RSS+&+Feed+Readers

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 * FEED READER-**A news aggregator/[|feed reader]is a software application or remotely hosted service that collects syndicated content from disparate sources and provides a single consolidated view. These applications can also be commonly referred to as a feed reader, feed aggregator or simply just an aggregator.
 * AGGREGATOR-**A service that gathers information published by different sources and organises it together under a common search interface. The aggregator may also license access to a collection of journals from many different publishers. Every time your subscription gets checked or edite, the [|aggregator] will tell you all the new information that was changed. The information that was sent to you by the aggregator is called "feed". You can subscribe to these feeds too.
 * RADIO USERLAND**-[|Radio UserLand] is a publishing weblog tool with cool features. Every copy of this can have an unlimited amount of categories and a separate weblog with RSS feeds. A very popular weblog object in the world, Radio UserLand helps you to accomplish more things in less time.

[|**][|Web Feeds or Aggregators**]- inform you when a site is updated.
 * [|RSS]** -is a group of web feeds that is used to update frequently viewed spaces like blogs, and news pieces. **RSS** stands for **R**eally **S**imple **S**yndication.

=Examples:= -RSS web sites include sites like [|Pageflakes], [|myFeedz] uses an innovative way to show you personalized news based on your reading habits so you can get updates on your favorite things,and [|dapper] is a service which makes it easy to access and distribute content from any website. -The target audience is for any age, but it's mainly used by young adults. RSS is also being used to [|Advertise] because the RSS feed is easily changeable for different viewers. On the advertise page you can see the great opportunities available for advertising with RSS. -Other examples could be the New York times, this because you could subscribe to this site to get updates about when they have made changes or updates to their site. You can have updates of one section, or the whole news paper. [|Feed Burner], is an example of how you can access your most commonly used sites fast and sufficiently.

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 * REAL LIFE EXAMPLE:** Your hungry in the morning, so you grab the bread out of the bread drawer, which is like taking the RSS off a site. Next you pop it in the toaster, this is like putting it in a feed reader or aggregator of your choice. Seconds later (Or minutes depending on how fast the news changes) it



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Web 2.0 vs. Web 1.0:
RSS is a [|Web 2.0] service. Web 2.0 allows you to make your own sites. Where as Web 1.0 only allows you to read sites instead of creating them. Web 2.0 is wireless and Web 1.0 is about wires. 2.0 has blogs where you can commment sites and 1.0 has home pages. Web 1.0 uses portals and Web 2.0 uses RSS. RSS is one of the [|key] building blocks for Web 2.0.

What RSS does:
The [|use] of RSS is to find jobs, homes, flights, and about worldly news. Many things can be found when using RSS. Instead of having to visit 14 different places to get your weather, sports, favorite photos, latest gossip, or most recent headlines, you just go to one screen and see it arranged with RSS.

OPINION:

 * I think that the RSS is a big part of Web 2.0 because it helps you do a lot of the things that you couldn't do when we just had Web 1.0. Now we can read and write e-mails.
 * My opinion, RSS seems like it is for people who are really interested in the news and what's happening around them.
 * RSS is really helpful when you are trying to find current information.
 * RSS is great for the world! You can really organize your life. If you are a news thirsty person this is for y-o-U!
 * My opinion of this is that its really cool, its very fast and efficient, it could save you a lot of time and searching for something if you get to just put it into the feed reader and its gets you right where you want to go. I think that is nice that they will notify you when an update comes. I think it is really interesting that you could have the whole newspaper let you know when its updated, or you can have your favorite sections. You can do this for many other things, not only for the news paper. I think RSS is AMAZING!

What RSS can do better:
RSS will always have room for improvement. I think they are taking a big step by using RSS for advertising but they could also use RSS to simplify many other aspects of the internet into broad categories all the way down to specifics.