RSS is a technology that is being used by millions of web users around the world to keep track of their favorite websites.

In the ‘old days’ of the web, in order to keep track of updates on a website you had to ‘bookmark’ websites in your browser and manually return to them on a regular basis to see what was added.

The problems with bookmarking

• You, as the web surfer had to do all the work.
• It can get complicated when you are trying to track many websites at once.
• You miss information when you forget to check your bookmarks.
• You end up seeing the same information over and over again on sites that don’t update very often.

RSS flips things around a little and is a technology that provides you with a method of getting relevant and up to date information sent to you for you to read in your own time. It saves you time and helps you obtain the information you want quickly after it was published.

RSS stands for ‘Really Simple Syndication’. Many people describe it as a ‘news feed’ that you subscribe to.

It’s like subscribing to a magazine that is delivered to you periodically but instead of it coming in your physical mail box each month when the magazine is published, it is delivered to your ‘RSS Reader’ every time your favorite website updates, automatically, some times every day.

Using RSS-feeds is a real time-saver and it is simply more convenient. Try it and see for yourself!