the principle is always same. It is actually quite simple if you have tried it once, and it really saves you a lot of time. You will love it and won’t want to miss it anymore, because thereby you really have a great overview of your desired articles. Still a small tip if you are not sure to which pages you should subscribe.
Under: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/_/rss-directory.htm you can find great pages to select from and all free of charge. Or you can look yourself under RSS lists, for example under Google.
Have fun trying it.
RSS Feed On Your Own Page
RSS (simplified)stands for Really Simple Syndication. If you are operating your own web page or a blog, you should offer RSS feed. It is a script, with which regular readers can get the newest updates free of charge, and very fast. When the readers subscribe to your RSS feed, they will always receive the newest messages uncomplicated to their RSS reader. Furthermore they can also subscribe your Podcasts. This means if new videos or audio files are published over your web page they can be also delivered via RSS. That means not only written articles can be sent. To produce RSS feed now there are four possibilities. The first one is a XML script. XML stands for extensible mark up language. Extensible mark up language defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both readable by man and machine. You should really only use it if you know it well and a lot about it but it is a possibility to build in your RSS feed in your web page. The next is the easier and recommended method, a free programme called a RSS editor. A RSS Editor is a certain software application that helps manipulate RSS feeds offline. Examples of some familiar software names are RSS Builder,Feed Cap or XML mind XML editor 4.6 personal edition and many more. Now let’s get to the program RSS Builder. This is a freeware that is quite easy to download under sourceforge.net/projects/rss-builder .Then just install the programme. Now you can get started immediately to supply your own page with feeds. If you wrote a new article then you can open the RSS Builder. On the left side under feed properties you should fill out the whole column. It contains the title, website URL, copyright, language, editor, webmaster and the description. On the right side on top, under topic title you can insert the feed and arrange the icons. Under that you can fill out the title, link, category, comments, author, the publishing date and the description. If you want to make it into an ITunes Podcast, you must press the enclosure tab. and add the URL. If you are ready, you can save it completely on top under the disk symbol. Then you can upload it right away to your FTP Server. The FTP server is a file transference procedure also called file transfer protocol. Then you are all set. The third possibility is a web blog tool by which RSS-Feed is generated, as for example Wordpress. It is one of the best known and recommended web blog tools and is used by a lot of people. It’s also very easy to use and one can use such a program for the announcement of the news. Finally, FeedBurner, which is a webfeed management provider, is a very good tool for bloggers to manage their RSS feeds. It is also very common in use and widespread around the world.
