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What the heck is RSS again?

Posted by Patrick on April 3rd, 2006

The guys at Emerson Process Experts have created a must read RSS Starter Kit. RSS is a life changing technology people. Get on the bandwagon.

What is RSS?

RSS, short for Really Simple Syndication, lets you receive instant information updates. With RSS webfeeds you are in control — you decide what you want to read and when you want to read it. A simple news reader makes this possible.

Once you subscribe to a site’s RSS webfeed or even a search engine feed, your news reader goes out and grabs the updated information saving you the time it takes to visit each site. The latest information as soon as it is published comes to your news reader.

Major news sites, blogs, and a growing number of corporate websites publish their content as RSS webfeeds. Millions of sites such as BBC World News, The New York Times, and EasyDeltaV.com use RSS to deliver headlines and summaries.

Some browsers like Firefox automatically check for webfeeds when you visit a website, and display this icon when it finds one. This auto discovery will be in the next Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office releases.

Why use RSS?

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2 Responses to “What the heck is RSS again?”

  1. Shannon Whitley Said:
    on April 4th, 2006 at 1:53 pm

    If you’d like to make the transition from email to RSS, you can start out by subscribing to RSS feeds via email. Check out Feedlinx at http://www.feedlinx.com. You can also use the Feed Finder tool on this site to find feeds on your favorite blogs.

  2. Jim Cahill Said:
    on April 7th, 2006 at 4:01 pm

    Thanks for the shout out to our site. I appreciate anyone’s feedback who tries the Starter Kit (http://EasyDeltaV.com/RSSKit) at http://www.emersonprocessxperts.com/archives/2006/03/moving_to_more.html#comments.

    Take it easy and thanks again! Jim