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Thursday, October 26, 2006

Just added a Feed Button to my Blog


Joined the 'blog' space in May '06, was in and out posting articles. I did not know head and tail of RSS feeds....still learning though.


But the Good News is, I just added a 'Feed' Button to my blog :)


Thanks to Feedburner

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An aggregator or news aggregator or feed reader is Client Software that uses a web feed to retrieve syndicated web content such as weblogs, podcasts, vlogs, and mainstream mass media websites, or in the case of a search aggregator, a customized set of search results.

Functions

Aggregators reduce the time and effort needed to regularly check websites for updates, creating a unique information space or "personal newspaper." Once subscribed to a feed, an aggregator is able to check for new content at user-determined intervals and retrieve the update. The content is sometimes described as being "pulled" to the subscriber, as opposed to "pushed" with email or IM. Unlike recipients of some "pushed" information, the aggregator user can easily unsubscribe from a feed.

Aggregator features are being built into portal sites such as My Yahoo! and Google; modern web browsers; e-mail programs like Mozilla Thunderbird; Apple's iTunes, which serves as a podcast aggregator and other applications. Devices such as mobile phones and Tivo video recorders (already aggregating television programs) also incorporate XML aggregators.

The aggregator provides a consolidated view of the content in a single browser display or desktop application. Such applications are also referred to as RSS readers, feed readers, feed aggregators, news readers or search aggregators.

The syndicated content an aggregator will retrieve and interpret is usually supplied in the form of RSS or other XML-formatted data, such as RDF/XML or Atom.

For more on Aggregator / feeds --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format)

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