Week 3: Using web-based RSS Reader.

Hello Readers,

Welcome to my 2^nd blog activity. Today I’m going to discuss about social media tools. We all must be familiar with most of the social media tools such as blogs, online advertising, Podcasting, social media, Wikis and various other networking sites like Twitter and Facebook. But today I’m going to share my views on one of the popular social media tool called RSS feed.

What is RSS? 

According to Rowse, 2013, RSS (Rich Site Summary) is a technology that is being used by millions of web users around the world to keep track of their favourite websites. It‘s basically a format of delivering frequently changing web content. Various social media related websites, news related websites, and weblogs and many online content publishers associate their content on RSS Feed. And then this feeds can be used to access the content related to the feed. 

This looks interesting; I mean I regularly use web to access different news sites. But every time I had to visit the site individually to read its content. And now with the help of their respected RSS feeds it helped me to easily stay informed by updating me with the latest content from the website which I am interested in. Also I saved huge time by unsubscribing from each sites newsletters.

To dig in further, I browsed various websites to looks for their RSS feeds and to learn more about it. The number of sites providing RSS feed is expanding swiftly which includes some of the big names like Yahoo NEWS , CNN News.

Before starting anything further, I have to sign up to a RSS reader or feed reader or news aggregator software’s. This tools help to grab the RSS feeds from various sites and display them to read. There are various RSS readers to choose from depending on the Operating System supported. Some popular applications of feed readers include Amphetadesk (Windows, Linux, and Mac), SharpReader (Windows), and Liferea (Linux). Also there are numerous web-based RSS feed reader available to use one of the popular been Google Reader. But unfortunately Google reader has now been decommissioned. 

To start with I chose Digg. Diggdelivers the most interesting and talked about stories on the Internet now. I think it’s one of the simplest RSS web readers I have seen during my research. It’s simple, user friendly and easy sing up and subscribe features are amazing. I actually didn’t have to create a new login Id for it; in fact I had an option to use my Facebook, Twitter or Google Id to login. I used my Google login to sign up to the web reader. 

The other reason why I choose Digg was that it was available on different platforms. So now we can Digg anywhere.  I use both Android and Apple iOS device for reading new articles and news. And we can download Digg’s application available for both Android based devices and for iOS devices.

You would also be interested to join Diggs Google+ community , Facebook Page, on Twitter or on Tumblr.

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