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What Are RSS Feeds?

Author: Sean Felker

RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication." It’s a format that
web sites and blogs can use to send updated headlines to you via
services like My Yahoo!. My Yahoo! gathers the content you
select from a variety of sources and displays it for you in one

convenient location. Syndication means you don't have to visit
each site individually to see what's new -- you simply scan
headlines or brief article summaries and click to read the full
text. That’s the "really simple" part. And it’s "really simple"
for publishers to make their content accessible this way too.

RSS is an easy way for you to keep updated automatically on
websites you like. Instead of you having to go to websites to
see if they've written a new article or feature, you can use RSS
(which stands for Really Simple Syndication) to get them to tell
you every time they have something new.

Different News Readers work on different operating systems, so
you will need to take this into account when you make your
choice. The easiest way to have your RSS feeds sent to you is to
open a my Yahoo or a my MSN account . Then all you have to do is
add the content you want delivered to you.

There are a large number of different News Readers available.

NEWS READERS

Windows

Awasu -http://www.awasu.com/

FeedDemon - http://www.feeddemon.com/feeddemon/index.asp

FeedReader - http://www.feedreader.com/

Freeware application for Windows.

Newz Crawler -http://www.newzcrawler.com/

Mac OS X

Bloglines- http://www.bloglines.com/ A web-based personal news
aggregator that can be used in place of a desktop client.
blogbot - http://www.blogbot.com/
NewsFire - http://www.newsfirerss.com/

Macintosh RSS reader. OS 10.3 required.
NetNewsWire- http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/

Web and Other News Readers
GOOGLE- http://www.blogger.com/start
My Yahoo- http://my.yahoo.com
News Feed - http://www.BennetteBurks.com/NewsFeed

A Blog compiles several news sources (RSS) into one
easy-to-read web site. There's even a search engine just for RSS
feeds, called Feedster.com, that currently returns over
4,645,164 feeds indexed and fully searchable.

About the author:
Sean Felker is the publisher of the very successful and popular
Work at Home and Making Money on the Internet blog:
http://making-money-online.blogspot.com/

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