what are rss feeds & what do they do?
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RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated pages, such as blogs or news feeds. Consumers of RSS content use special browsers called aggregators to watch for new content in dozens or even hundreds of web feeds. The initials "RSS" are variously used to refer to the following standards:\n\nReally Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0) \nRich Site Summary (RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0) \nRDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9 and 1.0) \nRSS formats are specified in XML (a generic specification for data formats). RSS delivers its information as an XML file called an "RSS feed", "webfeed", "RSS stream", or "RSS channel".\n\nUsage\n\nPrograms known as feed readers or aggregators can check a list of feeds on behalf of a user and display any updated articles that they find. It is common to find web feeds on major websites and many smaller ones. Some websites let people choose between RSS or Atom formatted web feeds; others offer only RSS or only Atom.\n\nRSS-aware programs are available for various operating systems. Client-side readers and aggregators are typically constructed as standalone programs or extensions to existing programs such as web browsers and Email readers. Many browsers have integrated support for RSS feeds. There also are other applications that can convert an RSS feed into several usenet articles, viewable through the major newsreader software such as Mozilla Thunderbird or Forté Agent: an example of such applications are nntp//rss, a Java coded program, or RSS Feed Converter a script for the popular mail-newsserver Hamster.\n\nWeb-based feed readers and news aggregators such as YourLiveWire or NewsGator Online require no software installation and make the user's "feeds" available on any computer with Web access. Some aggregators combine existing web feeds into new feeds, e.g., taking all football related items from several sports feeds and providing a new football feed. There are also search engines for content published via web feeds like Feedster or Blogdigger.\n\nOn Web pages, web feeds (RSS or Atom) are typically linked with the word "Subscribe", an orange rectangle, , or with the letters  or . Many news aggregators such as My Yahoo! publish subscription buttons for use on Web pages to simplify the process of adding news feeds.
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http://www.gnextinc.com/nascar/feeds.html#rss \nhttp://www.thatsracin.com/mld/thatsracin/rss/ \nNOT EXACTLY SURE WHAT THIS WAS BUT WHEN I LOOKED THIS IS WHAT I GOT HOPE IT HELPED
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Use a link like the one below.\n\n<a type="application/rss+xml" href="http://www.yoursite.com/yourfeed.rss"> RSS Feed</a>\n\nOr put an "Add to Yahoo!" button on your site using the link below:
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RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication." It’s a format that web sites and blogs can use to send updated headlines to you via services like My Yahoo!. My Yahoo! gathers the content you select from a variety of sources and displays it for you in one convenient location. Syndication means you don't have to visit each site individually to see what's new -- you simply scan headlines or brief article summaries and click to read the full text. That’s the "really simple" part. And it’s "really simple" for publishers to make their content accessible this way too.\n\nTo use RSS, you will need a special RSS news reader or aggregator that will allow you to collect and display RSS service. RSS news readers allow you to view the service you select all together in the same place and, by automatically retrieving updates, stay current with new content soon after it is published.\n\nThere are many different news readers available, many for free. Most news readers are applications that you download and install. Some others are web-based service you sign-up for that work inside your browser. Listed below are some popular options:\nhttp://my.yahoo.com/s/rss-faq.html\nhttp://www.feedburner.com \nhttp://reader.google.com \nhttp://www.newsisfree.com\n\nAnswers your ????
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There are three main ways you could approach using RSS in your daily interactions online.\n\nWeb\nYou could use a free online service to aggregate the contents of your chosen feeds. Most popular of them all would be Bloglines, but of course you can easily search online for more. See [1].\n\nLocal\nAnother option is to run an application locally from your computer. Many of these programs exist nowadays, so you're really spoilt for choice in this department. See [2] for a partial list of popular programs.\n\nEmail\nYes, read RSS via email! Many people are doing this now. It's a brilliant little hack if you don't mind getting a few extra posts per day. See [3].\n\nEnjoy RSS!
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Want more traffic? An easy way to distribute your news? Then you need an RSS news feed. To start all you need is content you want broadcast, and one RSS text file.\n\nWhat is RSS?\nReally Simple Syndication (RSS) is a lightweight XML format designed for sharing headlines and other Web content. Think of it as a distributable "What's New" for your site. Originated by UserLand in 1997 and subsequently used by Netscape to fill channels for Netcenter, RSS has evolved into a popular means of sharing content between sites (including the BBC, CNET, CNN, Disney, Forbes, Motley Fool, Wired, Red Herring, Salon, Slashdot, ZDNet, and more). RSS solves myriad problems webmasters commonly face, such as increasing traffic, and gathering and distributing news. RSS can also be the basis for additional content distribution services.\n\nRSS Syntax\nRSS defines an XML grammar (a set of HTML-like tags) for sharing news. Each RSS text file contains both static information about your site, plus dynamic information about your new stories, all surrounded by matching start and end tags.\n\nEach story is defined by an <item> tag, which contains a headline TITLE, URL, and DESCRIPTION. Here's an example: \n\n...\n<item>\n  <title>RSS Resources</title>\n  <link>http://www.webreference.com/authoring/languages/xml/rss/</link>\n  <description>Defined in XML, the Rich Site Summary (RSS) format has\n  quietly become a dominant format for distributing headlines on the Web.\n  Our list of links gives you the tools, tips and tutorials you need to get\n  started using RSS. 0323</description>\n</item>\n...\n\nEach RSS channel can contain up to 15 items and is easily parsed using Perl or other open source software. If you want more details on creating RSS files see Jonathan Eisenzopf's excellent article in the February issue of Web Techniques. But you don't have to worry about the details, we've made it easy to create your own RSS channel with free open source scripts, all Web based. More on these later.\n\nOnce you've created and validated your RSS text file, register it at the various aggregators, and watch the hits roll in. Any site can now grab and display your feed regularly, driving traffic your way. Update your RSS file, and all the external sites that subscribe to your feed will be automatically updated. What can be easier? But wait, there's more.
