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Full form of RSS: Here, we are going to learn about the RSS, full form of RSS, overview, history, advantages and disadvantages. By Anushree Goswami Last updated : March 26, 2024

RSS: Really Simple Syndication

RSS is an abbreviation of Really Simple Syndication. It is also called Rich Site Summary. It is quality attainment for the syndication of collection of web content and used to dispense and share informative updates of the web contents like news feeds headlines, website, blog entries, a summary of events and forum updates in the standard XML based file format. It enables a user to keep updated with the content information on many different websites in a solitary news aggregator. Spontaneously, the news aggregator will examine the RSS feed for new and unique content, enabling the content to be passed automatically from one website to the other website or from one website to the user. This process of passing of content from one website to another is called web syndication.

RSS documents generally carry complete or encapsulated text data, metadata, author and publishing information. RSS provides advantages to both publishers and subscribers because they spontaneously syndicate work in a format of arrangement that can be simply and easily accessed, acquired and viewed by different types of applications.

History of RSS

At the beginning of 1995, the fundamental idea of RSS of reorganizing information about websites was evolved when the Meta Content Framework was developed by Ramanathan V. Guha and others in Apple Computer's Advanced Technology Group.

Working of RSS

RSS in the process of making available for using the advantages for both publishers and readers, it syndicates web content automatically. It enables and makes easier for a reader to subscribe to their preferred website and without again going to check the website to read the latest updates.

RSS Advantages for subscribers

• A subscriber can subscribe to more than one forum of newsgroups and then a subscriber can modify his news feed to have all the news on a single page. It will help subscribers in saving a lot of time in checking the specific preferred news.
• A subscriber can simply examine the headlines because the RSS feed comes in the form of the organized structure of headlines and a short description so that a subscriber can click on only those news or contents that comes under his interest.

RSS Advantages for Publishers

• A publisher doesn't have to maintain a database of subscribers to send his information to them; rather they will check his feed by using a reader and they will get updated automatically either news or some other content. The RSS process of publishing is really very simple.
• A publisher only required writing in the form of titles and brief descriptions of an RSS feed and put his link in the background of his website, If a publisher has a new content published on his website.