What is Feeds?

Why use it: User to distribute their content well beyond just visitors using browsers.

What it can do:

• Feeds permits subscription to regular updates, delivered automatically via a web portal, news reader, or in some cases good old email.
• Feeds make possible for site content to be packaged into 'widgets,' 'gadgets,' mobile devices, and other bite-sized technologies that make it possible to display blogs, podcasts, and major news [sports, weather and etc] whatever headlines just about anywhrere.

Why is this good: Online publishing has made it really easy to not only publish regular updates to web-based content, but also keep track of a large number of your favourite websites or blogs, without having to remember to check each site manually or clutter your email inbox.

Example: Live Bookmarks by Fire Fox

Whether it’s news from CNN and the BBC, or posts on your friend’s blog, the Web is updated continually. Firefox’s Live Bookmarks feature automatically keeps track of these updates for you, so you always know when new content has been added to your favorite sites.

With Live Bookmarks, the content comes to you. Instead of constantly checking Web pages for changes and additions, a Live Bookmark delivers updates to you as soon as they are available.


Popular Feed Readers

Applications

* NewsGator - FeedDemon 2.0
(Windows, more info)
* NewsGator - Inbox for Microsoft Outlook
(Windows)
* NewsGator - NetNewsWire
(OS X)
* Firefox
(via "Live Bookmarks" feature)
* Safari
(feed support in the Apple OS X native browser)
* Pulp Fiction
(OS X)

Online Services

* Google Reader
* NewsGator
(Online)
* My Yahoo!
* Bloglines
* Pageflakes
* Netvibes

Podcast Readers

* iTunes
* Juice
* Doppler
* FireAnt


Terms:
News Aggregators; feed reading applications for text ad podcatchers for podcasts.

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