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A Feed Reader lets you read all your subscriptions (digital newsletters, digital newspapers and even many other Web pages that change such as you e-mail (Gmail) or a wiki. Then, you don´t need to read them in your E-mail account. Effects: your E-mail storage is not disturbed; o spam newsletters in your E-mail account; and all your favorite pages can be viewed like one, at the moment at which webmaster changes the page (live), and you only view the changes (no more view the same thing twice); although, you can view your favorite web pages faster (like Flash, like a thunder). When you haven´t a good feed reader like Google Reader you are a turtle.\n\nWell, I recommend you register in Google Reader or other Feed Reader like Rojo. Then type any newsletter or newspaper the search engine and suscribe all you like. Click the first link in the sources (below), then you will can access to a My Google Reader account picture. Put your arrow over the top of the photo an and you can view a commentary about the search engine.\nThose are the basics about an RSS reader.\n\nA lot of more information exists. For example, if you click in a RSS icon in a Web page you can access to he feed, then, you can copy the Web URL and then, go to your Feed Reader (Google Reader, or whoever) and Add the URL as a Subscription, then, you can read the subscription in your Feed Reader.\n\nFirst, focus on the basics (below).
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Mario,\n\nRSS is one of the technologies that makes podcasting possible and so popular.\n\nRSS (Really Simple Synidcation) is a standard for creating a feed file that you can subscribe to (usually for free). The purpose of subscribing to an RSS feed is to automatically be notified of and receive new content from a blog, web page or podcast as soon as it is posted. This is done by subscribing to the feed in an aggregator/reader such as your My Yahoo page.\n\nYou mentioned your "RSS folder". I imagine what you are referring to is some sort of feed reader.\n\nAn RSS feed can contain text/images (such as blog posts) and/or a link to a media file (such as audio or video). In the latter case, this is referred to as a podcast. If you're using a podcatcher (podcast aggregator) any media files linked to in a feed are automatically downloaded to your computer for you to consume.
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Wikipedia has an example of how your XML should look for RSS 1.0, as well as extra tutorials linked at the bottom of the page for how to set it up.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_%28file_format%29\n\nIf you use Mozilla Firefox, there's a great extension that makes it very easy to create the feeds. (I use it.) It's called simply RSS Editor.
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RSS feeds are usually just the headline scrolling across some sort of RSS News Viewer.  However, depending on the viewer, you might have a link to click to read more info.\n\nMy modified xbox runs XBMC (A special dashboard or operating system)  It takes a link to an RSS feed in the configuration, and on the main home screen it displays a list of news articles on the RSS feed.\n\nSee:\nhttp://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html\n\nhttp://rssview.sourceforge.net/
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Go here.  They have a script you can add to your HTML that will display a feed right on your web page.\n\nhttp://p3k.org/rss
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Blogging, Generating RSS feed, having a robots.txt file
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What are some of your interests/hobbies?\n\n- You could provide RSS feeds to articles related to your favorite pasttime.\n\n- You could keep a blog and provide RSS feeds to link people back to your blog / entries in your blog.\n\n- If you're part of a group or committee, you could provide RSS feeds to websites related to your group's focus.\n\n- If you have a personal web page with pictures/information for friends, you could provide an RSS feed as new content is uploaded.\n\nBasically, anything web content that is updated periodically can be part of an RSS feed.
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RSS allows you to download your favorite content from the web and keep it updated automatically. Its kind of like storing a web page. Every site that has it explains how it works just click the "What is RSS" link on any web site.
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Hi Mom!\n\nyour rss is fine. it's yahoo's fault! they don't update feeds often enough! they have a little utility they call pinging that will do an update.\n\nhttp://publisher.yahoo.com/rss_guide/submit.php#latest
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RSS as a document isn't meant to be viewed, the RSS document is a simple 'standardized' format, which allows an RSS feed reader to parse the document, to which you receive a subject to the item, a link to the item and a short description, those are the most common included in the feed, there are numerous others.\n\nYou can find a whole list of RSS readers here : http://www.rssformat.com\n\nThe simplest RSS feed could resemble this:\n\n<?xml version="1.0"?>\n<rss version="2.0">\n   <channel>\n      <topic>Feed title</topic>\n      <link>http://feed-link.com</link>\n      <description>Feed description</description>\n   \n      <item>\n         <title>Feed item title1</title>\n         <link>Feed item link1</title>\n         <description>Feed item description1</description>\n      </item>\n   \n      <item>\n         <title>Feed item title2</title>\n         <link>Feed item link2</title>\n         <description>Feed item description2</description>\n      </item>\n   </channel>\n</rss>\n    \nAdditionally, the wikipedia page goes into more detail:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format)\n\nRSS 2.0 Specification:\nhttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
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RSS is short for Really Simple Syndication, a method devised to "push" or drive content you're interested in receiving to you, instead of you going to the content and retrieving it. An RSS feed is that content.\n\nYou've probably noticed more and more websites with "RSS" displayed on them.  That means that part or all of that site can be delivered to you via RSS.  Generally you click on it to find what content is available, where there will be special links to that content that you copy in order to paste into your RSS reader.\n\nThe RSS reader translates the code (called XML) from the link and displays regular HTML links for you to access on the content provider's site.\n\nWhile there are several reader programs available, I use My Yahoo!, which has a built-in RSS reader.