Feed-reader

Feed-reader is necessary for using Web Feeds (a data format utilized for giving users a regularly updated content) as it works like an automated email program with no email address required. The user should subscribe to a certain web feed and will receive updated content every after updating occurs. Feed readers can be online like a webmail account or may be offline. When a web feed is offline, it will be downloaded to the user’s system. They are normally used to personalized home page services like iGoogle or My MSN or My Yahoo in putting contents such as news, weather and stock quotes, and recently a number of mobile web readers arrived in the market. Organizations can use a Web Feed Server to distribute, manage and track the internal and external usage of web feeds by users and groups, behind a firewall.