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fhiremark
Sep 14th 2005, 4:15 am
Hello, programming buffs ;) I read alot of blogs and on the bottom there's always this RSS sign, what does it mean? what does an RSS do? Please advice if you can.
Nintendo
Sep 14th 2005, 4:27 am
Google iz my friend! (http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=define%3Arss) Then there's my buddy Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_%28file_format%29). :D

Here's an example. (http://www.news-rant.com/?feed=rss2)
heapseo
Sep 14th 2005, 4:38 am
The most basic way I can explain it is an XML file containing info from a site (like news from cnn for example). People then link to these files on their own sites using RSS readers and it displays the info contained in the file.

Basically a way of having constantly fresh info on your site, from other sites.

Oh, and it supposedly stands for really simple syndicate

Feel free to add to that explanation anyone, I am quite new to it myself