About RSS

Q1. What is RSS?
Q2. How to subscribe to a RSS feed?
Q3. What is an RSS reader?
Q4. What is in each RSS feed?

Q1. What is RSS?

A1. Really Simple Syndication, or RSS, provides you with the latest updates from the blogs you subscribe to even when you are not browsing Gloo. The latest blog updates will be delivered to your feed reader almost instantaneously!

Q2. How to subscribe to a RSS feed?

A2. You can subscribe to this RSS feed in a number of ways, including the following:

Drag the orange RSS button, or the RSS feed URL, from the blog you wish to subscribe to into your feed reader
Copy and paste the URL of the RSS feed from the blog into your feed reader

Q3. What is an RSS reader?

A3. An RSS reader is a program or a service that aggregates or consolidates RSS feeds from various sites and displays them for you to read and use. Once you have selected a particular blog, or "feed", to subscribe to, your RSS reader will check the site for regular updates and display them. This saves the user the hassle of checking a particular blog daily to check for updates.

RSS readers come in many formats. They can be an additional browser plug-in which you install on your browser, or it can be an online service which you log into to check for your updates (such as Bloglines.com). Portals like Yahoo and Google also provide an online RSS reader for their users.

RSS readers are also used interchangeably with terms such as feed readers, feed aggregators, news readers and search aggregators.

Q4. What is in each RSS feed from Gloo?

A4. In each RSS feed, there will be the following updates of the blogger: