June 14th, 2007 eyedealab |
Web feeds provide web content or summaries of web content together with links to the full versions of the content, and other metadata. RSS, in particular, delivers this information as an XML file called an RSS feed, webfeed, RSS stream, or RSS channel. A program known as a feed reader or aggregator can check a list of feeds on behalf of a user and display any updated articles that it finds. It is common to find web feeds on major websites and many smaller ones.
RSS-aware programs are available for various operating systems. Client-side readers and aggregators are typically constructed as standalone programs or extensions to existing programs such as web browsers. Browsers such as Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 have integrated support for RSS feeds.
On Web pages, web feeds (RSS or Atom) are typically linked with the word “Subscribe”, an orange
rectangle 
, or with the letters 
or 
. Many news aggregators such as My Yahoo!
publish subscription buttons 
for use on Web pages to simplify the process of adding
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