RSS (most commonly expanded as Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication) is a technology that is being used by millions of web users to keep track of their favorite blogs & websites. Many news-releated sites, weblogs and other online publishers and even social media sites syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it.
Rss allows you to easily stay informed by retrieving the latest content from the sites you are interested in. Rather than bookmarking all the sites and all the subpages you regularly visit or keep in touch you can subscribe to their RSS feeds and follow and better than that be notified about the new content in one central location.
RSS feeds can be read using software called an “RSS reader”, “feed reader”, or “aggregator”, which can be web-based, desktop-based, or mobile-device-based. There are lots of RSS Reader Software and websites around. I prefer NewsGator’s FeedDemon and Google’s Online Reader for my own use. FeedDemon is my favorite RSS reader software for years, and its Google Reader synchronization feature allows me to reach my feeds anywhere using Google Reader.
Did you find it to complicated, or doesn’t want to use an extra software to subscribe a site? Most of the sites that offers RSS feeds also has an option to subscribe the feed with your email. Some use their own e-mail subscriptions to notify you about new content, and some use feedburner (a service operated by google) e-mail subscriptions to send you daily updates about new posts.
For example, here on markneter you can subscribe the RSS Feeds (There is a site wide feed, and category feeds) either by using your popular reader or by feed burner e-mail subscriptions. On the top right there is a box to subscribe with e-mail and the RSS feed links to subscribe using a reader. I am using feedburners e-mail subscription system which will keep your e-mail address private (No one other than google guys can see it, including me) and it will be used only to notify you daily if there is a new post on that day.
Here is a complete list of marknter’s RSS feeds.
Further Reading:
RSS Explained on whatisrss.com
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