What Are RSS Feeds?

RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication." It's a format that web sites and blogs can use to send updated headlines to you via services like My Yahoo!. My Yahoo! gathers the content you select from a variety of sources and displays it for you in one convenient location. Syndication means you don't have to visit each site individually to see what's new -- you simply scan headlines or brief article summaries and click to read the full text. That's the "really simple" part. And it's "really simple" for publishers to make their content accessible this way too.

RSS is an easy way for you to keep updated automatically on websites you like. Instead of you having to go to websites to see if they've written a new article or feature, you can use RSS (which stands for Really Simple Syndication) to get them to tell you every time they have something new.

Different News Readers work on different operating systems, so you will need to take this into account when you make your choice. The easiest way to have your RSS feeds sent to you is to open a my Yahoo or a my MSN account . Then all you have to do is add the content you want delivered to you.

There are a large number of different News Readers available.

NEWS READERS

Windows

Awasu -http://www.awasu.com/

FeedDemon - http://www.feeddemon.com/feeddemon/index.asp

FeedReader - http://www.feedreader.com/

Freeware application for Windows.

Newz Crawler -http://www.newzcrawler.com/

Mac OS X

Bloglines- http://www.bloglines.com/ A web-based personal news aggregator that can be used in place of a desktop client.

blogbot - http://www.blogbot.com/

NewsFire - http://www.newsfirerss.com/

Macintosh RSS reader. OS 10.3 required.

NetNewsWire- http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/

Web and Other News Readers

GOOGLE- http://www.blogger.com/start

My Yahoo- http://my.yahoo.com

News Feed - http://www.BennetteBurks.com/NewsFeed

A Blog compiles several news sources (RSS) into one easy-to-read web site. There's even a search engine just for RSS feeds, called Feedster.com, that currently returns over 4,645,164 feeds indexed and fully searchable.

Sean Felker is the publisher of the very successful and popular Work at Home and Making Money on the Internet blog: http://making-money-online.blogspot.com/

In The News:


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Corsavoo.com, France - 19 hours ago
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Appscout, NY - Aug 28, 2008
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Social Computing Magazine, NY - Sep 4, 2008
Perform a content audit that covers not only existing content that should be surfaced, but external content (RSS feeds,blogs,industry sites) that needs to ...

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indiainteracts.com, India - Sep 6, 2008
... September 6th, 2008 at 4:02 pm and is filed under Uncategorized, Blogging. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. ...

Fast Talk Response -
Fast Company - Aug 20, 2008
... in the last year to 18 mos. is because it has all the benefits of blogging (RSS,commenting,sharing,tagging,bookmarking) but none of the hassles. ...

Travel 2.0 marketing services for hotels launched
m-Travel.com - Sep 5, 2008
It combines blogging, RSS feed syndication, Twittering and email harvesting with hotel profiles on Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, Twitter, Photobucket, Squidoo, ...

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Corsavoo.com, France - Sep 6, 2008
When you post blogs or files in your account, everyone from your network of friends will be informed of the update through RSS feeds. ...

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PR CannaZine (press release), UK - Sep 2, 2008
Now, subscribe to RSS feeds on those topics, or printed magazines, newsletters - anything that has info on those subjects. ...
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