RSS initially stood for Rich Site Summary but is most commonoly referred to as Really Simple Syndication. RSS is used primarly to make content available through web syndication and weblogs. RSS is used when a web author wishes to allow other web sites to publish some of its content. Syndicated content includes such data as news feeds, events listings, news stories, headlines, project updates, excerpts from discussion forums or even corporate information.

   Originally developed by the Netscape Corporation in 1999 for use on the My Netscape portal, development and maintenance of RSS was taken over by Userland Software and now resides with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at the Harvard law School.

   RSS files are created using the Extensible Markup Language (XML) and conform to the RSS 2.0 standard. The standard is made available under the terms of the Attribution/Share Alike Creative Commons license.

    To receive RSS feeds a feed reader or aggregator is used. The reader checks for RSS enabled content and displays any updated content that is found. Feeds on a web page are typically linked to with the letters or icon XML () or RSS ()

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