VT Emulation's news system provides an RSS feed for
anyone who would like to use it. If you are familiar with
RSS and how
to use it, you may link to it at the address below and use
it as you wish. If you are not familiar with RSS feeds,
please read below for more information.
What is an RSS feed?
RSS stands for "Really
Simple Syndication", it is essentially a syndicated news feed from a specific
site in the most basic form.
The RSS feed contains the stories you would find on the site's
main news page, except they are stripped of all formatting and constrained
to very strict RSS standards. In laymen's terms, it allows
you to plug links to the site's most recent news stories anywhere
you'd like, whether it be another site or a program used
to collect RSS news.
How can I use the RSS feed?
There
are many ways you can use the RSS feed. Many people use RSS
feeds for desktop news tickers, scrolling the headline news off of
their favorite sites; other people use more complex RSS aggregators
to collect and sort their RSS feeds in a specific fashion.
The other major use for RSS is integrating it into your own web page, so you
can provide your users with headlines from various RSS-capable sites.
The most likely use
you'll have for this service is for personal RSS aggregation through an RSS
aggregator as mentioned above. You can find a list of RSS aggregators at Backend.Userland.Com's
Aggregator listing (new window), and bear in mind that these are not the
only RSS aggregators in existence, you can find a host of others on the web
and
pull
up a few more
on Downloads.com (new
window) by searching for "RSS". The other use I mentioned is putting
the RSS feed into a web site, this task is a bit more complex and is a bit
too much to explain in this small blurb. For further information on RSS, you
can visit Backend.Userland.Com's
RSS page (new window).
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