RSS
2025-07-14 00:00:00 UTC
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RSS is an abberviation for Rich Site Summary.
RSS is all about real-time information.
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About RSS
RSS feeds allow you to see when sites have added new content so you can get the latest headlines and videos in one place, as soon as they are published, without having to visit the sites you have taken the feeds from, and RSS virtually includes every "self-refreshing" or "self-updating" content.
What is RSS?
RSS feeds are an internet format that utilized to publish frequently updated content (such as news headlines, real-time stock market quotes, journal entries, videos, et cetera) in a standardized XML format.
An RSS document includes text (full or summerized) and metadata such as links to torrents, internet pages, publishing time, authorship.
RSS for XMPP
Initially implemented by "Tigase Inc.", RSS for XMPP (henceforth "Atom Over XMPP") is the most advanced version of RSS; It is the implementation which has made RSS truely real-time, for the first time in its history over the internet.
Atom Over XMPP enables real-time immediate updates, with a maximal deviation difference of 15 - 30 seconds, at most, from the time a new update is published.
Because Atom Over XMPP allows to automate the delivery of real-time updates in a matter of seconds; since its inception, in the early years of the millennium of 2000, Atom Over XMPP has been the de-facto standard for publishing of critical information amongst high ranking units in aviation, intelligence, military, and police organizations, including elite special armed forces.
Utilizing RSS
When seeing the RSS Logo on a site, clicking on it let you subscribe to its RSS feed, which simply means copying the feed URL and pasting it into your RSS Reader.
The basic idea is that you do not have to "refresh" anything because it is done automatically. Once you have bookmarked your favorite feeds, only launch your news reader to know what is new.
Vocabulary
RSS - An acronym for Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary.
RSS Feed - An XML document which is formed in a standard structure.
Atom - The Atom Syndication Format is the current standard format for RSS.
Atom Over XMPP - A method of distributing RSS updates over XMPP, in real-time.
Syndication - A general reference to any technology which allows to convey structured data in an automated fashion.
Podcast - A syndication feed which is specifically meant to convey audible content.
Vocast - A syndication feed which is specifically meant to convey visual content.
Bitcast - A syndication feed which is meant to convey hyper-content (any type of textual or multimedia content of unlimited size), in batch, over the BitTorrent Peer-to-Peer network.
Metacast - A syndication feed which is meant to convey hyper-content (any type of textual or multimedia content of unlimited size), in batch, over multiple protocols, including Peer-to-Peer protocols, such as BitTorrent, eD2k (eDonkey2000), FTP, G2 (Gnutella), Gemini, HTTP, and IPFS, by utilizing the Metalink technology.
Metalink - An Internet standard that harnesses the speed and power of Peer-to-Peer networking and traditional downloads with a single click. For consumers and content providers, Metalink makes downloading simpler, faster, and more reliable.
P2P - An abberviation for Peer-to-Peer which is a reference for protocols and networks, such as BitTorrent, eD2k, G2, and IPFS, that are mainly designed for the safe and secure distribution of content of any size; be it articles, audio books, digital books, documents, games, music, videos and other types of multimedia content; Most of P2P software support the technology of RSS.
Resources
RFC 4287: The Atom Syndication Format
RFC 5854: The Metalink Download Description Format
XEP-0277: Journaling Over XMPP
Syndicated technologies embody of what free and open telecommunication should really be, a truely free-speech-driven telecommunication and publishing international system.
—Alex J. Anderson