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What is RSS?
RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication" - it's a format for distributing and gathering content from sources across the Web, including newspapers, magazines, and blogs. RSS is an easy way for Web sites to share headlines and stories from other sites. Increasing numbers of news services are now offering an RSS feed. RSS is a text-based format, a type of XML. You should know that only because RSS files are often labeled as XML. RSS version 1.0 is also RDF (whatever), which, again, is important only because an RSS file may be labeled as RDF. One of the most useful aspects of RSS is that it enables you to create your own "newspaper" of headlines from the news sources of your choice.
How do I use RSS?
1) Using your Internet browser and a portal site As of yet, most browsers do not support directly reading an RSS feed (Safari is an example of one that does). However, web site services/portals such as My Yahoo! and My MSN allow you to read RSS feeds through your Web browser on your personalized pages. Below are buttons to add our feed to some of the more popular portals.
2) Using an aggregator program There is software designed for reading RSS that you download or run through your browser. Aggregator software that runs on your own computer may be a stand-alone program or integrated into a program that you already use, such as Microsoft Outlook. Yahoo! has a directory of aggregator programs. Below are buttons to add our feed to a few of the more popular and respected browser based aggregators.
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