Nowadays content developers hardly get time to view websites and check on updates. RSS news feed is a client side software that retrieves structured information from websites, blogs, podcasts and gives an ordered result.

If we try to see the technical aspect of RSS News Feed, it is a web format which is used for sharing headlines and other web-content. It is a light-weight XML format that is used by leading portals for sharing news and other information among them. This technology is used by leading news sites such as BBC, CNET, CNN, Disney, Forbes and many more.

The tags used for RSS news feed are very similar to HTML tags and includes TITLE, URL and DESCRIPTION. RSS has solved many of the problems that are faced by webmasters such as increasing traffic and collecting and sharing news items. The news feeds that are received by the news portals are segregated into different categories and constantly updated to keep track of the latest world happenings.

The feeds that are distributed by the news sources are free of charge and intended to be used by individuals for non-commercial use. RSS is a great technology that helps us to freely share news globally.