RSS Feed

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. An RSS feed allows you to subscribe to a website as long as the site has a RSS file without having to put in your email for updates. It contains full or a summarized text, plus some meta data such as author and publish date. These feeds are beneficial to the publisher as well, allowing them to syndicate their content automatically. RSS feeds can be read with software called an RSS Readers, which can be desktop-based, web-based, or mobile-based. The RSS reader checks the user's subscribed feeds regularly for new work, downloads any updates that it finds, and provides a user interface to monitor and read the feeds. RSS formats are specified using XML, a generic specification for the creation of data formats.