How is RSS done? Benefits and Reasons for using RSS – An RSS document called "feed", "web feed", or "channel“ includes full or summarized text, and metadata, like publishing date and author's name. – Filename extension .rss, .xml – Easily stay informed – Save time no need to visit site individually – Ensure your privacy no subscription for newsletter – Eg. Yahoo news, Google reader, Bloglines etc.

1. RSS (Rich Site Summary);
Really Simple Syndication Way to keep Updated
Renzil D’cruz
http://RenzilDe.com
http://about.me/renzilde
http://linkedin.com/in/renzilde

2. Rich Site Summary
• What is RSS?
RSS originally RDF Site Summary, is a format for delivering regularly changing web
content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their
content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it.
• How is RSS done? Benefits and Reasons for using RSS
– An RSS document called "feed", "web feed", or "channel“ includes full or
summarized text, and metadata, like publishing date and author's name.
– Filename extension .rss, .xml
– Easily stay informed
– Save time no need to visit site individually
– Ensure your privacy no subscription for newsletter
– Eg. Yahoo news, Google reader, Bloglines etc.

3. History
• In 1995, when Ramanathan V. Guha and others in Apple Computer's
Advanced Technology Group developed the Meta Content Framework.
• March 1999, first version of RSS was created by Dan Libby and Ramanathan
V. Guha at Netscape.( RSS 0.9)
• In December 2000, RSS-DEV Working Group and Dave Winer released RSS
0.92 spark podcasting
• In September 2002, Winer released a major new version of the format, RSS
2.0
• In September 2004, Stephen Horlander created the now ubiquitous RSS icon
for Mozilla Firefox browser.
• In December 2005, the Microsoft Internet Explorer
• In February 2006, Opera Software

4. Format
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel><title>rss title</title>
<description>this is an rss eed</description>
<link>http://www.renzil.de/blog</link>
<lastbuilddate>mon, 16 dec 2014 00:01:00 +0000 </lastbuilddate>
<pubdate>mon, 16 dec 2014 16:20:00 +0000 </pubdate>
<ttl>1800</ttl>
<item><guid>unique string per item</guid></item>
</channel>
</rss>

5. How RSS works?

6. How to grab the RSS feeds?
• http://feedburner.google.com
• Amphetadesk (Windows, Linux, Mac)
• FeedReader (Windows),
• NewsGator (Windows - integrates with Outlook).

7. RSS 2.0
Atom 1.0
author
author*
category
category
channel
feed
copyright
rights
description
subtitle
description*
summary and/or content
generator
generator
guid
id*
image
logo
item
entry
lastBuildDate (in channel)
updated*
link*
link*
managingEditor
author or contributor
pubDate
published (subelement of entry)
title*
title*
ttl
-

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