RSS has changed the entire outlook of the online news. RSS means Really Simple Syndication is the family of the web feed formats like the blogs, news updates and the likes. It is basically a format delivering regularly changing web content. An RSS document usually contains full or epitomized text and metadata of the publisher. It is the latest technology which allows you to follow information from multiple sources. These multiple sources are news websites, blogs and forums of the sort.
RSS benefits the users who would like to get the updates from their bookmarked and favorite websites. It can also be used to gather aggregate feeds from different favored websites.
How RSS works would be a major query for the web-laymen. It works by having the webmaster of the particular website maintaining the list of notifications on their website in an organized way. These notifications are called as “RSS Feeds” and users who are interested in knowing the updates check on this list. There are “RSS Aggregators” which automatically access these RSS feeds and get the results from the websites users really care about. And what makes RSS possible is XML(Extensible Markup Language) which is a kind of code for the web content that could be easily handled by variety of communication devices and mediums.
To read an RSS feed all you would need is RSS feed readers. There are numerous feed readers available online. Popular web-based feed readers would be My Yahoo, Bloglines, Google Reader and the likes. The feed readers are also available for different platforms. For eg, you have FeedReader for Windows operating system, Amphetadesk for Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems. There are several such feed readers available at users own discretion, each feed reader offering different features. Using one such feed reader would be enough for you to have an unlimited access to variety of information sources. Every time the source which has been setup is updated that particular piece of information is stored in the computer. There would be a link appearing which is clickable and when you click on the link you have the access to the entire information which could be news article, blog post or anything which was subscribed for.
So how RSS profits the most to the user is, saving time. Time being the most important constraint, RSS feeds saves the time for the users because they don’t have to visit each site individually and users can still stay informed by retrieving latest content from the sites they are interested in.
RSS has contributed a lot in the way entire online news system works. News updates are not something which are periodical in nature. One moment nothing happens and the second moment you might find out an event with incredible importance just occurred. So, how to keep track of all this? The answer is RSS and the reasons have been well justified.
Chris Williams is reporter and loves writing about online news and Hong Kong News
Article Source: http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/RSS-and-Online-News/582517
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
How You Can Instantly Tap Into an Unlimited Source of Content, for Free! by Mike Benner
Are you looking for dynamic, automatically refreshing, sticky content to spice up your website? If you are a webmaster, you’ll know how difficult it is to create fresh content to attract your subscribers and new visitors to your website. Paying freelance writers can cost you a fortune when you are just starting out and don’t have site revenues to fund expenses, and writing the articles yourself takes way too much time and takes you away from other important tasks (like actually running the site and making sales happen). Luckily, there’s a little-known but extremely easy tool that you can use to instantly jazz up your website and provide your traffic with valuable information. In fact, you might have heard of this tool before. Headline syndication, aggregators, XML format? Sound familiar? Yup, I’m talking about RSS Feeds.
If you haven’t heard about RSS Feeds, or what they are, I strongly urge you to print out this article, go to a quiet corner where you won’t be disturbed and literally devour every word of the rest of this article. Not only will it probably save your business, but it will revolutionize the way you think about the Internet. And if you’ve come across RSS feeds before or used them, then skim through the next section to refresh your memory (seriously, there is a lot of useful information that you might be missing out on) and then dive into the meat of this article, which will show you how to set up RSS feeds on your website to display dynamic, self-updating content with very little effort.
What Is RSS?
RSS stands for “Rich Site Summary”, although other terms such as “RDF Site Summary” (which emphasizes the file format) and “Really Simple Syndication” (which highlights the main selling point of RSS) are also useful in defining RSS by the book. However, bookish definitions don’t always explain things very well. What really is RSS? RSS is a platform over which a webmaster can instantly deliver summarized information about the latest / most important content on his website. This summary is usually a list of headlines and snippets – the headline will instantly inform the reader of what this new article or page contains and the snippet (usually the first few lines of the article) is to further entice the reader into visiting the website, or to simply give the reader more information. RSS has evolved into a commonly accepted XML standard, and many websites now use RSS Feeds (XML files containing the summaries) to publish “updates” about themselves. From the webmaster’s point of view, an RSS feed is meant to allow visitors and subscribers an easy way to keep themselves abreast of fresh content on their website (without having them visit the website first). Additionally, an RSS Feed also allows the reader to “preview” this fresh content, thus letting them decide immediately if the new article / content is interesting to them or not. All in all, RSS Feeds have the main purpose of enhancing user experience. Keep that last point as we go through the rest of this article – it is an underlying mindset to making RSS Feeds work effectively.
