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.
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.
Friends of Tibet (INDIA) provides the following news feeds:
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.
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.
xmlis eXtended Markup Language.
The file format for the newsfeed is usually in
this format.