RSS

You’ve heard of RSS? You’ve seen those small funny tags on websites? You’ve heard co-workers and acquaintances swear by it, but still have no idea what RSS is? Well don’t worry, according to a this survey you’re still in the majority, but this is changing rapidly. In the information world, RSS is not only revolutionalizing the way news, media and content creators share information, but it also is swiftly changing the way everyday users are consuming information.

RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication” and is a file format for delivering regularly updated information over the web. Just think about the websites and news information sources you visit everyday. It takes time to visit those sites and scour the ad-filled and image-heavy pages for just the text you want to read, doesn’t it?

Now imagine if you could visit all those information sources and web pages in just one place and all at the same time … without being bombarded with advertising… without having to search for new information on the page you’d already seen or read before… and without having to consume a lot of time visiting each site individually. Would that be valuable to you?

RSS AND MASHUPS

Find your information, news, professional and recreational goodies – and better still, create a mashup for yourself and others. See this blog posting that discusses the difference between RSS feed readers, Bloglines, and Google Reader.

This video is for the people who could save time using RSS, but don’t know where to start.

RSS in plain English

Here are some examples of popular RSS tools:

Bloglines http://www.bloglines.com/
Netvibes http://www.netvibes.com/
GoogleReader http://www.google.com/reader
Yahoo Pipes http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/ Interactive feed aggregator and manipulator
Pageflakes http://www.pageflakes.com/
Grazr http://grazr.com/
SuprGlu http://suprglu.com/

More about RSS

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