So I hope you want to know what is this funny acronym called RSS!

What is RSS?

RSS (Rich Site Summary) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it.
 
This is also called webfeeds. Most webfeeds maintain a running list of the latest content items posted to a site. Each item in the feed includes a headline and often a summary that corresponds to a new piece of content on the Web site. That content usually is text (like an article or weblog entry), but it could also be a discussion thread, cartoon strip, audio file, spreadsheet, or any other kind of online content.

Each item listed in the feed also includes a link back to the original (full) item on the Web site – so if a particular headline or summary catches your interest, you simply click to access the full content. Also in most cases, each time fresh content is added to the site a corresponding new item is automatically added to the webfeed at the same time.

Want to Sign up for RSS Feeds!

Go and check out this simple website but powerful one at Syndic8.

More on RSS

As per the Wikipedia, RSS is most commonly expanded as Really Simple Syndication. RSS formats are specified using XML, a generic specification for the creation of data formats. Although RSS formats have evolved from as early as March 1999, it was between 2005 and 2006 when RSS gained widespread use, and the ("16px Feed icon.svg What is RSS?") icon was decided upon by several major Web browsers.

 

 

 

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