Web Syndication, today!

Syndication means the distribution a news article through some medium. It’s making information on a website available for a wide range of uses. There are mainly two syndication protocols used RSS and Atom. The latest version of RSS 2.0 seems to be the standard used for many news sites, blogs, podcasts, however Atom is probably technically superior.

Web frameworks and software packages now feature basic support for syndication technologies such as RSS 2.0 and the Atom Syndication Format.

Now, whenever you visit a blog or news site and want to know what the updates are going on there, you can very easily subscribe for the RSS feed by clicking on RSS icon in the address bar of the browser IE 7 or Firefox 2. And then you have to choose your favorite reader. Thats it!

There are desktop applications using which we can read RSS, but the most popular RSS readers now seem to be online services such as iGoogle, Google Reader, Bloglines and many more. If you are viewing this blog on http://mycodefactory.blogspot.com , you can see the icons which is saying ‘Add to Google’, ’Add to Yahoo’, ‘Add to AOL’ are the feed links. Those you can add to your RSS readers online and as my blog get updated, you will come to know in your reader. This is called blog subcription. Those icons are well known as chicklets.

And simple way to subscribe for my blog is to enter your email address and press subscribe!