What Is RSS and How Does It Benefit You?

RSS is short for "Really Simple Syndication". It sounds like a mouthful but it is just a label.

What RSS is really about...

Getting news feeds and updates on any topics that interest you fast and easy. You do not have to check or be on the lookout on what’s coming.

It delivers the headline, short summary and a link back to the full text every time an RSS news feed is updated.

How does it benefit you?

• If you have been worried about giving your name and email address to subscribe to any newsletter, the RSS feed has come to your rescue.

  Subscribing to RSS feed does not require you to do so. No more e-mails and no spams too. Your privacy is assured.

• You will get updates automatically on the blogs that you have chosen to subscribe.
• For those who have got used to bookmaking pages, this is no longer necessary.
• If you are a content owner or publisher, you are able to distribute your contents without being sent to the junk folder.

How do you subscribe?

Download free RSS Reader. This is a piece of software that reads the "RSS feeds" from the largest news organizations like BBC, CNN and Yahoo! right down to small content owners.

For Window Users
http://www.rssreader.com/

For Mac Users
http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/

Once you're set up,

Right-click (control-click for Mac users) on any orange RSS button on a site, blog or news source that interests you. Start by right clicking on the orange button below. Then...

Select Copy Shortcut ("Copy Link to Clipboard" for Mac), and paste that URL into your RSS Reader.

Can you unsubscribe?

Of course. Just delete the feed.