About RSS Feeds


RSS

The Racers International Motorsports Connection has brought a very cool feature to the website.

RSS FEED - Simply put - viewers,sponsors and fans will be able to follow certain news without logging on to the RacersIMC.com website by subscribing to the feed simply by clicking on the Orange RSS FEED buttom. The article and any updates applied to that section will be sent and read in your RSS reader that you are subscibed to. It is similar to an email. 

Drivers/Teams: You will be able to allow your fans and sponsors to keep up to date on any changes you make to your RacersIMC profile.

News Section: Keep updated on ALL motorsports news or just a particular section that you wish to follow,  for example - Formula Car Racing.

Blog Section: Keep up on the RacersIMC Blogs as they are posted.

 

 

ABOUT RSS FEED
When you first hear the term "RSS" it was most likely used with other terms like RSS feeds, RSS reader and RSS feed reader. A similar term often used is Web Syndication.

definition (from Google Help Centers)

"An RSS feed is a regularly updated summary of web content, along with links to full versions of that content. When you subscribe to a given website's feed by using a feed reader, you'll receive a summary of new content from that website."

resources

I was a little intimidated by the term at first, but once I found out what the acronym stood for, it put me a little more at ease... According to Wikipedia, RSS is most commonly translated as Really Simple Syndication. So obviously there's no need to fret since the first 2 letters mean "Really Simple", right?

RSS is so simple that there's even a web-page devoted to the topic- WhatIsRSS.com. Though the author of the web-page has a different opinion about the "RSS" translation, (Rich Site Summary), the definition is the same as Wikipedia and Google Help. The author answers the question: "What Is RSS?... a format for delivering regularly changing web content"


GOOGLE READER

step 1

 Here's a great tool for folks who need a little hands-on experience. The graphics and step-by-step instructions of Google reader helped me to grasp the RSS functions. 

"Have trouble keeping up with the sites you visit? Read them in one place with Google Reader, where keeping up with your favorite websites is as easy as checking your email."

step 2

Once you've got your Google reader up and running, look for the RSS symbol on your favorite sites...

RSSThis icon is commonly displayed for RSS functions. A website visitor becomes a subscriber by clicking on the icon in a browser that initiates the subscription process.