spylaw4 Posted May 15, 2007 Share #1 Posted May 15, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) are the funny little thingies for at the bottom of each post on the left hand side? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted May 15, 2007 Posted May 15, 2007 Hi spylaw4, Take a look here What on earth....?. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
frc Posted May 15, 2007 Share #2 Posted May 15, 2007 Well, Digg this post, Add post to del.icio.us, Bookmark post in thecnoratie, Furl this post, Wong this post! Well? Dunno. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted May 15, 2007 Share #3 Posted May 15, 2007 They are RSS feed subscription buttons, I believe. Regards, Bill Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
frc Posted May 15, 2007 Share #4 Posted May 15, 2007 How stupid is it to ask what on earth an RSS feed subscription button is? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted May 15, 2007 Share #5 Posted May 15, 2007 From Wikipedia: RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated digital content, such as blogs, news feeds or podcasts. Users of RSS content use software programs called "feed readers" or "feed aggregators". The user subscribes to a feed by entering a link of the feed into the reader program. The reader can then check the user's subscribed feeds to see if any of those feeds have new content since the last time it was checked, and, if so, retrieve that content and present it to the user. The initials "RSS" are variously used to refer to the following standards: Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0) Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0) RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9 and 1.0) RSS formats are specified in XML (a generic specification for data formats). RSS delivers its information as an XML file called an "RSS feed," "webfeed," "RSS stream," or "RSS channel". Regards, Bill Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talus Posted May 15, 2007 Share #6 Posted May 15, 2007 I think I like knowing less and less about the internet. RSS? Jeeze, sounds like subscriptions for subscriptions. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
earleygallery Posted May 15, 2007 Share #7 Posted May 15, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) My brain hurts! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spylaw4 Posted May 16, 2007 Author Share #8 Posted May 16, 2007 How stupid is it to ask what on earth an RSS feed subscription button is? I am perfectly aware what an RSS feed is. However, these appeared with no apparent announcement as to their purpose, and one must admit that to "wong", furl", or "digg" a post are obscure names and hardly obvious actions! Likewise "thecnoratie" and "del.icio.us" So we can mark these down as *useless/*useful (*delete as appropriate) - but certainly ignorable. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
masjah Posted May 16, 2007 Share #9 Posted May 16, 2007 OMG! In times past I could write programmes in Elliott Autocode, ALGOL, PASCAL, and even manage a bit of DOS. But this is incomprehensible. Another lot to cross off my list. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted May 16, 2007 Share #10 Posted May 16, 2007 The little buttons at the bottom, link the page to publicly accessible bookmark sites. RSS feeds are something entirely different. I have been a net user for over 10 years, and I have never used one of these sites. Others' experience may vary... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
milsu Posted May 16, 2007 Share #11 Posted May 16, 2007 From Wikipedia: RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated digital content, such as blogs, news feeds or podcasts. Users of RSS content use software programs called "feed readers" or "feed aggregators". The user subscribes to a feed by entering a link of the feed into the reader program. The reader can then check the user's subscribed feeds to see if any of those feeds have new content since the last time it was checked, and, if so, retrieve that content and present it to the user. The initials "RSS" are variously used to refer to the following standards: Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0) Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0) RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9 and 1.0) RSS formats are specified in XML (a generic specification for data formats). RSS delivers its information as an XML file called an "RSS feed," "webfeed," "RSS stream," or "RSS channel". Regards, Bill Like WHAT?!? Balalaika. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted May 16, 2007 Share #12 Posted May 16, 2007 If you have an RSS enabled browser (all the Mac ones are, to my knowledge, but this Internet Explorer on this PC isn't), you can subscribe to RSS producing sites, and have all the latest headlines or whatever appear in a drop down list. At home, I have the BBC site on my toolbar, and can drop straight into a news item, without having to go to the BBC site first. It is a very good technology. This site provides a list of all the new posts, via a drop down list. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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