What is RSS?

RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91) or RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9 and 1.0) or Real-time Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0)”. It’s a web format used, to publish current information in real time to other websites. It’s about getting live web feeds directly to your computer. RSS takes the latest headlines from different web sites, and pushes those headlines down to your computer for quick scanning. It’s a way to easily distribute a list of headlines, update notices, and content to a wide number of audiences. You are able to set up an RSS feed on your site which will include automatic feeds from other websites or any specific page, the topic, news, article that interest you.

Many blogs, websites, forums, and community whose content (Article, News,Topic ) changes on an unpredictable schedule. RSS is repeatedly checking each webpage to see if there are any new content and notifications of changes to multiple web pages are handled easily, and the results are presented to you well organized.

How does RSS work?

RSS works by having the website author maintain a list of subscribers on their webpage in a define manner, basically simple text files that, once submitted to feed directories, will allow subscribers list to see content within a very short time after it's updated . This list of subscribers is called an "RSS Feed". Special computer programs called "RSS aggregators" have been developed that automatically access the RSS feeds of websites you care about on your behalf and organize the results for you.

What is an RSS aggregator ?

An RSS aggregator as just a web browser for RSS content. An RSS aggregator web service which gives you a custom web page that includes the newest information from your hand-picked RSS feeds . An RSS aggregators automatically check a series of RSS feeds for new items on an ongoing basis, making it is possible to keep track of changes to multiple websites. They detect the additions and present them all together to you in a compact and useful manner. If the title and description of an item are of interest, the link can be used to quickly bring the related web page up for reading.

RSS Aggregator websites:

·        Technorati

·        FeedShow

·        NETimeChannel

·        IceRocket

·        feedraider

·        RSS Micro

·        socialmarker

·        RSS2.com

·        Jumptags.com

·        feedest

·        Blogdigger

·        GoldenFeed.com

·        FeedFury

·        RSSMountain

·        FeedAgg.com

·        RSSMotron