Benefits of RSS Feeds

RSS feeds is the way of delivering web contents or blogs on regular basis to subscribers. It is short for rich site summary. In delivering their content to subscribers, online publishers, weblogs and other sites use it. The most convenient way for web users to keep track of the sites they are interested in is the RSS feeds. This is because every time there is a new content, the subscriber is automatically fed with the content. Therefore, you will be notified of new announcement, news or anything about the site by simply subscribing using the RSS feed. In other words, without having to constantly check your favorite sites for latest news or information, you will be kept updated. Moreover, you will not be required to join the email newsletter of the site so you do not have to worry about your privacy.
This is the newest way of delivering information to the regular web user and a lot of sites offer it. You can use FeedReader, Amphetadesk and News Aggregator, if you are thinking of what software you need to read the feeds. Bloglines, Goolge Reader and other sites are web based feed readers. After you have chosen your feed reader, you now find your favorite sites and add them to the list of your feeds. Just look for the small icons with XML, RDF or RSS if you want to know if the site is offering feeds.
RSS feeds also has different versions like other web based technology. Its versions are categorized into two groups. The first is the RDF or RSS 1 and the second is the RSS 2. The RSS 1 includes the RSS 0.90, which was the original RSS of Netscape. Then there is the open format RSS 1.0. And lastly there is the RSS 1.1, which is an open format like the previous version but it was not endorsed by the RSS Dev Working Group.

The RSS 2 has the RSS 0.91, which is the simple version of the original Netscape RSS. Then there are the versions compatible with 0.91 Winer version and with each other, the RSS 0.92 to 0.94. Lastly, there is the international version, the RSS 2.0.1. You will not have any problem reading your feeds since most sites support both the two types of versions. You should try using RSS feeds if you are among the web users who have different and many interests. You will be surprised at how the feeds can save you time by instead of visiting regularly your favorite sites.

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