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Simply click on a feed below to view or subscribe to it using an RSS enabled browser or simply copy the link and add it to your favourite reader. Remember you can subscribe to as many as you like:
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There are literally billions of web pages out there screaming at you to visit them and keeping up with them can be a chore. RSS feeds let you keep up to date with the latest info on all your favourite sites without having to take the trouble to visit them. In effect, bits of their sites come to you in one place instead.
An RSS feed is usually made up of a number of titles/product names and short summaries of full content/product on the website that produced the feed. In other words, you can quickly look at the summaries and, at a glance, tell if you want to click through and visit the full version on the website. Plus, your computer will let you know when a new feed is available. And that's what an RSS feed is – a summary of the latest content on a website so that you can see whether there is anything new or interesting available.
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. Unlike some obscure technical terms, this one does what it says on the tin: it's a simple web syndication format.
RSS is an international standard, and is rapidly growing in popularity because it makes keeping up to date with the sites you like quick and easy.
Top RSS feed readers
(Above shows a list of the most popular readers in October 2007)
Browsers that support RSS
Here is a list of browsers that already support RSS:
So, once you've found one or more RSS feeds you want to subscribe to, what’s next? What you need is a way of grouping your feeds together and displaying them so you can see them all in one place. There are several ways of doing this, which one you choose really depends on which you find easiest. All the different ways of using feeds usually offer some things in common:
- A way of subscribing to feeds – pointing to the location, like a website address, where all the up-to-date feed content will be available
- A way of displaying all the feeds you have subscribed to
- A way of telling you which feeds have new content in them
- A way of following links back to the full content on the website
Lots of different companies offer separate downloadable programs (often called 'desktop readers') that will do most of the above and some websites (often called 'web-based readers') and even some web browsers will read and present RSS feeds too.
Comet does not have its own feed reader, but there are lots of different sites which review and recommend various readers. If you search for "feed finder" or "RSS reader" in your search engine, you will find some of the more popular ones.
- Choose a feed reader you want to use. You may need to set up a user account.
- Click on an RSS feed above that you are interested in subscribing to.
- Subscribe to the feed - this works differently for different readers. You might be able to drag and drop the RSS link to your reader. Or another way is to copy the address of the feed from your browser's Address bar. Paste this into your reader. (You may need to set up a new feed (sometimes called a 'channel' first). Most readers that are available will have specific help sections for their own products - refer to this if you get stuck.
- Check your feed reader regularly to see if there is any new or interesting content and promotions.
- When you find something you want to know more about click the link in the reader to go straight to the page in your browser.
- All done! Of course, you can repeat these simple steps again for all the other feeds you are interested in.
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