Using A RSS Feed
As an Internet entrepreneur, one of your most valuable tools can be a RSS Reader. This is essentially an aggregator – a collection of RSS Feeds (that you can add or remove) from different websites that you are interested in. A typical RSS Reader would include RSS Feeds from news sites, sports sites, and perhaps a few niche sites (such as SEO forums, blogs on SEO, etc.). The main purpose of this software is to keep you informed of the latest news and content on websites that you are interested in. If you have used My Yahoo! or Bloglines , you’ve probably used RSS Feeds already. These are online RSS aggregators – you get to choose from numerous websites and within minutes you can have your own launch-pad for knowing everything that’s happening in your niche, in the world, or in sports. As a first step to understanding how RSS Feeds work, I’d suggest that you use at least one RSS Aggregator – either an online RSS tool or RSS reading software like SharpReader – and subscribe to a few RSS Feeds to learn how it works from a user’s perspective.
Marketing and RSS
Using RSS Feeds, websites can:
* Attract more customers / visitors.
* Keep subscribers informed of new developments
* Allow subscribers to instantly learn of new articles, content and products on their website.
* Reduce the load on the subscriber’s inbox by reserving newsletters for important news, special product offers, etc.
As a webmaster, you can use RSS Feeds to your advantage. Since blogging became insanely popular over two years ago, RSS Feeds have become mainstream. In other words, no matter what your niche, there’s a good chance that you’ll be able to find a few authority sites that publish RSS Feeds, thus syndicating their latest headlines. How can you use this? By providing your visitors relevant, self-refreshing content in the shape of the “latest news” by using RSS feeds from niche-relevant websites. Now I’m not saying that you should cover your whole website (or even one whole page) with RSS Feeds. Such practice is frowned upon by search engines and will actually get your website banned from every single search engine index! RSS Feeds are meant for headline syndication, not for content scrapping. Instead, you could use headlines from the top 3 forums in the weight loss niche to show the latest discussion threads on one side of the “News” page of your own weight loss website. The rest of the page would, of course, be covered with information (i.e. latest news) about your own website. Or you could put a news ticker on your politics blog to not only give your blog a look of “being updated” but to also provide your readers with relevant, useful information. If you sell sports goods and own an online store, you could run a “sports news” feed on your main page to attract the attention of your visitors and give your website a more authentic look and feel. There are many different ways you can use RSS Feeds to add value to your website. Make sure though, that you are merely using these Feeds as “icing on the cake”, and not as the whole cake itself.
Finding RSS Feeds
Finding RSS Feeds is easy; there are several RSS-specific directories and niche search engines for you to browse through. However, the surge of blogging in the last two years has meant that any RSS search tool is inundated with blog spam. This makes it a bit harder to find RSS Feeds that you can actually use. I’ve listed a few resources below that can help you get started in your search for finding relevant RSS Feeds.
* Bloglines
* BlogPulse
* Daypop
* Feedster
* Findory Blogory
* Gigablast Blog Search
* IceRocket Blog Search
* PubSub
* Technorati
Once you’ve found the RSS Feeds of your choice, it’s time to find out how to set them up on your website.
Setting up a RSS Feed to Display on your Website
Internet Marketers are a particular breed; we’re always looking for an “easier” or “quicker” way of doing things; not necessarily shortcuts, but just ways to work smarter. It’s the same with RSS. When I first came across it, I immediately went to Google and not only picked out a tool that could help me syndicate my own website (so I wouldn’t have to spend time learning XML), but I also found several tools that I could use to display RSS Feeds from other websites onto mine! These tools are ridiculously simple, and I’d fully suggest that you try them before venturing into learning how to display RSS Feeds on your webpages through code.
If your website is in PHP, you can use the following software:
- CaRP: This software also has a free version, which displays a simple ad in the middle of the news display saying something like “these news headlines brought to you by CaRP”. Try it out; it’s easy to use, and will teach a lot about managing RSS Feeds.
There are JavaScript alternatives available as well (in case your website uses plain HTML). BUT, using javascript would sort of defeat the purpose of using an RSS feed, as search engines cannot read javascript. It appears completely invisible to them.
- Jawfish: Like CaRP, Jawfish also has a free trial, which is once again easy to setup if you can follow step-by-step instructions.
- FeedRoll: Another JavaScript alternative is FeedRoll – this is perhaps the easiest to use of the three mentioned here, but it offers less flexibility and choice of feeds compared to the others.
Of course, if you want more options (or have ASP or something on your website), go to your search engine of choice and type in “How to display RSS Feeds on my website” to get a quick listing of articles, tutorials and more tools to help you out.
RSS is an amazingly versatile platform that can be used from anything as simple as running a news ticker to something as topical and time-sensitive as providing weather alerts to affected areas. In fact, any information that is:
* regularly updated
* time sensitive
* new
can be a good candidate for a RSS Feed. The key here is to remember that there are always new uses for information and technology… it’s just a matter of pinning them down.
If you would like to learn more internet marketing strategies for optimizing the amount of money you make online, you can get a free copy of any of our best selling courses. Just tell us where to mail it and we'll send it straight to your front door. Go here: http://www.bradcallen.com
Article Source: http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/How-You-Can-Instantly-Tap-Into-an-Unlimited-Source-of-Content,-for-Free!/588583
If you haven’t heard about RSS Feeds, or what they are, I strongly urge you to print out this article, go to a quiet corner where you won’t be disturbed and literally devour every word of the rest of this article. Not only will it probably save your business, but it will revolutionize the way you think about the Internet. And if you’ve come across RSS feeds before or used them, then skim through the next section to refresh your memory (seriously, there is a lot of useful information that you might be missing out on) and then dive into the meat of this article, which will show you how to set up RSS feeds on your website to display dynamic, self-updating content with very little effort.
What Is RSS?
RSS stands for “Rich Site Summary”, although other terms such as “RDF Site Summary” (which emphasizes the file format) and “Really Simple Syndication” (which highlights the main selling point of RSS) are also useful in defining RSS by the book. However, bookish definitions don’t always explain things very well. What really is RSS? RSS is a platform over which a webmaster can instantly deliver summarized information about the latest / most important content on his website. This summary is usually a list of headlines and snippets – the headline will instantly inform the reader of what this new article or page contains and the snippet (usually the first few lines of the article) is to further entice the reader into visiting the website, or to simply give the reader more information. RSS has evolved into a commonly accepted XML standard, and many websites now use RSS Feeds (XML files containing the summaries) to publish “updates” about themselves. From the webmaster’s point of view, an RSS feed is meant to allow visitors and subscribers an easy way to keep themselves abreast of fresh content on their website (without having them visit the website first). Additionally, an RSS Feed also allows the reader to “preview” this fresh content, thus letting them decide immediately if the new article / content is interesting to them or not. All in all, RSS Feeds have the main purpose of enhancing user experience. Keep that last point as we go through the rest of this article – it is an underlying mindset to making RSS Feeds work effectively.
Using A RSS Feed
As an Internet entrepreneur, one of your most valuable tools can be a RSS Reader. This is essentially an aggregator – a collection of RSS Feeds (that you can add or remove) from different websites that you are interested in. A typical RSS Reader would include RSS Feeds from news sites, sports sites, and perhaps a few niche sites (such as SEO forums, blogs on SEO, etc.). The main purpose of this software is to keep you informed of the latest news and content on websites that you are interested in. If you have used My Yahoo! or Bloglines , you’ve probably used RSS Feeds already. These are online RSS aggregators – you get to choose from numerous websites and within minutes you can have your own launch-pad for knowing everything that’s happening in your niche, in the world, or in sports. As a first step to understanding how RSS Feeds work, I’d suggest that you use at least one RSS Aggregator – either an online RSS tool or RSS reading software like SharpReader – and subscribe to a few RSS Feeds to learn how it works from a user’s perspective.
Marketing and RSS
Using RSS Feeds, websites can:
* Attract more customers / visitors.
* Keep subscribers informed of new developments
* Allow subscribers to instantly learn of new articles, content and products on their website.
* Reduce the load on the subscriber’s inbox by reserving newsletters for important news, special product offers, etc.
