Now a days we see yellow button marked RSS in most popular news sites BBC, CNN etc also in some Blog sites. So, Question rises in mind! What is this RSS? RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. RSS also know as feeds. Feeds mean what we eat. Here, feeds are news headlines, information etc. But How will I eat this kind of feeds (information, news) So, we need reader that is called RSS reader. It is a software, You can think as Adobe acrobat reader that usually reads .PDF files. There are many kinds of RSS reader for different platform(operating system). RSS file most like simple text file formatted as XML. Do you know XML. XML is nothing but a writing format some like HTML.

How do I start using feeds ? : In general first thing you need is called RSS reader or aggregators. This is a piece of software that check the feeds and let you read the RSS articles. Once you have chosen a news reader, all you have to do is to decide what content you want it to receive. For example, if you would like the latest BBC News Entertainment stories, simply visit the Entertainment section and you will notice an orange button on the left hand side. dragging the URL of the feed into your news reader or by cutting and pasting the same URL into a new feed in your news reader. That means you should attach all of your preferable RSS links into your RSS reader/aggregator. You have regularly no need to go through those site for updated news or information where link is actually located. You will always get update articles of different sites sitting on singles place(RSS reader) whenever it will be updated in actual sites(from where you have taken the RSS feed).

What benefit of RSS feeds? : News feeds allow you to see when websites have added new content. You can get the latest headlines and video in one place, as soon as its published, without having to visit the websites you have taken the feed from.

Syntax of RSS file: To see the format of RSS looks like, click on the yellow button RRS and open it in new page then you will see the format like bellow -


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