Internet traffic growth rate is unexpected; people like to browse variety of things which includes technology updates, news, articles, tutorials, movies reviews, weather updates and others. Remembering each domain name, visiting each website specifically needs amount of efforts and time

What is RSS?

To cater this problem and provide ease to readers on internet the format with the name RSS (Rich Site Summary) is introduce. RSS use XML as the programming language, as XML is known for data transport language on networks and support different platforms. RSS is the format use by the webmaster to syndicate their contents, mostly site have the feature of RSS on their site readers can pick the feeds URL and get the contents without browsing.

How to read RSS?

As discussed in the above section about RSS feeds and its URL but now you must have the question about reading the contents. Once source of the feeds is known, there are multiple application known as RSS feeds readers or news aggregators to display the contents of website on readable form. The contents extracted from site contain XML tags and other metadata, it becomes very difficult of normal user who can’t understand XML or unfamiliar to IT to read the contents. The RSS feeds help to retrieve the contents using RSS feeds address and display right on user interface of application.

RSS readers and Aggregators

Following are some of the famous desktop and web based RSS feeds readers for reading the contents.
-Amphetadesk (Windows, Linux, Mac)
-FeedReader (Windows),
-NewsGator (Windows - integrates with Outlook).
-There are also a number of web-based feed readers available.
-My Yahoo
-Bloglines,
-Google Reader

Advantages RSS Feeds

Following are the advantages RSS feeds from user perspective.
-Save surfing time
-User can subscribes to the feeds of specific websites
-It is spam free
-Unlike unsubscribing like groups, user needs to unsubscribe if he or she not want to any updates regarding to specific site. In RSS user can easily delete the feeds source from aggregator.
-It can be used as marketing and advertising tool.