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RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works – such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video – in a standardized format. An RSS document (which is called a "feed", "web feed", or "channel") includes full or summarized text, plus metadata such as publishing dates and authorship.
Web feeds benefit publishers by letting them syndicate content quickly and automatically. They benefit readers who want to subscribe to timely updates from favored websites or to aggregate feeds from many sites into one place. RSS feeds can be read using software called an "RSS reader", "feed reader", or "aggregator", which can be web-based or desktop-based.
A standardized XML file format allows the information to be published once and viewed by many different programs. The user subscribes to a feed by entering the feed's link into the reader or by clicking an RSS icon in a browser that initiates the subscription process.
The RSS reader checks the user's subscribed feeds regularly for new work, downloads any updates that it finds, and provides a user interface to monitor and read the feeds. Although RSS formats have evolved since March 1999, the RSS icon  first gained widespread use in 2005–2006.
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Supreme Master TV (Veoh.com) |
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RSS feeds are the new way to get news, job listings, and classifieds delivered straight to your desktop.
For more information, Builder has an article on parsing the News.com feed using PHP.
Syndic8.com has a large directory of available feeds. There are many, many news reader applications which use RSS files. Below are some popular ones:
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