No-one can even agree on what the initials stand for. So, what is RSS all about?
R emember the ill-fated push for 'push' content which occurred around the time Microsoft introduced Internet Explorer version 4? Companies such as PointCast made a big splash for a while, offering to feed channels of information directly to our desktops. Unlike browsing, where you had to venture out onto the Net to find what you were interested in, push technology brought the stuff you were interested in right to your door, in the form of news headlines and stock market quotes and other types of information.
RSS is push, too. Or, rather, it's pull . Push implies the publisher knows who you are (a 'subscriber') and sends information to you; with pull, you know who the publisher is but they don't necessarily know you, a very important distinction in these days of spamming. There's no need to hand over information about yourself; instead, with an RSS reader on your computer, you go out searching for sites which offer RSS 'feeds', plug the appropriate address into your RSS reader and, from that moment on, have content delivered to your desktop as soon as it is updated.
RSS can also be used for subscription-based services and, as such, it offers online publishers a solution to the problem of having their ezines classified as junk mail by overzealous spam filters. Most RSS feeds these days, though, are demand-side services: you, the user, initiate and control the contact.
RSS succeeds where the original push failed because it is simple, lightweight and because control remains with the user.
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Beside he is writing some others blogs for notebook computer , computer training , computer software and personal computer
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