What is RSS feeds ?

The Webmaster is not foreign anymore with RSS Feeds . Yes, RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish updated Frequently works-such as blog entries, news headlines, audio and video in a standardized format. An RSS document (which is called a "feed", "web feeds", or "channels") includes full or summarized text, plus metadata such as authorship and publishing dates. Web feeds benefit publishers by letting them Syndicate content automatically. They benefit coming who want to subscribe to timely updates from favored websites or to aggregate feeds from many sites into one place.

RSS formats are specified using XML, a generic specification for the creation of data formats. Although RSS formats have evolved since March 1999,[4] the RSS icon ( ) first gained widespread use between 2005 and 2006.

The initials "RSS" are used to refer to the following formats:

* Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91)
* RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9 and 1.0)
* Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0)

Confusion between Web feed and RSS

The term "RSS" is still sometimes used to refer to web feeds in general, including web feeds with a format different than RSS. For example, the Blogspace description of using web feeds in an aggregator is headlined "RSS info" and "RSS readers" even though its first sentence makes clear the inclusion of the Atom format: "RSS and Atom files provide news updates from a website in a simple form for your computer. "