E-mails coming out of your ears? No time to stop and read your favourite websites? Is the luxury of being able to "surf the web" just a distant memory?
An old idea, which could have ended up on the dot.com rubbish tip, might be just what is needed to help solve your problems. WoW how far we've come This article made national news on this day in 2004.
Most people have never heard of this idea, let alone seen what it can do. But legions of techies, bloggers and website developers tend to get very excited about it, believing that it's the best way to keep in touch with the web. Some believe it could even spell doom for spam. 3 YRS later I have a site called Vote For Bacn,And spam still exisits and RSS still hasn't stopped us bloggers.
The idea - let's call it RSS - comes from a bit of work done in the 1990s at Netscape and elsewhere. The point of it was that key bits of websites, such as headlines, could be sent out in a bare form, stripped of all fancy graphics and layouts. These could then be incorporated easily into other websites.
So what is it about this idea which gets people so excited?
The most compelling use of RSS is that it lets users read dozens of websites, all on the same page. The sites can be scanned in seconds rather than having to be laboriously loaded individually.
How one RSS reader looks just look at my site I use them and love them. To bad they havent made them to keep the reader on your own site rather than send them ro anothers.
Many sites and most weblogs now provide a feed of their content in RSS format. More are likely to join them as the audience grows. Remember this was 2004 and we've come a long way baby.
A program (usually called a reader) collects a number of different sites' feeds chosen by the user, and displays them in much the same way as an e-mail inbox.
Well you know the rest. Find this article intresting vote for bacn
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