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RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a popular way to pull in news and information from across the Web. It's a technology that allows web sites and blogs to easily add content to your page.

Look for a little orange button like this: RSS FEED. This indicates the site syndicates its content. Usually, the button points directly to the site's RSS file. (The page looks like raw code, but don't let it scare you!)

Syndication benefits both users and publishers by helping users consume more information – instead of visiting multiple web sites to see what's new, users can scan headlines or article summaries and click to read the full text. Some publishers also make their entire content (whether full-text or audio/video) available for users to access via RSS and view in other applications. It's "really simple" for publishers to make content available in this format.

Because RSS is still relatively new on the Net, not all sites syndicate their content today. However, many notable sites offer RSS, and every day the RSS universe grows. For example, news sites such as CNN, Christian Science Monitor, Time Magazine, The New York Times, and CNet's News.com use RSS to syndicate headlines and summaries. Other sites like craigslist use RSS to alert customers to new listings, products, or upcoming events.

Learn More About RSS ...

• Find / Create RSS Feeds for Your Sites
• RSS Tutorials

Find / Create RSS Feeds for Your Sites

If you're a webmaster or developer who manages a complex or custom content management system, there are many tutorials to help you get started with RSS publishing. Here are just a few resources:

If you publish a weblog (blog) or personal web site, you can find help information from your publishing software or hosting service provider to enable RSS on your platform. Many services offer built-in tools to publish and update RSS feeds easily. MovableType, Wordpress, and other software programs as well as Blogger, LiveJournal, Typepad, and other blog-hosting services automatically create RSS feeds.

Please follow the examples below to find / create RSS feeds for some popular blog-hosting services.

Yahoo! 360°

  • Syndication FAQ for Yahoo! 360°
  • Make your blog public and an RSS feed automatically appears at the bottom of your blog. You can see the feed by looking at the public view of your 360° page.

Blogger "Blogspot"

MSN Spaces

  • Your blog URL is:
    • http://spaces.msn.com/members/[USERNAME]
  • Your RSS URL is
    • http://spaces.msn.com/members/[USERNAME]/feed.rss

LiveJournal

  • Syndication FAQ for LiveJournal
  • Your blog follows one of two URL constructions:
    • http://www.livejournal.com/users/[USERNAME]
    • http://[USERNAME].livejournal.com
  • Your RSS URL is one of the following:
    • http://www.livejournals.com/users/[USERNAME] /rss.xml
    • http://[USERNAME].livejournal.com/rss.xml

Typepad

  • Syndication FAQ for Typepad
  • Your blog follows one of two URL constructions:
    • http://[USERNAME] .typepad.com
    • http://[USERNAME].blogs.com
  • Your RSS URL is one of the following:
    • http://[USERNAME].typepad.com/[TITLE] /index.rdf
    • http://[USERNAME].blogs.com/[TITLE]/index.rdf

RSS Tutorials

There's lots of information on the Web about RSS. Here are some starting points: