All you need to know about RSS
What does RSS mean?RSS may mean three different things.
The original RSS (RDF Site Summary RSS 0.
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After a couple of months, they produced a simpler and easier-to-use version called Rich Site Summary or RSS 0.
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But they later lost interest, leaving it without an owner.
As more and more users were using RSS, Winer made an adapted version of RSS 0.
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Later in 2005, Microsoft developed Really Simple Syndication in relation to its Simple Sharing Extensions.
What is RSS?RSS is a XML file format for syndicating content and news in the web.
It is usually used by websites that constantly need to update their content regularly such as news websites (CNN, BBC and Reuters) and weblogs.
Since it essentially gives ones webpage more traffic, it is now more widely used in marketing, web publications and virus reports.
Today, large and small websites alike are usually RSS-enabled.
For example, youre an avid fan of baseball and you want to share something recent about one of the players.
Other than content, you can also attach multimedia files, like videos or pictures.
By using RSS feeds, other Internet users subscribed to RSS-enabled sites can read your headline
