Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a technology that allows for the sharing of information that is on the web. RSS sends out this information, or news, to a news reader program installed on your desktop.

RSS presents information that is encoded with XML (Extensible Markup Language), a universal format for structured documents and data that makes it is easy to read by other web sites and by these news readers. XML is becoming increasingly important, as more and more data is available to be shared on the web.

Using the news reader program, you can subscribe to different news feeds, which are constantly updated for you, keeping you abreast of the latest news and information that you are interested in seeing. Your news reader becomes the aggregator of all of the subscriptions you’re interested in from various sites all over the Internet, such as research information, news and weather. The news reader eliminates the need for you to visit a series of your favorite web pages and refresh them, since the program does that for you automatically.

The news reader customizes the information you want to see. We hope you will want to see UDaily and that you will include it on your news reader so that every time we post a new news item about the University of Delaware, you will know it.

How do I begin?

To start using RSS, you need a special news reader or aggregator that displays RSS content feeds from the web sites you choose. Many of the various news readers are available free of charge. Most are available as software that you download and install on your computer. Several web-based news readers also are available. You can look at options at the following sites:

RSS News Readers (Google)

RSS News Readers (Yahoo)