Chapter 38. Staying in Touch with RSS and Instant Messaging
In This Chapter:
- Learn what RSS is really all about
- Subscribe to RSS feeds from within Internet Explorer
- View your feed details
- Use Instant Messaging to stay in touch
One of the features that web users have now used and relied on for several years is RSS, which stands for Really Simple Syndication, as you learned in Chapter 9, “Working with the Sidebar and Gadgets.” Websites that support RSS make their content available to you and everyone else who has an RSS reader of some kind. The bottom-line advantage of RSS is that your favorite website’s content, if that site supports RSS, will come to you instead of you having to go to the website to see whether anything is new. Although you ...
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