What's RSS?

What's RSS? What's an RSS feed?

RSS (or "really simple syndication") is a technology that lets you broadcast or syndicate your content to the world. In the past, people needed to visit your website to see if you'd updated. If you went a few days between updates, your audience might give up and move on to something else. RSS lets you solve this problem by sending notifications to people when you've posted new content! RSS goes beyond mere notifications, however - you can go so far as to include your update in the feed itself! It lets websites come to you. RSS feeds are sometimes represented by this icon:

Wikipedia also has an article on RSS and its history.

How do people access an RSS feed?

RSS feeds are accessed through an RSS reader, and there are hundreds of RSS readers available online. You can download stand-alone applications that are designed just to read RSS files, or you can subscribe via your web browser. In most cases, clicking on an RSS file is enough!

The latest versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera all include RSS readers.

This sounds great. How do I create an RSS feed?

There's the catch. RSS feeds are a type of XML, which is a well-defined document language for computer parsing. This means that it's designed to make it easy for computers to understand it, but not necessarily for humans to create it.

That's where we come in.

RSSPECT empowers you to create your own RSS feed. You don't need to know how to program or even know HTML! You can transform anything online into an RSS feed automatically, without advertising, and for free. We'll check the sites you indicate for updates - and everytime there's something new, we'll update your RSS feed to reflect the new content. Everything's automatic from here on out. Give us a try!