This little orange button forces me to write the second web post and now I am having the determination to post at least once in a day.  It seems to be blogs are going to be part of our routine life. This thought came to my mind after viewing Windows Live Beta tool bar and the website of Windows live ideas. Blog it, spaces, RSS feeds, podcasts…all these words are going to be familiar for us like e-mail, chat..etc…It is already available for the net users since quite long time, but the popularity of these things will be in peak after the release of Windows Vista. Please note one thing before making any comment on my aforementioned comments...My view on these matters as a dummy / an ordinary person who has limited knowledge on this matter. However, I have gathered some information on web feeds that might be interested for my dear friends those are new to this….

·         Web Feed:  Unlike conventional sites which rarely change their contents, blogs (online journal) are usually updated frequently. In order to keep up with what's happening on blogs, there are 'web feeds'. 'Feed readers' take the content from selected blogs and deliver it to you, all in one place. This means you can scan and select new and updated material without checking blogs all the time. Web feeds are just a special kind of web page, designed to be read by computers rather than people. They deliver new stuff directly to you as soon as it is published online. You can subscribe to receive new stories and headlines instantly, rather than having to look for the latest updates online. The 'news' can be any kind of content - articles, essays, images, music, video... Subscribing to web feeds is also known as 'syndication' or 'aggregation'.

• Keeping up-to-date with the information you want can be a drag. With feeds, you get the latest news and features delivered directly to you as it happens, without clicking from site to site.
• You can browse headlines from lots of different sites in one place.
• Unlike getting website updates by email, there's no email address involved with feeds; so there's no email marketing, no spam, no viruses, no phishing, no identity theft.
• If you want to stop receiving news, you don’t have to send an 'unsubscribe' request; one click and the subscription is gone immediately.
• On Web pages, web feeds (RSS or Atom) are typically linked with the word "Subscribe", an orange rectangle (see the picture beside title), or with the letters XML or RSS. Many news aggregators such as My Yahoo publish subscription buttons (+MY YAHOO) for use on Web pages to simplify the process of adding news feeds.
• RSS is also beginning to be used as the delivery system of choice for sending desktop alerts