RSS is just a shortened way of saying “Real Simple Syndication”. RSS feeds are web feeds that deliver a message to a reader when a website updates its content. RSS feeds are most commonly thought to be contained on blogs, when in reality people can actually subscribe to category RSS feeds on some social bookmarking websites, online classified websites like Craigslist, and micro-blogging websites like Twitter.
RSS feeds can save internet users considerable amounts of time. Rather than visiting a blog each day to see if anything new was posted, subscribing to the RSS feeds of the daily read blogs will allow the user to read all of the post from the multiple blogs in one central location (a feed reader – such as bloglines, google reader, etc.) Frequent Craigslist users can also use RSS feeds to alert them of new listings in their categories of interest to prevent frequent visitation of the website.
For their convenience, accuracy, and simplicity RSS feeds grab a 10/10. For an easy two click implementation and their superior time savability, RSS feeds once again grab a 10/10 bringing the RSS feed overall Techsplosive score to:
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