What is a Newsfeed?

Many news-related sites, blogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it. RSS (Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. A feed reader, also called a feed aggregator or news reader, is software which gathers syndicated web content such as news headlines, blogs, podcasts, and blogs in a single location for easy viewing.

RSS allows you to easily stay informed by retrieving the latest content from the sites you are interested in.

A variety of RSS Readers are available for different platforms. Some popular feed readers include Amphetadesk (Windows, Linux, Mac), FeedReader (Windows), and NewsGator (Windows - integrates with Outlook). There are also a number of web-based feed readers available. My Yahoo, Bloglines, and Google Reader are popular web-based feed readers.