As a webmaster, you can use RSS Feeds to your advantage. Since blogging became insanely popular over two years ago, RSS Feeds have become mainstream. In other words, no matter what your niche, there’s a good chance that you’ll be able to find a few authority sites that publish RSS Feeds, thus syndicating their latest headlines. How can you use this? By providing your visitors relevant, self-refreshing content in the shape of the “latest news” by using RSS feeds from niche-relevant websites. Now I’m not saying that you should cover your whole website (or even one whole page) with RSS Feeds. Such practice is frowned upon by search engines and will actually get your website banned from every single search engine index! RSS Feeds are meant for headline syndication, not for content scrapping. Instead, you could use headlines from the top 3 forums in the weight loss niche to show the latest discussion threads on one side of the “News” page of your own weight loss website. The rest of the page would, of course, be covered with information (i.e. latest news) about your own website. Or you could put a news ticker on your politics blog to not only give your blog a look of “being updated” but to also provide your readers with relevant, useful information. If you sell sports goods and own an online store, you could run a “sports news” feed on your main page to attract the attention of your visitors and give your website a more authentic look and feel. There are many different ways you can use RSS Feeds to add value to your website. Make sure though, that you are merely using these Feeds as “icing on the cake”, and not as the whole cake itself.
Finding RSS Feeds
Finding RSS Feeds is easy; there are several RSS-specific directories and niche search engines for you to browse through. However, the surge of blogging in the last two years has meant that any RSS search tool is inundated with blog spam. This makes it a bit harder to find RSS Feeds that you can actually use. I’ve listed a few resources below that can help you get started in your search for finding relevant RSS Feeds.
* Bloglines
* BlogPulse
* Daypop
* Feedster
* Findory Blogory
* Gigablast Blog Search
* IceRocket Blog Search
* PubSub
* Technorati
Once you’ve found the RSS Feeds of your choice, it’s time to find out how to set them up on your website.
Setting up a RSS Feed to Display on your Website
Internet Marketers are a particular breed; we’re always looking for an “easier” or “quicker” way of doing things; not necessarily shortcuts, but just ways to work smarter. It’s the same with RSS. When I first came across it, I immediately went to Google and not only picked out a tool that could help me syndicate my own website (so I wouldn’t have to spend time learning XML), but I also found several tools that I could use to display RSS Feeds from other websites onto mine! These tools are ridiculously simple, and I’d fully suggest that you try them before venturing into learning how to display RSS Feeds on your webpages through code.
If your website is in PHP, you can use the following software:
- CaRP: This software also has a free version, which displays a simple ad in the middle of the news display saying something like “these news headlines brought to you by CaRP”. Try it out; it’s easy to use, and will teach a lot about managing RSS Feeds.
There are JavaScript alternatives available as well (in case your website uses plain HTML). BUT, using javascript would sort of defeat the purpose of using an RSS feed, as search engines cannot read javascript. It appears completely invisible to them.
- Jawfish: Like CaRP, Jawfish also has a free trial, which is once again easy to setup if you can follow step-by-step instructions.
- FeedRoll: Another JavaScript alternative is FeedRoll – this is perhaps the easiest to use of the three mentioned here, but it offers less flexibility and choice of feeds compared to the others.
Of course, if you want more options (or have ASP or something on your website), go to your search engine of choice and type in “How to display RSS Feeds on my website” to get a quick listing of articles, tutorials and more tools to help you out.
RSS is an amazingly versatile platform that can be used from anything as simple as running a news ticker to something as topical and time-sensitive as providing weather alerts to affected areas. In fact, any information that is:
* regularly updated
* time sensitive
* new
can be a good candidate for a RSS Feed. The key here is to remember that there are always new uses for information and technology… it’s just a matter of pinning them down.
If you would like to learn more internet marketing strategies for optimizing the amount of money you make online, you can get a free copy of any of our best selling courses. Just tell us where to mail it and we'll send it straight to your front door. Go here: http://www.bradcallen.com
Article Source: http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/How-You-Can-Instantly-Tap-Into-an-Unlimited-Source-of-Content,-for-Free!/588583
What is RSS? What does it contribute to internet marketing? by Gwyn Estember
When you visit a site, you may have seen either one of these two buttons, the RSS or the XML button. These buttons represent the RSS feed of the website and written in the internet coding language known as XML. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. It may also referred to as Rich Site Summary or Real-time Simple Syndication. But they only mean one thing. RSS feed shows the latest headline for a website or a weblog or could be a format for delivering regularly web content changes.
