RSS Technology and The New Information Age

Gone are the days when you needed to pick up a newspaper to get your news, or wait for the 6 o’clock news to find out what’s happening in your town or around the world. Now more than ever, up-to-the-minute technology is fusing into our lives, enabling us to not only choose when to read out news, but what news to read and where to read them.

Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary feeds, more commonly knows as RSS feeds, is in great part, the source of that fusion. An application initially created for Netscape back in 1999, it has evolved into one of the most readily available methods of obtaining information quickly and easily.

In simplest terms, RSS feeds give the user a way to go to their favorite websites, subscribe to their content, and access their information as it is updated, setting it up in a simple, readable and accessible format, either on their desktop or on their browser. Some of us can’t honestly remember web browsing without the ability to subscribe to RSS feeds, and it’s hard to imagine it being taken away.The RSS feed system, initially created as a tiny, seemingly insignificant companion piece to a popular browser, is now an indispensible tool in our everyday Internet life.

One thing that’s become increasingly evident is the role that RSS feeds — more specifically, online aggregated news feeds — have played in the growth of technology and, more specifically, information exchange. The use of RSS feeds grows as the demand for newspapers as a whole dwindles, and it makes sense; after all, why get dated information from a newspaper when you can get updates every minute or so on your computer?

Which is why sites like Techmeme and News Tracker are becoming more and more popular. These automated sites are linked to RSS feeds all over the Internet. When the feeds are updated, so is the page — it’s as simple as that, yet it is so much more vital than what its simplicity implies. For those of us that are subscribed to numerous feeds, it becomes hard to go through all of our updates and read.

RSS aggregated news sources eliminate the work of having to go through all of your live bookmarks and look for breaking news; these sites already have those feeds condensed for you, in an accessible, easy to use website. The difference between these sites and social bookmarking sites such as del.ic.iou.s is that RSS aggregated sites are automated, so they give you up-to-the-minute information, when you need it. The automation factor, in conjunction to the simplicity and accesibility found in these RSS aggregated news source websites is what makes them such an amazing new addition to the world of web surfing.

From its humble beginnings as just another browser application, RSS feeds have evolved by leaps and bounds, into the future of information exchange worldwide.

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Desktop RSS Feeds vs. Online RSS

RSS, or Really Simple Syndication is a widget or functionality that allows websites to distribute content other than directly from their site. RSS capability is everywhere and almost every news site, website and blogging site enables creation of an RSS feed. There are two different types of RSS feeds; Online RSS and Desktop RSS. With Online RSS you must be online in order to get the feeds from the website. The information from online feeds is stored online so you are able to access it from any computer. Desktop RSS however, sends feeds directly to your hard drive so you do not have to have an online connection to get them.

Desktop RSS widgets are great because even if you somehow lose your internet connection you will still have your RSS information coming in. With the Online RSS you must be online and on a certain site to get the information (for instance you must be on the websites which you placed the RSS feeds.) With the desktop RSS feed reader functionality you can keep up with your favorite news and blogs while you are working on another website or preparing a word document or anything else that takes you away from the standard online reader. Desktop RS feed readers normally have support for multiple RSS feeds and can even access password protected sites. Desktop RSS feed readers allow all of your favorite information to be available to you whenever you want without having to be on a certain site to enjoy. For this reason, many are switching to desktop RSS feed readers. Readily available information is important to many people and sometimes getting online and to particular sites just isn’t practical. Why wait to get information that can be as close as your desktop? Get your online information without even being online. Now that’s convenient.

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