This ppt contains information about RSS as in content syndication. It also deals with the various RSS aggregators available and the benefits of RSS Feeds to visitors and subscribers.

1. Content Syndication RSS Aggregators and Benefits to Visitors. By: Vivek Agrawal

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3. Content Syndication Syndication is a way of supplying material so that others can reuse or integrate them with other material. Content Syndication is all about syndicating content. This means you supply your content to others which they use, reformat it and supply further ahead to the next level or readers.

5. RSS Aggregators RSS Aggregators are software programs that allow you to subscribe to RSS feeds and then read the updates. There are numerous RSS aggregators present at your service. They can be distinguished by the services and ease of use and access they provide.

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7. Google Reader Google Reader is a powerful online RSS feed aggregator. Apart from displaying the new feeds, it allows you to share feed posts with your friends, find out the most popular feeds, keep track of what you have read and what not, etc.

8. Bloglines Bloglines is a free online news aggregator. It allows you to subscribe to RSS feeds of your choice. It offers many ways by which you can organize and manage your RSS feed subscription.

9. Sharp Reader Sharp Reader is a Windows based free RSS/Atom aggregator. It comes with lot many useful features such as threading support which allows you to view connected items together in a threaded fashion feeds settings such as refresh rate and time-out which can be set per feed or per category.

10. Awasu This is yet again a wonderful and a very powerful RSS feed reader with lot many options that others do not posses. The most important feature of this tool is that it allows easy use and manages for both casual and professional users.

11. FreeDemon FreeDemon is a Windows based free RSS feed aggregator that allows you synchronize items between office, home and anywhere else you might go. Most importantly, it allows you to assign tags to various items which make it easy for you to classify and locate items you have previously read.

12. Omea Reader Omea Reader is a free and easy to use windows based RSS Reader and Newsgroup aggregator. To mention one of the wonderful features, this aggregator integrates with the browser so that you can subscribe to feeds as and when you come across directly from the browser

13. Newz Crawler NewzCrawler is a wonderful windows based RSS feed client which retrieves for you news from various sources and displays them to you in views of your choice. It offers you various options such as synchronize, email, search, and many more.

14. BENEFITS OF RSS FEEDS TO VISITORS

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