Really Simple Syndication
Really Simple Syndication is nothing but a set of web feed formats that deliver updated information in standardized formats. They typically comprise complete text or summaries, metadata, and publishing information; this info could be anything from web content and blogs to audio/video files, photos,features, or even news headlines.
Really Simple Syndication feeds offer numerous benefits to publishers and readers.
Benefits for Publishers include enabling automatic syndication of their listings to all subscribers. With more websites understanding the reach and popularity of RSS feeds, an increasing number of sites are offering them now.
Benefits to readers include being able to stay current by getting the newest content from their preferred websites, without visiting each site; this saves them tremendous time and effort. It also eliminates the need to subscribe to umpteen newsletters from various sites. Moreover, they can aggregate feeds from several sites into one place.
RSS feeds are made readably by the feed reader or RSS reader aggregator software. This can be mobile-based, desktop-based, or web-based. Users subscribe to the feeds by clicking RSS feed icons in web browsers, or entering the URL of the feed into a web browser to initiate a subscription.
The software checks the subscribed feeds, and whenever it finds any new listings, it downloads them, providing an interface so that the user can read them.