RSS is used to easily give out lists of headlines, notices or any updated content such as blog entries or could be podcasts in a standardized format. RSS feed may contain a summary of content or the full text of documents. It could also be a simple title describing the item along with a more complete description and there is a link that will direct you to the webpage with the actual information being described. It is a list presented in order from the newest to the oldest. In the simplest manner, RSS can also be used to notify customers of new products in store, weather and other alerts of changing conditions, notification of additions in products offered and other short notices about what's going on a particular website.
Why use RSS? How can it help your online business or to people searching searching for their specific needs? Well, for most people who has a favorite site already and repeatedly checking its changes can be very tedious. Changes made on content by website providers are on a predictable schedule also so avid visitors would want to get updated by the changes. Previously, notifications were sent through emails, however, when you receive email notifications from multiple websites, they are usually disorganized and can get overwhelming, and are often mistaken for spam. And so RSS is a better way to be notified of changes because the messages are presented well organized. They just go directly to someone's computer or online feed reader once he or she subscribed to the website's feed and rest assured that he or she can see it.
Now, many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS feed to whoever wants it. If you own a website or business online, RSS feeds can provide you a more efficient way to deliver newsletters to subscribers and possibly can increase number of subscribers and generate more sales too.. You ensure people's privacy and with this, people would like it better than joining the site's email newsletter. That's why number of sites offering RSS feeds is growing rapidly. Once people have subscribed to your RSS feed, they will be constantly reminded of your website or blog and so be encouraged to visit more often. Also when you use RSS on your website, it can pull rich content from external sites into your own as well as publish content in an easy to read format for external sites and applications to use. The content you published can attract visitors you wouldn’t have had if you didn’t use RSS – this can lead to sales as a direct result of using RSS on your website.
Producing an RSS feed is very simple and it works by having the website author maintain a list of notifications on their website in a standard way. This list of notifications is called "RSS Feed". Then the special computer programs that has been developed to automatically access the RSS feeds of websites will be the one to organize the results for you. This allows users to view all the new content from multiple sources in one location on their desktop for quick scanning. So users save time by not needing to visit each site individually. The success of using RSS has been proven by many websites and in fact big names in the business have been using it also.
Gwyn ais a employee of DotComSecrets which teaches various internet marketing strategies to internet business owners.
Article Source: http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/What-is-RSS?-What-does-it-contribute-to-internet-marketing?/541795
RSS is used to easily give out lists of headlines, notices or any updated content such as blog entries or could be podcasts in a standardized format. RSS feed may contain a summary of content or the full text of documents. It could also be a simple title describing the item along with a more complete description and there is a link that will direct you to the webpage with the actual information being described. It is a list presented in order from the newest to the oldest. In the simplest manner, RSS can also be used to notify customers of new products in store, weather and other alerts of changing conditions, notification of additions in products offered and other short notices about what's going on a particular website.
Why use RSS? How can it help your online business or to people searching searching for their specific needs? Well, for most people who has a favorite site already and repeatedly checking its changes can be very tedious. Changes made on content by website providers are on a predictable schedule also so avid visitors would want to get updated by the changes. Previously, notifications were sent through emails, however, when you receive email notifications from multiple websites, they are usually disorganized and can get overwhelming, and are often mistaken for spam. And so RSS is a better way to be notified of changes because the messages are presented well organized. They just go directly to someone's computer or online feed reader once he or she subscribed to the website's feed and rest assured that he or she can see it.
Now, many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS feed to whoever wants it. If you own a website or business online, RSS feeds can provide you a more efficient way to deliver newsletters to subscribers and possibly can increase number of subscribers and generate more sales too.. You ensure people's privacy and with this, people would like it better than joining the site's email newsletter. That's why number of sites offering RSS feeds is growing rapidly. Once people have subscribed to your RSS feed, they will be constantly reminded of your website or blog and so be encouraged to visit more often. Also when you use RSS on your website, it can pull rich content from external sites into your own as well as publish content in an easy to read format for external sites and applications to use. The content you published can attract visitors you wouldn’t have had if you didn’t use RSS – this can lead to sales as a direct result of using RSS on your website.
Producing an RSS feed is very simple and it works by having the website author maintain a list of notifications on their website in a standard way. This list of notifications is called "RSS Feed". Then the special computer programs that has been developed to automatically access the RSS feeds of websites will be the one to organize the results for you. This allows users to view all the new content from multiple sources in one location on their desktop for quick scanning. So users save time by not needing to visit each site individually. The success of using RSS has been proven by many websites and in fact big names in the business have been using it also.
