Tailoring your web experience

2006 January 21
by Courtney

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From Yahoo.com –> Tailor made for you - RSS

Did you ever wonder why I have all those button across the bottom on the website? What is that orange “XML” or “RSS” box on all these websites anyway?

RSS stands for Real Simple (or Standard) Syndication. That means that the content from those websites is put into a special format that can be imported into other websites or things call RSS Aggregators.

This technology allows you to monitor the content of a multitude of websites all on a single page. This is such a growing technology, that the next version of Windows (“Vista”) is going to have RSS reading capabilities built into it.

Personally, I use “My Yahoo” as my RSS Aggregator. That means on a single page, I can see the headlines from my favorite bloggers (Write some more djchuang!!), the latest photos uploaded from Ken Liu, what is shipping next from our Netflix queue, and the sermons from my home church, Lake Forest, and our sister church Warehouse 242. Anytime I see a headline that I am interested in, I just click on it and it takes me right to that post on the website.

So if you are a person that goes web surfing and finds a site that you really like - instead of adding it to your “favorites”, add the RSS or XML feed to your Aggregator so you not only know about the website, but can see instantly if there are any new articles that are worth reading/hearing/or viewing.

Read the article from Yahoo to learn even more about this way of experiencing the web.

from → FAQ, Technology

2 Comments leave one →
2006 January 22
Ken permalink

I can’t believe you don’t have a link to del.icio.us! It’s the best of the bunch.

2006 January 30
djchuang permalink

Thanks for the kind words of encouragement, I’d love to write more, but am hunkered down for a while on a book editing project. What I haven’t figured out is how to monetize my blogging, so then I could write all the time and not worry about cash flow. The dominant model for professional blogging is advertising revenue, but that means writing something about stuff that the economy values: products and politics, but I’m not into those things. So I’m stuck writing about obscure things in my niche, but very encouraged to know of a few loyal readers out there like yourself! :)

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