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What is RSS?
RSS is a method for delivering Internet content to subscribers in a program called a reader (like Google reader).
RSS is an acronym, but there is disagreement as to exactly what it stands for. Some sources say it stands for Really Simple Syndication. Others say it stands for Rich Site Summary.
RSS allows subscribers to monitor a large number of websites, blogs and news sources easily by opening them all in a single program. When opened, an RSS reader will show a user a list of new content at sites the user has subscribed to. The alternative, visiting dozens (or hundreds) of indiviual sites regularly to determine whether there is any new content, would be very time consuming.
The availability of RSS at a blog or website is usually signalled with the orange and white RSS image shows above.
Individual bloggers can make RSS available easily and for free with services like Feedburner.
Weblinks for RSS
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html
http://rss.softwaregarden.com/aboutrss.html
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RSS (most commonly translated as "Really Simple Syndication") is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format. An RSS document (which is called a "feed", "web feed",
RSS formats are specified using XML, a generic specification for the creation of data formats. Although RSS formats have evolved since March 1999, the RSS icon ("16px") first gained widespread use between 2005 and 2006.
History
The RSS formats were preceded by several attempts at web syndication that did not achieve widespread popularity. The basic idea of restructuring information about websites goes back to as early as 1995, when Ramanathan V. Guha and others in Apple Computer's Advanced Technology Group developed the Meta Content Framework. For a more detailed discussion of these early developments, see the history of web syndication technology.
RDF Site Summary, the first version of RSS, was created by Guha at Netscape in March 1999 for use on the My.Netscape.Com portal. This version became known as RSS 0.9. In July 1999, Dan Libby of Netscape produced a new version, RSS 0.91, which simplified the format by removing RDF elements and incorporating elements from Dave Winer's scriptingNews syndication format. Libby also renamed RSS "Rich Site Summary" and outlined further development of the format in a "futures document".
This would be Netscape's last participation in RSS development for eight years. As RSS was being embraced by web publishers who wanted their feeds to be used on My.Netscape.Com and other early RSS portals, Netscape dropped RSS support from My.Netscape.Com in April 2001 during new owner AOL's restructuring of the company, also removing documentation and tools that supported the format.
Two entities emerged to fill the void, with neither Netscape's help nor approval: The RSS-DEV Working Group and Winer, whose UserLand Software had published some of the first publishing tools outside of Netscape that could read and write RSS.
Winer published a modified version of the RSS 0.91 specification on the UserLand website, covering how it was being used in his company's products, and claimed copyright to the document. A few months later, UserLand filed a U.S. trademark registration for RSS, but failed to respond to a USPTO trademark examiner's request and the request was rejected in December 2001.
The RSS-DEV Working Group, a project whose members included Guha and representatives of O'Reilly Media and Moreover, produced RSS 1.0 in December 2000. This new version, which reclaimed the name RDF Site Summary from RSS 0.9, reintroduced support for RDF and added XML namespaces support, adopting elements from standard metadata vocabularies such as Dublin Core.
