What is RSS

You may wonder what this tiny orange button is for.

So I think it is better if I write an article about it and hopefully will be able to cast some light on the subject matter. We have many ways wherein you will be able to receive updates on TechnoConvergingZone. The major one that most of the readers use is the RSS feed. But what is RSS?

RSS Definition

RSS is a technology used by millions of blog and website users all over the world to keep track of their favorite website and blogs. Before, when you like a website, you simply had to bookmark websites in the browser and you return to that site manually on a regular basis to see what has been added.

But the problems encountered with bookmarking are that it tends to get complicated if you are trying to track many websites all at once. You will also miss some information when you forget to check the bookmarks that you made. You will always see the same information all over again on the website that don’t update frequently. And you as the web surfer have to do all the work.

RSS indeeds changed things. It is a technology that gives you a way of getting meaningful and useful and updated information sent to you for you to read in your own time. It can be a time saver for you and will help you get information faster and after the post has been published.

RSS simply stands for ‘Really Simple Syndication’. It can be considered as a news feed that you can subscribe to anytime. It is really like subscribing to a magazine delivered to you regularly. Anybody can really use the RSS even if you are not the most technical guy in the neighborhood. I myself am not that technical, but I find it very convenient to use the RSS.

RSS Reader

Now, if you want to read sites via RSS feeds you should get yourself an RSS feed reader. There are plenty in the web differing in the approaches and the features. The most simple that I know of and is free to use is the Google Reader. There are also other popular feed readers like Bloglines, MyAOL, MyYahoo, MyMSN, NetVibes, FeedDemon and NewsGator. The latter two costs money.

Many of these feed readers work somewhat like an email. If you subscribe to the feed, unread posts from the sites that you are tracking is marked as bold. As you click on the entries, the latest update is seen and you can read the entry right there at the feed reader. You can click through to go to the actual site or go to the next unread entry; the last entry will be marked as ‘read’.

Most feed readers have a very helpful help section in order for you to start reading through the subscriptions, or better yet you just simply subscribe to some feeds.

RSS feeds through Email

Others don’t want to use an RSS Reader. Email is the other option for you then. You may seem to find the above explanation a little too complicated, so other sites allow you to subscribe to their RSS feeds via email which is a more familiar means for others.

You can easily see the RSS button here at TechnoConvergingZone, somewhere at the right hand sidebar of the screen. Actually there are two buttons, one is subscription for an RSS Reader and the other is subscription for RSS via email. Don’t worry your email is kept private and confidential, should you decide to subscribe here in TechnoConvergingZone; it will not be used for any other purposes than to send these daily updates.

Hopefully this post answers the question of What is RSS!

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