A friend recently asked me the question in the title. “What is RSS?” along with “How does it work, and how do I use it?”
As a result, I’m writing this post for people who don’t know what RSS is. I’ll try my best to keep this post as simple and as non-technical as possible, including diagrams where I can. I hope that after reading this article, you will learn what RSS is, what it does and how to use it. Let’s get started!
This entry is specially for Abhi, and for others who do not know what a feed means and how it can be used. In the simplest terms, it is only used to get updates. What this means? Let’s say you love a particular web site and want to read what latest stuff has been published (only if the platform used supports feeds). A feed will allow you to have these latest contents directly without going to the URL. That means, you can have a common pool where you have all the updates of your favourite sites to “feed” on. The feeds can be in two formats Atom and RSS… Continue Reading »