Shri Ram Murti Smarak College of Engineering and

Technology,Bareilly Report on RSS(Really Simple Syndication)

Submitted by:

Nimit Johri

(nimitjohri@gmail.com)

RSS

Problems with e-mail

• SPAM - messages are often deleted or are filtered because of cluttered

mailboxes

• Viruses – more and more legitimate messages are not reaching their destination

due to the proliferation of viruses.

XML

.xml

.rss

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><rss version="2.0">

<channel>

<title>RSS Title</title>

<description>This is an example of an RSS feed</description>

<link>http://www.example.com/main.html</link>

<lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:01:00 +0000 </lastBuildDate>

<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:20:00 +0000</pubDate>

<ttl>1800</ttl>

<item>

<title>Example entry</title>

<description>Here is some text containing an interesting description.</description>

<link>http://www.example.com/blog/post/1</link>

<guid isPermaLink="true">7bd204c6-1655-4c27-aeee-53f933c5395f</guid>

<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:20:00 +0000</pubDate>

</item>

</channel>

</rss>

Popular RSS Readers NewzCrawler

FeedDemon Omega Reader NewsGator Awasu Blog Navigator SharpReader

Popular Sources of RSSCommercial Sources

(CNN, NBC)Web SitesBlogs

Modules of RSSMedia RSS (MRSS) Module

OpenSearch RSS Module

Media RSS (MRSS)

MRSS is an RSS extension used for media files such as audio, video, image file

It was designed by Yahoo! In 2004 and added several enhancements to RSS such as thumbnails

OpenSearch RSS OpenSearch is a collection of technologies that

allow publishing of search results in a format suitable for syndication

OpenSearch RSS is a format for providing open search results

In browsers the default search engine can be changed to RSS to find RSS feeds

Pros of RSSSaves TimeArticles from multiple sourcesEasily add/remove subscriptionsRSS maintains privacy and

anonymityElectronic format allows easy

sharingSpam Free

Cons of RSSNot widely adopted (yet)Content can easily be copiedHas to be connected to a network

RSS feeds are a bandwidth waster

BroadCatchingSome Bittorent clients support RSS

RSS feeds which provide links to .torrent files allow users to subscribe and automatically download content as soon as it is published.

Websites Using RSS CNN New York Times BBC News NASA Yahoo! National Geographic Adobe Picasa

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