Presentation of RSS Feeds

1. Shri Ram Murti Smarak College of
Engineering and Technology,Bareilly
Report on
RSS(Really Simple Syndication)
Submitted by:
Nimit Johri
(nimitjohri@gmail.com)

6. RSS

7. Problems with e-mail
• SPAM - messages are often deleted or are filtered
because of cluttered mailboxes
• Viruses – more and more legitimate messages are not
reaching their destination
due to the proliferation of viruses.

9. XML
.xml
.rss

10. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>RSS Title</title>
<description>This is an example of an RSS feed</description>
<link>http://www.example.com/main.html</link>
<lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:01:00 +0000 </lastBuildDate>
<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
<ttl>1800</ttl>
<item>
<title>Example entry</title>
<description>Here is some text containing an interesting description.</description>
<link>http://www.example.com/blog/post/1</link>
<guid isPermaLink="true">7bd204c6-1655-4c27-aeee-53f933c5395f</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>

12. Popular RSS Readers
 NewzCrawler
 FeedDemon
 Omega Reader
 NewsGator
 Awasu
 Blog Navigator
 SharpReader

13. Popular Sources of RSS
Commercial Sources
(CNN, NBC)
Web Sites
Blogs

14. Modules of RSS
Media RSS (MRSS) Module
OpenSearch RSS Module

15. Media RSS (MRSS)
MRSS is an RSS extension used for
media files such as audio, video,
image file
It was designed by Yahoo! In 2004
and added several enhancements to
RSS such as thumbnails

16. OpenSearch RSS
 OpenSearch is a collection of technologies that
allow publishing of search results in a format
suitable for syndication
 OpenSearch RSS is a format for providing open
search results
 In browsers the default search engine can be
changed to RSS to find RSS feeds

17. Pros of RSS
Saves Time
Articles from multiple sources
Easily add/remove subscriptions
RSS maintains privacy and anonymity
Electronic format allows easy sharing
Spam Free

18. Cons of RSS
Not widely adopted (yet)
Content can easily be copied
Has to be connected to a
network
RSS feeds are a bandwidth
waster

19. BroadCatching
Some Bittorent clients support RSS
RSS feeds which provide links to
.torrent files allow users to subscribe
and automatically download content
as soon as it is published.

20. Websites Using RSS
 CNN
 New York Times
 BBC News
 NASA
 Yahoo!
 National Geographic
 Adobe
 Picasa

21. THANK YOU !

22. Queries ?