Thursday, January 13, 2005

RSS News Feeds

I recently signed up for NewsGator Online, and I have to say I'm a big fan of RSS. I used to be one of those guys that would spend the first 30 minutes of each day surfing various websites just to catch up on the latest news...espn, wsj, etc., plus assorted other weblogs I enjoy reading. Now I get all this news aggregated for me and I'm updated when headlines change so I don't need to "recheck" all the same websites throughout the day. MyYahoo has similar capabilities and there are several other free readers out there. If you're not familiar with RSS it's basically a standardized XML format used for syndicating content. If you're really interested, XML.com has a more detailed description and history.

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