Class 2 we discussed about the history of technology originating to the stone age to 21st century. Like anything else in life, technology, speed and processes have evolved for the better over time allowing more efficiencies and elimination of working people. An example of what's been around overtime is RSS, but up until Wed. I didn't know what it stood for yet alone what it was.
What is RSS?
Name- RSS (Really Simple Syndication)
Comparable Technology- Google Reader - It is a web-based aggregator, capable of reading Atom and RSS feeds online or offline. It was released by Google on October 7, 2005 through Google Labs. Reader graduated from beta status on September 17, 2007 (taken from Google Reader site)
What is it? It allows you to take newsfeeds, headlines, websites, blogs, etc from different urls and feed it to your website. Timely updates in one place.
What problem is it designed to solve? Instead of accessing a gazillion websites to read your news, blogs, etc, they come to you! Very time efficient.
Pros- Easier to access, one stop location. They benefit readers who want to subscribe to timely updates from favored websites or to aggregate feeds from many sites into one place
Cons- web savy, can’t label items automatically based on past choices. You cannot annotate items. Similar news stories from different sources.
I love it!
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