What is What is RSSRSS

Chanaka Wickramasinghe

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What is What is RSSRSS

ContentsContents What is What is RSSRSS How does How does RSSRSS work… work… RSSRSS Readers (Readers (RSSRSS aggregates)aggregates) RSSRSS aggregator in action aggregator in action How do we find out a website has an How do we find out a website has an RSSRSS feeds feeds

What is What is RSSRSS RSSRSS stands for “Really simple stands for “Really simple syndication”.syndication”.

It is a way to easily distribute ,It is a way to easily distribute ,

A list of headlines.A list of headlines. Update notices.Update notices.

Results are presented to you Results are presented to you well organized. well organized.

How does How does RSSRSS work…… work……

Server Side Client Side (User side)

Web site author maintain list of notifications.

Use Software to create RSS feeds.

(RSS feeds)

Use special computer programme to read the RSS feeds.

This special programme called “RSS aggregators”

(RSS Readers)

How does How does RSSRSS work work

Site 1 with RSS feeds

Site 2 with RSS feeds

Site 3 with RSS feeds

No. of feeds 10 No. of feeds 15 No. of feeds 20

Use RSS Reader (RSS aggregate )

User

RSSRSS Readers (Readers (RSSRSS aggregates)aggregates)

Google ReaderGoogle Reader

My YahooMy Yahoo

RSSRSS aggregator in action aggregator in actionAdd feeds Url to Reader

Number of Unread Headlines

All Unread Headlines

How do we find out a website How do we find out a website has an has an RSSRSS feeds feeds

Web page displaying an orange button Web page displaying an orange button

with the letters “with the letters “XMLXML” or “” or “RSSRSS””