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RSS stands for Real
Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0).
It is a conventional, rather widely accepted
way of publishing or exchanging information
on the Internet, which keeps the data's
meaning between applications.
RSS is a way for any resource
available on the Web to be qualified by
its metadata (information
that describes information). For instance,
an article is usually described by its
author, title, abstract, publishing date,
copyright, while an item available for
purchase on an on-line shopping site is
better represented by its description,
price, and availability.
Because this qualification
is independent from the object it qualifies,
RSS can represent information about anything
available on the Web, although it is current
and mainly used to publish articles on-line.
How to read a RSS Feed?
A RSS Feed is basically
a RSS-formatted file available on a web
site, ready to be retrieved by a tool acting
as a reader. This reader can be either
a standalone or web-based application:
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Web-based
readers: |
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We publish daily
our technology research articles through
our RSS feed:
 TEC
White Paper News Feed
A brief history of RSS
Netscape gave birth to RSS as Rich
Site Summary (RSS 0.90)
in 1999.
The World
Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standardized
it later in 2000 as RDF
Site Summary (RSS
1.0). Resource
Description Framework (RDF) was
the initial language for qualifying any
resource available on the Web by its
metadata.
Then in 2003, the Berkman
Center for Internet & Society at Harvard
Law School released Real Simple
Syndication (RSS 2.0), which
took its name from the specific application
and extension of the RDF Site Summary protocol
to the process of publishing on-line
content information, mainly, but not
restricted to, articles and discussion
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