Rss Feed Available !, What is RSS ? Options

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Many will ask

What is RSS ?

RSS : Acronym for RDF Site Summary where RDF stands for Resource Description Framework

In simple English : News Feeds, RealTime content

CODE

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html

RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites like Wired, news-oriented community sites like Slashdot, and personal weblogs. But it's not just for news. Pretty much anything that can be broken down into discrete items can be syndicated via RSS: the "recent changes" page of a wiki, a changelog of CVS checkins, even the revision history of a book. Once information about each item is in RSS format, an RSS-aware program can check the feed for changes and react to the changes in an appropriate way.

RSS-aware programs called news aggregators are popular in the weblogging community. Many weblogs make content available in RSS. A news aggregator can help you keep up with all your favorite weblogs by checking their RSS feeds and displaying new items from each of them.

From Saturday July 9th , 2005 we have the following BLOG RSS feed to use with an RSS-enabled browser ( like Firefox ) or another RSS client of your choice :

CODE

http://www.tucows.com/downloads/Windows/Internet/RSSWebBlogTools/

You could also try one messenger like Trillian which supports ICQ, MSN, AOL, IRC, Yahoo Messenger in one neat package and it also uses RSS plugins to show you Real Time news when online !