Thursday 4 December 2008

A Powerful Web 2.0 application : RSS

RSS can be simply described as a XML based web feeding system used for informing internet users about the latest news and additions in a particular webpage. Since RSS became very famous internet tool, its field of application is getting larger and larger with each passing day. Newsletters and blogs are the most popular ones.

RSS offers many facilities by giving recent website updates to users. Thereby there is no need to visit the original website anymore to learn the updates as RSS provides summary of the website in a time scheduled basis. Other important RSS facilities could be easily noticed when RSS is compared with e-mail application. Whatever may be said, nowadays most people would agree that e-mail is not a secure web tool because of spam and virus attacks. Late e-mail delivery and e-mail delivery to wrong recipient are other e-mail issues. Nevertheless one-third of e-mails tend to be blocked by spam filters. Therefore user may not be aware of the latest news of a newsletter, company discount etc. Seen from this aspect RSS is much powerful, safe and regular tool for web feeding operations.

Here is a video from youtube about RSS

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