RSS Aggregators

To people who aren't familiar with RSS Aggregators it is a useful tool in today's technology. In order to understand the meaning of RSS Aggregators you must need know to know the definition of aggregate means first. Aggregate means something formed by the conjunction or collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum. So an Aggregator would be a client software or a web application which aggregates syndicated web content. Today these web 2.0 tools are very important. How are they important? Well say if you needed up dates about something like the news or car dealerships, then you would need to check for new up dates. With RSS you can just subscribe to that website and it will tell you if there is something that is new. Without RSS you would have to go back to that website then go to what you were looking for and look for yourself to see if there is anything new. If a person knows what how to use RSS then they should be able to set up aggregators. There are websites that let you make aggregators so lets have a look at the most used web - based RSS Aggregators.

• Google Reader




• Bloglines




• Rojo

When subscribing you want to look for an orange icon or an icon that says something about RSS. The icons that are used look like some what like these. If you are unable to find any of these icons then it means that the person of the blog does not know how or they don't want any subscribers.

There are many ways to how you can go and find RSS icons so you could add them to your aggregator and I will show you 3 ways that you can do it. Most RSS are linked with small icons with letters on them. There are a variety of how the icons can look like with the color, size, and sometimes there might only be words of RSS icons. Try to look on the menu page on the left, right, or footer of the page. Most of the blogs you already read may have RSS so you can go to BlogStreet’s RSS Discovery and type in the website.