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- Really Simple Syndication (RSS)search for term
- Really Simple Syndication, otherwise known as a newsfeed, is a format for the delivery of information online. In RSS, the most recent information appears at the top of the page, and each time the page is refreshed, all the new content that has emerged since the last visit appears at the top of the page. It is an automatically updating resource. RSS is a Web standard for the delivery of information, as it privileges what is most current, allowing the user to stay on top of the news. Many types of information can emerge in a newsfeed, from news stories, to videos, blog entries, and images. Each piece of information typically contains a title, a small blurb describing it to attract the viewer, and a link to which the reader may travel to learn more if interested. RSS appears on several kinds of sites. Each Facebook user has a newsfeed which informs them of their friends' updates, as well as blogs and headline news sites like Google News. The greatest advantage to the RSS format is that it saves time. The user is not forced to travel from site to site in order to learn about a general topic of interest. Instead, the newsfeed aggregates these common sites into a single location.
