RMS Feed?

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Johnny

Another new term I picked up on the Internet. Can someone tell me what it is
and what it might be useful for? Thanks.
 
J

Johnny

Believe it or not, I did that before I posted here. I think they are live
feeds that come from somewhere and can be attached or embedded on a site.
But what is their usefulness? Can you give me an example? Thanks.
 
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Kevin Spencer

I have no knowledge of the subject.

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Kevin Spencer
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of lots of little things.
 
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Mike Mueller

Johnny wrote:
: Believe it or not, I did that before I posted here. I
: think they are live feeds that come from somewhere and
: can be attached or embedded on a site. But what is their
: usefulness? Can you give me an example? Thanks.

I believe you are correct that it is a live feed. The
usefullness comes in for up to the minute information, so
that only 1 person wherever does an edit and then everyone
using that feed will be current and not have to update their
own sites. I have not used any RSS scripts, and I do not
know anyone who has. Firehouse.com uses a live feed based
on Java for the ticker on the their home page.
Codeamber.org distributes a javascript feed for amber
alerts.

Mike
 
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Bob Wyman

Johnny said:
Another new term I picked up on the Internet. Can someone tell me what it is
and what it might be useful for? Thanks.
Click to expand...
I think you probably mean "RSS" which stands for "Rich Site Summary."
This an XML format that is used to provide a machine readable version of the
content of a site or of the site's headlines. The format is used by a large
number of new publishers as well as by bloggers.
For an example of the kind of services you can get with RSS, take a look
at our site: http://pubsub.com/. We monitor over 1.1 million RSS files in
real-time and allow people to write "content-based" subscriptions that will
filter out from all that traffic just the particular items they are
interested in. For some examples of this, check out
http://pubsub.com/elections or http://pubsub.com/entertainment. These files,
although they are XML RSS files, have style sheets associated with them. To
see what the actual XML looks like, just do a "View Source".
Given the growing popularity of RSS (and its successor Atom), it
becoming "expected" that a well built site will have an RSS or Atom feed
that at least publishes a summary of the new and/or changed items on the
site. Many people prefer, of course, if you publish your full content in
your RSS file.

bob wyman
 
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