Newsfeeds
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What is a "newsfeed"?
A newsfeed provides headlines and links back
to a website for the full articles.
You select which sites you want in your newsfeed.
Almost all websites provide newsfeeds these days.
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Why would i want to use a newsfeed?
Newsfeeds make it very convenient to check what
is new on many websites.
And you don't have to go to each website, you just
scan over the headlines in your news reader.
You can see the headlines of new articles or postings,
and even summaries of the content. Then if you want
to read more, just click to go straight to the website.
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What do I need to use a newsfeed?
You need a program called a news reader
that displays newsfeeds from the websites you select.
These readers are either a stand-alone program,
or part of a web browser like
Mozilla Firefox.
A list of readers can be found on
Yahoo.com
or on
Google.com.
Miss Tibet provides the following newsfeeds:
Entire website
(Latest headlines from all sections of the
Miss Tibet website)
More about newsfeeds
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What is rss and xml?
You will see these abbreviations associated with
newsfeeds. You don't have to know anything
about them to use the newsfeed.
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rss is for
Really Simple Syndication.
It is the most popular kind of newsfeed.
There are several versions of rss.
The common ones used are version 0.91
and version 2.0.
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xml
is eXtended Markup Language.
The file format for the newsfeed is usually in
this format.
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