RSS

• San Jose IBM PC Club
• February 14, 2012

• http://sjpc.org/baker/presentations/rss

• Alan Baker

• What is RSS?

• RSS Readers

• What else can you do with RSS?
  

• Your custom newspaper

• A way for news sources to push news out to subscribers

• The acronym stands for Really Simple Syndication

• Also know as feed readers and news aggregators
• Get an RSS feed by clicking the symbol. 
  

• There are dozens of different RSS readers available.  We'll look at four.
  

• Look and feel: magazine-like

• Headlines by news source

• Hourly/daily news podcasts

• News links via Twitter

• To add a feed:  Click Add Content
  

• http://www.netvibes.com
  

• An RSS reader built into Thunderbird

• Look and feel of email

• Shows number of unread articles

• To add a feed:  Manage subscriptions, add URL

• http://kb.mozillazine.org/RSS_basics_(Thunderbird)
  

• Organize via star, tag, and sort
  

• Look and feel: Titles plus some opening words

• To add a feed:  Click Subscribe, paste URL
• http://www.blueglass.com/blog/beginner-guide-to-rss-google-reader
  

• Look and feel:  "Live Bookmarks"

• Integrates with Bookmarks Toolbar

• Nested folders, mix with normal bookmarks

• To add a feed: Click  and subscribe

• http://webtrends.about.com/od/webfeedsyndicationrss/a/firefox-live-bm.htm
  

• Non-public RSS feeds

• Push notification is coming: