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Bestia Vinco


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On MissA's site I see a link that says "Subscribe to RSS feed"

Can anyone explane what an RSS feed is and what happens if I subscribe to it?

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To be the ultimate nerd that I am, I will use my powers over the internet to use as little effort as possible to explain what an RSS feed is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rss

I'll also steal from another source if that is too technical. I don't want to be a TOTAL jerk.

"In the typical scenario of using web feeds, a content provider publishes a feed link on their site which end users can register with an aggregator program (also called a feed reader or a news reader) running on their own machines; doing this is usually as simple as dragging the link from the web browser to the aggregator. When instructed, the aggregator asks all the servers in its feed list if they have new content; if so, the aggregator either makes a note of the new content or downloads it. Aggregators can be scheduled to check for new content periodically. Web feeds are an example of pull technology, although they may appear to push content to the user."




-- Edited by w1ntermute at 23:31, 2008-07-26

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*Cries* I didn't even understand the less complicated version, Sir!

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Its easier to understand by example...

http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/news/rssreader.html is for OSX

and this is for Windows:

http://www.feedreader.com/

There are of course 1000s of variations, and I don't care for RSS anyway so I don't know what the best one is.

No, those don't cost anything.

Its definitely not something you NEED, kitty... but its entertaining if you really want to be up to date on this site's activity without having to go to the webpage every hour ;p


-- Edited by w1ntermute at 23:48, 2008-07-26

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Really simply put: It tells you about any changes to the website/blog/user you sign up to, with time and a link to what has been changed, in list form!

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google reader is a good RSS-feed reader. I use it all the time.
You subscribe to a RSS feed and see all the new entrys and news.

RSS is a web page that is easily readable by computer programs and other websites. You could call it a modern news-ticker :)

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