REALLY SIMPLE SYNDICATION (RSS)

Perhaps one of the geekiest sounding of the new technologies and yet one of the biggest enablers of all things web 2.0 is RSS or Really Simple Syndication. When you see the abbreviation RSS on a blog, or a podcast, or a wiki page it indicates that it’s possible for a user to subscribe to the site and to be automatically informed of any changes or updates. RSS is the glue that holds the entire social web together. It enables users to build their own personal collection of significant information sources (blogs, wikis, podcasts weather reports, photo feeds and others) and to be alerted to any changes as and when they occur. And there are now special web 2.0 type services like NetVibes that enable users to collect their resources quickly and easily onto a single web page.

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