RSS feeds are one of my favorite aspects of the Web 2.0 ‘revolution’:
Almost all blogs (this blog and the forum included), new sites and the main web 2.0 sites (Facebook, Flickr, ….) all publish these standardized data streams. Basically, RSS is a standard for the formatting of news information: every article has a publication date, a title, the content, a link,… So, instead of html tags, the information is marked up using xml tags.
So, if you want to keep up with new postings you don’t always have to come back to this page: instead, ’subscribe to the rss feed’ using your browser, a dedicated program, or online tools, like Google Reader. By subscribing to all your favorite web blogs and sites, you can now check the newest postings in one place.
RSS feeds are also one of the technologies that make mash-ups possible.
Do you use RSS feeds in your daily life?
Helmut Doll
I use RSS feeds in Google Reader because it’s like a one-stop shop. I embed the Google Reader into an iGoogle page so I can check my mail, twitter feeds, calendar and RSS feeds from one spot.
I use Google Reader for RSS feeds. Having updates from multiple sites delivered directly makes it easier to keep up! Some of my favorite feeds are the TED video site and my company’s external blog and of course our this blog.
Here is a site with lots of rss info:
http://www.rss-specifications.com/
And one more:
http://pelfusion.com/tools/30-web-20-rss-applications-sites/