Gwyn ais a employee of DotComSecrets which teaches various internet marketing strategies to internet business owners.
Article Source: http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/What-is-RSS?-What-does-it-contribute-to-internet-marketing?/541795
RSS And Blogs Are Friends Together by Terry Detty
Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a tool useful for saving or retaining updated information on websites that you frequently visit or websites that are your favorite. RSS utilizes an XML code which scans continuously the content or subject matter of a certain website in search for new informations then transmits the information updates by way of feeding the information to subscribers.
RSS feeds are generally being utilized in blogs or news sites, though any website wanting to broadcast and publish information can use them. Once new information is sent, it will contain a headline, a little bit of text, and either a rundown or a brief review of the news or story. A link is needed be clicked upon to read further.
So as to accept RSS feeds, a feed reader is needed, called an aggregator. Aggregators are widely and freely available online, and all that is needed is a bit of searching, you will be able to locate a certain interface that best interest you. What’s more, RSS feeds can likewise be read and retrieved from cell phones and on PDAs.
Once you encounter upon a website that you want to add or insert to the aggregator, the process can be done in two ways. Almost all sites offering an RSS feed displays an “RSS” or “XML” button in their homepage and with one click, it promptly add that particular feed to one’s aggregator. Some aggregator however, requires the need to copy and then paste the URL of the feed unto the program.
Whatever the method used, you can be certain that the feed will be accessible soon as you have inserted it, likewise, in just seconds, the next update can arrive. In the event that you do not anymore would want to accept or take in updates, you may simply delete or erase the feed from the aggregator.
Through e-mail subscriptions, you can receive newsletters. RSS feeds on the other hand, can be more convenient in keeping up with newsletter updates since they are prompt and available in an instant; you no longer have to wait for a scheduled time or day to obtain a news summary, plus, these news will never be detained through a spam filter.
RSS feeds are widely used everyday by individuals who understand and appreciate the accessibility of fast reports and news that can be readily read and only read certain updates that appeals to them.
Aggregators
Aggregators are popular use of feeds, having several kinds. Web aggregators or portals as they are sometimes called, create this view which is then made available in a Web page. Also, Aggregators have been incorporated into e-mail patrons, users of desktops, or dedicated and standalone software.
Offering a collection of special features, such as combining more than a few related feeds in just a single view, hiding certain entries or statements that has been already viewed, and classifying entries and feeds, the aggregator is a versatile component.
Why make a feed available?
You will have more viewers, since now, your viewers can conveniently see your site without even going out and looking for that certain site. While at first, it may seem corrupt, it will in fact enhance the visibility of your site; this is so because users can easily keep up or keep tract with your site, to allow them to view in a way that they want to; it’s more probable that guests are aware should something that is in their interest is available or accessible on your site.
For instance, every month your website broadcasts a new feature. Having no feed, your viewers will always have to keep in mind to go to your site in a certain time to see if they discover something new; that is, if they can remember, and if they still have the time. However, if you supply a feed for your viewers, they can just point to their aggregator and it will instantly provide them a link along with a description of happenings or events at your site immediately.
What format to choose?
Syndication is very confusing as it uses a lot of formats that can usually be come across in the web. However, this can easily be solved as in general, syndicated libraries are used by aggregators which conceptualize a particular format that a feed is in, in order that they can utilize a certain syndication feed.
With this, whatever format to pick is just a matter of personal preference. RSS 1.0 is far reaching, and practical should it be integrated into Semantic Web systems. RSS 2.0 is very easy and simple create by hand. And atom is an IETF Standard, does it brings constancy, stability and a natural and accepted community to support its usage.
Terry Detty uses Web Site Marketing and Search Engine Marketing for higher SEO Rankings. Greater Results can be seen with high quality Web Linking.
Article Source: http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/RSS-And-Blogs-Are-Friends-Together/567047
RSS feeds are generally being utilized in blogs or news sites, though any website wanting to broadcast and publish information can use them. Once new information is sent, it will contain a headline, a little bit of text, and either a rundown or a brief review of the news or story. A link is needed be clicked upon to read further.
