Know RSS

RSS a word you might have heard many a times but the exact working and how it functions have been a mystery for the any one short of required technical skills, here I shall explain about RSS in plain English language. RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication”.RSS is used as many people are interested in a number of websites whose content changes on an no particular frequency. Such websites are like news sites, community organization information pages, product information pages, medical websites, and weblogs. Repeatedly checking each website to see if there is any new content can be very tedious and Email notification of changes in websites is a problem too as notifications from multiple websites they are usually disorganized and can get overwhelming, and are often mistaken for spam by most of standard mail box. This is how RSS helps.The Video below fully explains how RSS can be works and can be used in plain English.
All important data you want people to see is put as notifications, this list of notifications is called an “RSS Feed”. People who are interested in finding out the latest headlines or changes can check this list for the latest information. Computer programs called “RSS aggregators” are used that automatically access the RSS feeds of websites you want on your behalf and organize the results for you. (RSS feeds and aggregators are also sometimes called “RSS Channels” and “RSS Readers”.)
Now a days RSS features are embedded with Blogger.com and wordpress.com , also to read RSS theer are many services now available like Newsgator, Google Reader etc one can also use the Social Bookmark feature present in some browsers like Mozilla Firefox. As mentioned above, the next Windows will have RSS embedded into its operating system which currently in Beta mode of testing and due to released by fall of 2011 as per the official blog of Steve Ballmer.