Many RSS feed readers are web-based – you don’t actually have to install anything on your desktop, or even use your own system. Just go online in the internet cafe or the library or on your own computer and you can read any feed you want to. My Yahoo, Bloglines, NewsGator and MyFeedster are some of the popular web-based feed readers, and they’re free. Set up an account at no charge and go feed surfing.

If you set up your own RSS feed, and then tell My Yahoo about it, you’ll wind up with a listing in the Yahoo search engine (which would otherwise be much more difficult to get). I show you how to set it up in my Free RSS Resources E-book.

There are hundreds of desktop-based feed readers out there, and many web-based readers as well. I have a list of RSS feed readers on my website to get you started.

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Today, the Firefox web browser and its email companion Thunderbird, which are the open-source successors of Netscape from Mozilla, come with an RSS feed reader built into the 1.0 release. They also run on most OS platforms. Microsoft is playing catch-up. MS Internet Explorer has no RSS feed reader capability. But you just know it will, and soon. Microsoft sees the potential of RSS and how it’s taking hold across the web. They see Mozilla trying to take the new browser market away from them again. When that happens, anyone who’s not taking full advantage of RSS for their business or personal promotion will be left in the dust. Even if Microsoft enforces a new RSS standard, everyone else will support it, because of the sheer size of the Microsoft-based market. That’s just how it is.

If you don’t already have Firefox and Thunderbird, download the latest releases here. The Mozilla website says they have been downloaded more than 25 million times already. Every month that Microsoft announces a new swarm of security patches for Internet Explorer and Outlook, thousands more switch to Mozilla’s excellent products.

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Implementing RSS technology today will give you a critical edge over your slow-to-adapt competitors. In 2004, not that many people were even aware of RSS feeds, kind of like the old days of the internet, when the web was quietly used and loved by academic researchers but not the general public. But more and more people are hopping on board every day – RSS is poised to be the hottest way to receive regularly-updated information in 2005. It’s certainly the best traffic-building and marketing tool for online businesses today, and should be at the top of your list of tactics.

Big players are moving into this market and ramping up quickly. Yahoo has their own web-based feed reader. Mozilla (creators of Netscape) built feed-reading into their new Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email client. You just know the next version of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser will be able to read feeds too. Google acquired the Blogger blog service. AskJeeves recently acquired Bloglines. Microsoft has MSN Spaces, their own blog service. Are you excited about RSS feeds yet?

Now’s the time to get involved, before today’s free feed directories, blog directories and podcast directories become saturated and expensive. Get everything in place now and you’ll be ready when the huge wave of traffic hits, when RSS feeds move from the early adopters to the masses, just like email, websites and blogs did in the past.

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RSS is the new wave of internet publishing, redefining online communication. Simply put, it’s a standard for publishing regularly-updated content (news headlines, blog posts, press releases, audio and video content, the possibilities are endless) on the web. Consumers select and read the content of their choice at their leisure with RSS feed readers (either web-based or installed on a local system). The feed reader collects a consumer’s favorite feeds together in one place, making the titles and summaries of individual articles, along with links to the actual articles and the websites they’re hosted upon, available as soon as they’re published.

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