So as to accept RSS feeds, a feed reader is needed, called an aggregator. Aggregators are widely and freely available online, and all that is needed is a bit of searching, you will be able to locate a certain interface that best interest you. What’s more, RSS feeds can likewise be read and retrieved from cell phones and on PDAs.
Once you encounter upon a website that you want to add or insert to the aggregator, the process can be done in two ways. Almost all sites offering an RSS feed displays an “RSS” or “XML” button in their homepage and with one click, it promptly add that particular feed to one’s aggregator. Some aggregator however, requires the need to copy and then paste the URL of the feed unto the program.
Whatever the method used, you can be certain that the feed will be accessible soon as you have inserted it, likewise, in just seconds, the next update can arrive. In the event that you do not anymore would want to accept or take in updates, you may simply delete or erase the feed from the aggregator.
Through e-mail subscriptions, you can receive newsletters. RSS feeds on the other hand, can be more convenient in keeping up with newsletter updates since they are prompt and available in an instant; you no longer have to wait for a scheduled time or day to obtain a news summary, plus, these news will never be detained through a spam filter.
RSS feeds are widely used everyday by individuals who understand and appreciate the accessibility of fast reports and news that can be readily read and only read certain updates that appeals to them.
Aggregators
Aggregators are popular use of feeds, having several kinds. Web aggregators or portals as they are sometimes called, create this view which is then made available in a Web page. Also, Aggregators have been incorporated into e-mail patrons, users of desktops, or dedicated and standalone software.
Offering a collection of special features, such as combining more than a few related feeds in just a single view, hiding certain entries or statements that has been already viewed, and classifying entries and feeds, the aggregator is a versatile component.
Why make a feed available?
You will have more viewers, since now, your viewers can conveniently see your site without even going out and looking for that certain site. While at first, it may seem corrupt, it will in fact enhance the visibility of your site; this is so because users can easily keep up or keep tract with your site, to allow them to view in a way that they want to; it’s more probable that guests are aware should something that is in their interest is available or accessible on your site.
For instance, every month your website broadcasts a new feature. Having no feed, your viewers will always have to keep in mind to go to your site in a certain time to see if they discover something new; that is, if they can remember, and if they still have the time. However, if you supply a feed for your viewers, they can just point to their aggregator and it will instantly provide them a link along with a description of happenings or events at your site immediately.
What format to choose?
Syndication is very confusing as it uses a lot of formats that can usually be come across in the web. However, this can easily be solved as in general, syndicated libraries are used by aggregators which conceptualize a particular format that a feed is in, in order that they can utilize a certain syndication feed.
With this, whatever format to pick is just a matter of personal preference. RSS 1.0 is far reaching, and practical should it be integrated into Semantic Web systems. RSS 2.0 is very easy and simple create by hand. And atom is an IETF Standard, does it brings constancy, stability and a natural and accepted community to support its usage.
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Article Source: http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/RSS-And-Blogs-Are-Friends-Together/567047
RSS the Future of E-learning by sahil kumar
RSS wears many a hats - rich site summary, really simple syndication- RSS or even Resource Description Framework (RDF).
RSS is basically a lighter XML format designed for sharing Web content. As it is one of the simplest uses of XML, RSS has become widely distributed. The RSS file can include a logo, a site link, an input box, and multiple news items. Each news item consists of a URL, a title, and a summary.
Because the data is in XML, and not a display language like HTML, RSS information can be flowed into a large number of devices. In addition to being used to create news summary web pages, RSS can be fed into stand-alone news browsers or headline viewers, PDAs, cell phones, email ticklers and even voice updates.
RSS files are created by content publishers and then delivered to people who have subscribed to that feed using a "feed reader" application also called a news aggregator. The feed reader program checks with the originator of the content regularly and if it finds any new content available from a particular site, downloads the information about it, called metadata, into the application automatically.
An RSS aggregator is a type of software that periodically reads sets of RSS files and indexes them for display or syndication. There are two major types of aggregator: centralized and personal. Aggregators are the most common use of feeds. Web aggregators make this view available in a Web page. Aggregators have also been integrated into e-mail clients, user's desktops, or standalone, dedicated software. Aggregators can offer a variety of special features, including combining several related feeds into a single view, hiding entries that the viewer has already seen, and categorizing feeds and entries.
