What Really RSS Means

Really simple syndication is actually web feeds published by your blogs, news sites, articles site or any other sites which has got daily updates need to be acknowledged to the user. Once the user subscribes to these RSS feeds from your site, they can just select a menu item in the browser and could view any latest change happend to that site. This is like subscribing to a site's latest edition to know the recent articles.

Firefox browser by default has got RSS feed for bbc news site. This will display all the latest news for the day which makes it easier for internet users who use it in office on a daily basis to know the news. It gets updated every hour. This can actually be configured in the servers where you publish the articles.

How can it bring you more business

If you have got RSS subscription option in your site compared to the competitive site and you are an ecommerce site owner, this will let your cusomter know about any new products come into market and would be first bought from there. So that means if your business deals with any kind of daily updates, you can help your customers get to know about it very fast and easily through their browsers . Rather than through email subscription which is bit harder than direct view from browser.

RSS files are actually XML formatted plain text, and they are relatively easily read by automated processes and by us in the same way. Such a file could be placed on any possible communication protocol such as http or ftp for file retrieval, from the server you host your application , and reading software succh as browser like firefox, IE etc would use the information to present a very nice display to the end user.

There is a facebook RSS Feed Reader application . This software allows the user to add rss feeds to your profile page. Also anyone can see which rss feeds the friends have subscribed to . Users can easily add a blog feed by typing in the rss feed location. There is also a search feature coming into picture to help it more useful. This application looks to get a lot pf popularity in the public . Facebook is letting public to have their ideas shared to a big mass.

Nowadays lots of web application and mobile applications are trying to make use of this feature.