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RSS (Rich Site Summary, RDF Site Summary, or Really Simple Syndication) has been around since the mid-1990s. Over the years, several variants of the RSS format have popped up and several claims have been made about its ownership. Despite these differences, RSS never ceased to serve its usefulness in distributing Web content from one Web site to many others. The popularity of RSS gave way to the growth of a new class of Web software called the feed reader, also known as the feed aggregator. Although there are several commercially available feed aggregators, it's easy to develop your own feed aggregator, which you can integrate with your Web applications. You'll appreciate this article's fully functional PHP code snippets, demonstrating the use of PHP-based server-side functions to develop a customizable RSS feed aggregator. In addition, you'll reap instant benefits from using the fully functional RSS feed aggregator code, which you can download from this article.

I've found two more great RSS web application based tools for all of you webmasters, bloggers, and/or RSS Feed readers out there. One RSS tool serves a ton of different purposes such as a RSS Feed analytical report of sorts, and checks the popularity of your blog posts on various social networks. The other is a blogging community of sorts with various web based tools at your disposal and gives you the ability to create a super feed.

These two online web-application RSS Tools are great, and I've personally been using them myself for almost a year now it seems. URLFan.com - Where does your RSS Feed rank? CopyGator.com - Who's using that content for their own Website/Feed? Also, there is the third, the RSS graphic tool which is good for anyone looking for a somewhat plain and simple RSS feed button with more specific coloring.

Learn how to access password protected feeds in Google Reader. Secure RSS feeds can be viewed in google reader using FreeMyFeed service.

FeedBlitz is a service that monitors blogs, RSS feeds and Web URLs to provide greater reach for feed publishers. FeedBlitz takes all the headache out of converting feed and blog updates into email digests, delivered daily to subscribers' inboxes. FeedBlitz manages subscriptions, circulation tracking, testing, and is compatible with all major blogging platforms and services such as Blogger, Typepad and FeedBurner. Unlike other blogmail services, FeedBlitz is reliable, scalable and fully supported. No betas, wish lists or road map items here. You're in production, and so is FeedBlitz.

interesting to polemus freaks as polemus is the first site that combines RSS with users' forums

Allows you to "rinse" (filter) your RSS feeds to only read what you want to read

tagging tool * Tag friends and associates to create contextual relationships * Combine your blog, photo hosting, and RSS feeds * Promote yourself and discover people with similar interests

Online magazine rack of popular topics, with all your favorite RSS feeds.

A social media newsroom is one place to send the media, prospective clients, book reviewers, or anyone who wants to know all about you, your business, or your book. This is a great explanation of SMNRs with examples.

There's eight ajax applications scheduled to be in the initial release. A contacts manager, calendar, email broadcast tool, to-do lists, a financial ledger, a feed reader, favorites and tagging. All of the applications will be fully accessible by mobile device; there will be three versions of the site, a text only version for simple phones, a version with more graphics for PDAs and the basic browser version.