What is RSS?

RSS is an acronym that stands for Really Simple Syndication

RSS is a family of web feed formats, specified in XML and used for Web syndication .

RSS is used by (among other things) news websites , weblogs and podcasting

What will it do for me?

Web feeds provide web content or summaries of web content together with links to the full versions of the content and other metadata .

In addition to facilitating syndication, web feeds allow a website's frequent readers to track updates on the site using an aggregator .