RSS & Elearning
Beyond personal use, RSS feeds can also be used to republish, or syndicate, content on Websites. Prescient learning technologist Stephen Downes discussed the usefulness of RSS with online courses back in 2000 in his article "Content Syndication and Online Learning." He wrote, "[Using RSS or similar tools], any course...can tap into up-to-date resources from remote sources...[so that] content is tailored specifically for the course."
Rather than collecting content in a central repository, requiring an expensive software application, the RSS model distributes content across the World Wide Web, allowing access piece by piece. "For that reason," Downes says in his article "An Introduction to RSS for Educational Designers" that "the distribution of content over the Internet will look a lot more like an RSS network than... an enterprise content management system." More people will use the distributed learning object network "not only because it's easier and cheaper, but because they can access much more content for much less money."
Educational uses of RSS are many ......
subscribing to feeds on particular topics to stay current
publishing syndicated content on course Websites or blogs
having learners create their own blogs and then subscribing to the feeds of all those blogs to check new content on them
notifying learners about new available courses
updating learners on new internal or external resources available on a training topic
Subscribing to feeds from learning object repositories to see the newest objects added or objects added in a topic they're developing a course on.
Conclusion
Though not the perfect solution, as it does have a few kinks that have to be worked out. Like the lack of digital rights management for both original articles and metadata feeds and RSSs inability to deal with mixed metadata. RSS has the potential to be the future tool of Elearning.
Sahil Kumar, is a development expert working with elearning solution india. Currently managing and maintaining elearning management system. A storehouse of knowledge about elearning programs.
Article Source: http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/RSS-the-Future-of-E-learning/573934
RSS is basically a lighter XML format designed for sharing Web content. As it is one of the simplest uses of XML, RSS has become widely distributed. The RSS file can include a logo, a site link, an input box, and multiple news items. Each news item consists of a URL, a title, and a summary.
Because the data is in XML, and not a display language like HTML, RSS information can be flowed into a large number of devices. In addition to being used to create news summary web pages, RSS can be fed into stand-alone news browsers or headline viewers, PDAs, cell phones, email ticklers and even voice updates.
RSS files are created by content publishers and then delivered to people who have subscribed to that feed using a "feed reader" application also called a news aggregator. The feed reader program checks with the originator of the content regularly and if it finds any new content available from a particular site, downloads the information about it, called metadata, into the application automatically.
An RSS aggregator is a type of software that periodically reads sets of RSS files and indexes them for display or syndication. There are two major types of aggregator: centralized and personal. Aggregators are the most common use of feeds. Web aggregators make this view available in a Web page. Aggregators have also been integrated into e-mail clients, user's desktops, or standalone, dedicated software. Aggregators can offer a variety of special features, including combining several related feeds into a single view, hiding entries that the viewer has already seen, and categorizing feeds and entries.
RSS & Elearning
Beyond personal use, RSS feeds can also be used to republish, or syndicate, content on Websites. Prescient learning technologist Stephen Downes discussed the usefulness of RSS with online courses back in 2000 in his article "Content Syndication and Online Learning." He wrote, "[Using RSS or similar tools], any course...can tap into up-to-date resources from remote sources...[so that] content is tailored specifically for the course."
Rather than collecting content in a central repository, requiring an expensive software application, the RSS model distributes content across the World Wide Web, allowing access piece by piece. "For that reason," Downes says in his article "An Introduction to RSS for Educational Designers" that "the distribution of content over the Internet will look a lot more like an RSS network than... an enterprise content management system." More people will use the distributed learning object network "not only because it's easier and cheaper, but because they can access much more content for much less money."
Educational uses of RSS are many ......
subscribing to feeds on particular topics to stay current
publishing syndicated content on course Websites or blogs
having learners create their own blogs and then subscribing to the feeds of all those blogs to check new content on them
notifying learners about new available courses
updating learners on new internal or external resources available on a training topic
Subscribing to feeds from learning object repositories to see the newest objects added or objects added in a topic they're developing a course on.
Conclusion
Though not the perfect solution, as it does have a few kinks that have to be worked out. Like the lack of digital rights management for both original articles and metadata feeds and RSSs inability to deal with mixed metadata. RSS has the potential to be the future tool of Elearning.
Sahil Kumar, is a development expert working with elearning solution india. Currently managing and maintaining elearning management system. A storehouse of knowledge about elearning programs.
Article Source: http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/RSS-the-Future-of-E-learning/573934
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