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RSS XML And Feed Readers Huh Help
ave you seen them yet? The each day and do your thing,
little orange graphics that right? Well, if those sites offer
say XML or RSS? Have you an RSS Feed (which they do - look
ever wondered what the heck they for the little orange RSS or XML
are? Yeah, me to. And, being as graphic) then you can have their
curious as a cat, I had to find content or articles sent directly
out! to your computer. No more going
through multiple websites, it's
It wasn't hard to get most of the all delivered to you in an RSS
info I needed. All I did was Reader right on your computer.
search for RSS at Google and a And oh, there are also web based
ton of resources came up. RSS readers as well, you just choose
stands for Really Simple the one you prefer.
Syndication. Hmmm...really
simple? Yeah, it really is pretty Now, what's so great about that?
simple and it makes keeping up Well, let's take a one of my
with news, sports, entertainment websites,
and business, well...really http://www.GiftBasketWholesaleSup
simple. ply.com, as an example. Let's say
you set up all your news sites,
Basically, what happens is, say newsletters and blogs so you can
you read the Wall Street Journal, read them in your RSS Reader and
CNN and ESPN everyday. You also then you find out that Gift
read a couple of business Basket Wholesale Supply has a
newsletters weekly or when they blog that's updated whenever new
get delivered to your email inbox items are posted to the site.
and you read your niece's blog AND...that blog has an RSS
(short for weblog [web-log]) that Feed...voila!, you add Gift
gets updated 'whenever'. Okay, so Basket Wholesale Supply's RSS
you go to each of the websites Feed to your RSS Reader and you
don't have to worry about links and reviews to all the
checking the site for new different readers (be careful,
merchandise ever again. Now, some are free, some are not).
you're notified AUTOMATICALLY by You've gotta go there and check
way of a posting to their blog it out, here are direct links to
that is delivered to your RSS both the pages mentioned.
Reader. Isn't that wonderful? How
many of your suppliers offer this How To Read RSS Feeds:
service? Well, if I were you, I'd http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-1008
find out because your life could 8_7-5143460.html?tag=nav
get a whole lot easier! And
what's so great about an RSS Feed RSS: Feel The Need For Feeds?
is you don't have to deal with Video (you'll have to wait a
any spam, you only get the second while the video
content you ASK for! Cool, huh? downloads):
http://www.cnet.com/av/video/flas
Okay, so now what are you h/rss_tutorial.html?tag=video
supposed to do? You want to start
reading your news and business And lastly, I want to tell you
reports in an RSS reader but you what I use to read my RSS Feeds.
don't know what to do or how to
get started. Well, I did the First, the desktop RSS Reader I
research...I found THE BEST use is called FeedReader. It's
resource for you to use to get very similar to an email program
started. It's CNET, a wonderful and even makes the same tah-dah
techie site that takes techie sound that Outlook Express makes
info and breaks it down for the for a new email when a feed is
rest of us. There's a page that updated. The best thing is...it's
explains RSS, and there's a great free, all you have to do is
video as well. You'll also find download and install it. Here's
the link: video mentioned above will tell
you how to get the feed URL,
http://www.feedreader.com remember, there's a link above to
CNET's video). It's that simple!
Second, I also like to use
MyYahoo. To use MyYahoo, you just Lastly, there is one other RSS
have to sign up for an account at Reader that I've heard great
Yahoo.com, it's free. Most people things about, it's called
already have one anyway. If you FeedDemon. CNet has it as one of
use Yahoo Mail or participate in it's top rated readers and I've
Yahoo Groups, you already have an talked with a few friends that
account. Just go to Yahoo.com, be say they couldn't live without
sure you're signed in and click it. I guess, it's worth looking
the MyYahoo button at the very at, huh? Here's the link:
top of the page.
http://www.feeddemon.com/
MyYahoo will let you customize
your page and pulls only the So, I hope now you're as curious
information you want to read. To as I was about RSS! Believe me,
add an RSS Feed, click on the Add it's the way you'll be handling
Content link, when you get to the all the internet content you read
next page click on the 'Add RSS on a regular basis, so go get
by URL' link that's right next to started now and get a jump on
the 'Find' button. On the your friends!
resulting page you can enter the
RSS Feed URL. (Don't worry, the
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