Today is the first ever RSS Awareness Day! The organizers (Daily Blog Tips) have asked participants to blog about RSS on May 1, so here’s my contribution.
Now, I know that typically an awareness day is used to highlight a major social problem in the world. So if you’re unfamiliar with RSS you might think that it sounds like an abbreviation for a disease, as in:
Person 1: “Yeah, my dad’s living in a home now. He’s got ESRD.”
Person 2: “My mom just found out she has RSS.”
Person 1: “Oh, I’m so sorry.”
Person 2: “Yeah, she doesn’t have much time.”
But that isn’t the case. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. An RSS document, commonly called a feed, contains either a summary or the full content from a website. You as the user can subscribe to a site’s syndication feed using a feed reader.
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A few weeks back Facebook opened its doors to third-party developers to make applications that would integrate with its new f8 platform. There are now almost 1100 applications floating around for users to add to their profiles. Most of these apps are complete garbage, but a few are worth adding to your profile. Since I spend a scary amount of time on that website it would be remiss of me if I didn’t tell you about the apps which I’ve grown especially fond of.
Before diving into the list let me explain it a little further. These apps aren’t necessarily the best Facebook applications available. I haven’t tried them all, but these are my favorites of the ones I’ve tried. They’re also not the most popular apps out there, but I figure that’s all the more reason to give them a little love. So here they are, in no particular order.
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