Syndication formats

You may have heared a lot about syndication formats. But do you know exactly what is a syndication format? or why people use it? Probably not. In the past, when we wanted to get information from our favourite site or blog, we would have to go to that specific site and see if it had new changes. However, nowadays, this is not going to happen any more thanks to names like RSS or Atom. Syndication formats say users if there have been changes in the sites in which they have subscribed.

They are very helpful and give us the opportunity to save a lot of time. Many people say that there is a clear relation between the creation of syndication formats and the fact that there were more and more blogs in the internet. There are a lot,  but the most important is called RSS that means Really Simple Syndication. Then, we also have RDF that means Resouce Description Framework and was created by Ramathan V. Guha.  We also have to talk about Atom that is said to be better than RSS. Many people say it has better applications and that one day everybody will use Atom instead of RSS. One of the persons that more defends  this statement is Benjamin Trott who has created many things such as TypePad.

These tool has not been always like we know it right now. It has suffered many changes to provide users a good service. For example,if we return to the past, there was a clear precedent of this kind of thechnology which was the technology “push and pull” . Now, it has changed a lot thaks to  readers like Google Reader, My Yahoo!,  newsgator, bloglines too. We can see the latest changes in all our favourites sites from this reader. The times when we had to surf from one site to another site have finished. Now is the other way round information go to us.

 

Finally, I would like to say that we can increase the quality of our blogs by putting RSS feeds from other sites related to our blog. If we do that, there will be more information about the same thing connected. RSS is very useful and not only can we communicate better now but also get more information faster. There is a link of a video in the references which I highly recommend because explain very well everything about syndication formats.

References:

• Video: RSS in Plain English (2007,  April, 23) In Youtube. Retrieved 11:15, June 28, 2010, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU
• RSS (2010,June,27) In Wikipedia. Retrieved 12:00, June 28, 2010, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS
• Atom (2010, June, 26) In Wikipedia. Retrieved 12: 30, June 28, 2010 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(standard)
• Definition of Syndication Format (2010) In PCMAG. Retrieved 13:15 , June 28, from  http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia_term/0,2542,t=syndication+format&i=52356,00.asp
• RSS Primer: One Page Quick Introduction to RSS. In whatisrss. Retrieved 14: 30, June 28, from http://www.whatisrss.com/

RSS

The Internet is developing in a very fast way. There are appearing new instruments that help us to use it more easily and faster. One of these instruments is RSS. This instrument is a format based in XML and allows you to get up-to-date  informationwithout having to go to all the blogs you normally go. It has to be said that there exist three types of format RSS( Rich Site Summary, RDF Site Summary and Really Simple Syndication) and his initials acquire a different meaning depending which one you are using.

RSS SYMBOL

RSS has changed the way we use Internet. Before now, we had to go to every single blog to see if there was new information.It was frustrating when there were no changes and we have gone there for nothing. However, nowadays the news come to us.The RSS has helped us to earn time and not wasting it .

But how does RSS work?If you want to use RSS, you will have to follow these steps.Firstly, you need a RSS reader like Google reader(there are more RSS readers but this is a good one). Then, you create an account in Google reader and go to your favourite blogs. Finally, when you are in the blogs you only have to copy the feedsand add them to Google reader. You will only have to go to Google reader to see if there have been changes in your favourite blogs.

This method is very useful and more and more people are starting to use it. Try to get used  to the symbol of the photograph because you are going to see  it many times.

References:

• RSS.(2009 January,31) In wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.Retrieved 12:07, February 3, 2009 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format)
• Guía fácil del RSS.(2006 March, 26) In Geocities. Retrieved 13:54, February 3, 2009 from http://es.geocities.com/rss_guia_facil/index.html
• ¿ Qué es el RSS y comó es útil?(2009 January, 19)In Youtube. Retrieved 14:42, February 3,2009 from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lL_Nv7oObY
• Video: RSS in Plain English .(2007 April, 23) In commoncraft.Retrieved 14:50, February 3,2009 from http://www.commoncraft.com/store-item/rss_plain_english