Countless articles and blog posts are produced every day.It is difficult to stay up to date.But with a small program, individual news tickers can be created.
With so-called RSS feeds, news from any number of websites can be bundled."To put it simply, RSS-Feeds are individualizable news and information stickers in text form," explains Thorsten Neuhetzki from Tech-Portal "Inside-Digital.de ".The only prerequisite: the pages must be the web feed format with the file endings.RSS or.support XML.
No feed without RSS reader
To subscribe to the RSS feed of a website, users have to install a so-called feed reader to computer or smartphone.There are such programs across platforms for all common operating systems, says Marinus Martin from the Technik-Portal "Netzwelt.de ".Appropriate apps for the smartphone are, for example, "Feedly", "Newsblur", "Inoreader" or "Feeder".
These programs synchronize the incoming messages with a smartphone and PC and web application.The modern way of the RSS feed reader also offers further advantages: "Providers such as" Feedly "also make suggestions for possible feeds due to keywords or interests," says Neuhetzki.
The RSS feed of the T-Online.de digital departments is: https: // www.T-online.de/topics/RSS/digital copy this link and add it to your RSS reader to subscribe to all articles of the digital resort.The RSS feeds of the other departments can be found under this link.
For the browser there are also RSS add-ons, such as "Feedbro".In the program you only have to integrate the feed link of a website and subscribe to it in this way.But here is often the sticking point of RSS-Feeds.
Google helps with the search for the URL
Many websites work with the well-known, easily recognizable RSS feed logo."If you click on the button, the user can usually select his service.Sometimes he only gets to see cryptic code, "explains Thorsten Neuhetzki.It is already the actual feed.Here you have to get the URL out of the browser line that with ".XML "ends, copy and manually import into your own feed reader.
If users have not found what they are looking for even for accurate searches, search engines like Google may bring to their destination, says Marinus Martin.If you enter the keywords "RSS Feed" and the name of the website, you usually get the link to the feed.
RSS feeds and readers not only have the advantage that they are often free.On the way you protect the data volume because only the cutout of an article is loaded, explains Neuhetzki.In addition, the user does not have to provide personal data such as his email address or register.
