What is RSS

Hi,
what is RSS?
I see a lot of pages that has a link with "XML" and it generates a xml file
with some content....
what is it for?
thanks,
BrunoIt stands for "Really Simple Syndication". Coined by Dave Winer, it has real
ly picked up recently. Its about opting into getting content delivered whene
ver updates are available. Somewhat like email lists but bit beyond. Look fo
r RSS and specs on google t
o find quite a bit.
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Girish Bharadwaj
http://msmvps.com/gbvb

> Hi,
> what is RSS?
> I see a lot of pages that has a link with "XML" and it generates a xml
> file with some content....
> what is it for?
> thanks,
> Bruno
Basically, it's a collection of items, usually news headlines. It's been a
great format to condense the news headlines of a site so that other sites
can pick them up (like when you want to display CNN news headlines on your
site if they supply the RSS feed).
Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
"Bruno Piovan" <type your email address here> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> what is RSS?
> I see a lot of pages that has a link with "XML" and it generates a xml
> file with some content....
> what is it for?
> thanks,
> Bruno
>
Bruno Piovan wrote:
> Hi,
> what is RSS?
> I see a lot of pages that has a link with "XML" and it generates a xml fil
e
> with some content....
> what is it for?
> thanks,
> Bruno
>
The latest version of Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 has a RSS reader built-in.
Cool.
http://www.mozilla.org/
Greg
Thanks for all the answers.
Bruno
"Bruno Piovan" <type your email address here> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> what is RSS?
> I see a lot of pages that has a link with "XML" and it generates a xml
> file with some content....
> what is it for?
> thanks,
> Bruno
>
hmmm I liked the idea of put news on the website...
do you know any news site that allows it?
thanks,
Bruno
"Mark Fitzpatrick" <markfitz@.fitzme.com> wrote in message
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> Basically, it's a collection of items, usually news headlines. It's been a
> great format to condense the news headlines of a site so that other sites
> can pick them up (like when you want to display CNN news headlines on your
> site if they supply the RSS feed).
> Hope this helps,
> Mark Fitzpatrick
> Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
> "Bruno Piovan" <type your email address here> wrote in message
> news:eP2kHPGnEHA.3712@.TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>