About Feed

What are feeds and how do I use them?

A feed is a regularly updated summary of web content, along with links to full versions of that content. When you subscribe to a given website's feed by using a feed reader, you'll receive a summary of new content from that website. Important: you must use a feed reader in order to subscribe to website feeds. When you click on an RSS or Atom feed link, your browser may display a page of unformatted gobbledygook.

What are RSS and Atom?
RSS and Atom are the two feed formats. Most feed readers support both formats. Right now, Google News supports Atom 0.3 and RSS 2.0.

How do I use Google News feeds?
To access Google News feeds, look for the RSS | Atom links on any Google News page. These links will generate a feed of current stories related to the page that you're looking at.

New in RSS

A better way to get news

We'd like to let you know about an open technology call RSS (Rich Site Summary) that we're employing to keep you up to date with new content on the site.

For those of you who are not familiar with RSS - it is a means by which publishers can alert their audience when new content is available. As an RSS subscriber, you can use a web based program (such as MyYahoo!) or a desktop program (such as Feedreader ) to efficiently view RSS feeds from your favorite publications in one place. Some publications offering RSS feeds include the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, IBM's online Press Room and just about every blog on the internet.

IBM offers RSS feeds

All of our press release categories have an RSS feed to which you can subscribe. You can also use our custom RSS feed tool to combine several categories into one feed. What does this do for you? Well, if you subscribe to the feed, you will be alerted whenever there is new material available. There is no clutter in your email inbox and there is no need to share any of your personal information to sign up. You read the articles only when you wish - and if you get interested in subscribing to RSS feeds from other publishers you will enjoy the efficiency that this open technology already delivers to many others who have a need to stay up to date with a wide variety of news sources.
Instructions

To get started you will need to either use a web based RSS feed reader or a desktop application. Since every application works differently, we can't supply directions for them all. However, we can point you to two free RSS feed readers we've liked using, MyYahoo! and Feedreader.

MyYahoo!

To get started with MyYahoo!, go to http://www.my.yahoo.com and initiate an account.

From the MyYahoo! start page, click "Add Content"

Click "Add RSS by URL"

Cut and paste the URL of the desired RSS feed (examples below) into the blank field and click "Add"

The feed will be verified, click "Add to MyYahoo!" to finish

Feedreader

To get started with Feedreader, download the free program from http://www.feedreader.com.

Click the "Add new feed" icon

Cut and paste the RSS feed into the blank filed and click "Next"

The feed will be verified, click "Finish"

More IBM RSS feeds are available at http://www.ibm.com/ibm/syndication/

Find your personal reader:
AmphetaDesk is a personal news aggregator that sits on your desktop.
(Mac/Win/Linux)
Feedreader is free software that reads and displays internet newsfeeds.
(Win)
Headline viewer is a desktop client for syndicated news in RSS and many other formats, with over 500 built-in news sources. (Win)
Hotsheet provides an RSS news retrieval program witten in Java 2.
(Win/Mac/Linux)
JavaRSS.com focuses on Java news, articles and blogs.
News is free lets you create your own customized news page with feeds from the sites your interested in. (Web)
Novobot is a smart headline viewer and news ticker that can also process almost any website. (Web)
Radio UserLand provides a full-strength news-reading application on your desktop. (Mac/Win)
rss2email reads RSS feeds and sends each new item to you as an e-mail.
SOAPClient.com RSS News reader is an aggregation of RSS content using SQLData XML Technologies. (Web)

RSS in Blogs

This video provide all basic information related to implementation and uses of RSS feed in blog.

What is RSS?

RSS is an acronym for Really Simple Syndication and Rich Site Summary. RSS is an XML-based format for content distribution. Webmasters create an RSS file containing headlines and descriptions of specific information. While the majority of RSS feeds currently contain news headlines or breaking information the long term uses of RSS are broad.

RSS is a defined standard based on XML with the specific purpose of delivering updates to web-based content. Using this standard, webmasters provide headlines and fresh content in a succinct manner. Meanwhile, consumers use RSS readers and news aggregators to collect and monitor their favorite feeds in one centralized program or location. Content viewed in the RSS reader or news aggregator is place known as an RSS feed.

RSS is becoming increasing popular. The reason is fairly simple. RSS is a free and easy way to promote a site and its content without the need to advertise or create complicated content sharing partnerships.