What is RSS RSS is an English Rich Summary (a rich site summary) or Really Simple Syndication's first letters, which is a data exchange specification for sharing news titles and other web content. RSS How to work You usually need to download and install an RSS news reader, then subscribe to the content of the news column you are interested in from the aggregated news directory list. After subscription, you will get the latest content of the Subscribe News Channel in time A. There is no ads or pictures to affect the title or reading of the article. b. RSS reader automatically updates the content of your customized web site, maintaining the timeliness of the news. c. Users can join multiple custom RSS feeds from multiple sources to collect news into a single data stream. Download the RSS News Reader Tips Some RSS readers are required to run in the .NET Framework work environment, please download the installation of Microsoft .NET Framework, download and install the RSS news reader RSS reader download Link RSS related background discussion with blog related The technology, inevitably, RSS, this abbreviation can have several source in English, and different interpretations are made by different technical groups. It can be "Rich Site Summary", or "RDF Site Summary" or "Really Simple Syndication". Why is there so many meanings? This is also about the relationship between RSS today. Today, someone still remembers an interesting feature when IE 4 just pushed, that is, news channel. The function of this news channel is very similar to the news channel launched by Netscape (at that time, Netscape or market browser). To this end, Netscape defines a set of languages that describe the news channel, this is RSS, but Netscape has worseful since the time, so it has not issued a formal RSS specification (only a 0.9 version only). Microsoft also launched the CDF (Channel Definition Format) data specifications that supported its IE, very close to RSS. Microsoft attempts to use news channels to turn "push" technology into an application mainstream and compete with Netscape. However, it is predicted that "push" technology did not find a suitable business model from beginning to end, and accompanied by the emergence of other network features, it is also increasingly unable to show its own advantages. The status of news channels in the browser ultimate day Xishan, and finally disappeared in the subsequent version of IE. The news channel has indeed entered the trough, but the RSS is not abandoned by the industry. In the past two years, Blog has gradually become the most popular new topic on the Internet from a professional group. RSS has the most basic method describing the BLOG subject and update information. Then RSS technology is taken over by the famous Blogger / Geek Dave Winner, continues to develop new versions to adapt to new web applications. The new web application is Blog, because Dave Wenna's efforts, RSS upgrade to version 0.91, then reached 0.92 version, then it is applied in various BLOG tools and is supported by many professional news sites. During a wide range of applications, many professionals recognize that they need to organize and develop RSS a generic specification and further standardize. A joint team redefines RSS based on the W3C's new generation of Semantic Network Technology RSS, releases RSS 1.0, and defines RSS as "RDF Site Summary".