RSS has become a valuable technology for everything from casual
web users to webmasters. According to a recent Yahoo survey only
12% of internet users are aware of RSS and a mere 4% have
knowingly used RSS. RSS exists as a means to gather and display
information quickly and easily. By the end of this article, you
should know what RSS is and how to use it to make your life
easier. What exactly is this RSS thing? RSS stands for several
things, the most widely accepted being Really Simple
Syndication. RSS is often described as being a feed, which one
subscribes to. RSS feeds are frequently updated and distributed
in the XML format, allowing for custom tags. You have probably
seen small, often orange, RSS or XML icons on websites. These
icons link to that website's feed. We still haven't gotten to
what kind of content RSS feeds hold. It depends on whose feed
you are viewing, but RSS feeds often include the title of the
article and a small excerpt or even the whole article. Viewing
someone's feed is referred to as