What are RSS feeds? Are they useful?

Posted by Palahubog | Tech Trends | Thursday 24 December 2009 3:21 am

What are RSS feeds?

RSS feeds are the updates of the website that you subscribe to. For example you subscribed to onemanga.com, you won’t have to go to onemanga every time just to check for updates. You can just go to your RSS feed to read all of the updates that came from the sites that you subscribed to. And if you did subscribe to onemanga’s RSS feed, you will receive their RSS feed right away as soon as they have updates on the site or a new manga posted. This saves you timeĀ  and resources.

What is a RSS feed reader?

It is a tool that allows you to read the feeds that are delivered to you from the websites that you subscribed to. This tool allows you to read various updates from selected websites of your choice. It works like google mail or yahoo mail where you read emails, but in the RSS feed reader, you read RSS feeds.

Why are RSS feed very useful?

It saves you lots of time of having to go to a website just to check for updates. If you subscribe to an RSS feed of a website, everytime that website updates, you will be notified through your RSS feed reader. Not only will you be notified, you will be able to read the updates(which are in the form of feeds).

Below is a video from google with a very simple explanation of how RSS feeds and RSS feed reader work. This is about their RSS reader, the google reader, which is what I am using right now as my RSS feed reader.

RSS feeds makes bookmarking websites look oldschool. Back in the days, when if we like a website and want to visit it some other time to check for updates we bookmark it.

Today, most websites offer RSS feeds. Especially blogs like palahubog.com offer RSS feeds. This makes it easier for readers to read and get updates from the sites that they like.

Several websites design their RSS feeds to look attractive. RSS feeds today come in many designs and forms. Below are pictures of how they may look like.

Different RSS looks

If you like to track or get the latest feeds/updates from a specific website, you can just look for buttons that may look like any of these buttons. Just click them and subscribe to the feeds.

If you like palahubog.com and would want to know our latest post, you can read them from your RSS feeds reader. You have to subscribe to our RSS feed to getĀ  our latest feeds. You will find our subscribe button as shown in the picture below.

Palahubog's RSS subscribe button

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