what is the purpose of a feed?

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  1. Adam

    Adam Regular Member

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    I see these on blogs and some photo galleries.. what is it used for?
     
    Adam, Apr 13, 2008
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    what is the prupose of a feed?

    feed are mainly for loyal and regular readers or visitors of sites or blog..
    feeds will carry the updated or new posts or articles...so that the subscribers can read the latest content from the feed reader itself...no need to visit the site or blog for latest or updated content..
    i hope this small clarification is enough...if you want to know more refer wikipedia... :)
    and one more thing the feeds must be full not partial one...
     
    adithya, Apr 13, 2008
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    what is the prupose of a feed?

    it helps people keep up on your site and the more blog or add content the more they keep coming back...like DVR, but in real time and has the latest updates on your site...like for instance, on my blog site the feed would show the blog i wrote about which is about our hosting site....

    :D
     
    thedudleys, Apr 14, 2008
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    what is the prupose of a feed?

    wow thanks for the information... i usually dont mind it when i see one.. but now i know how it works... :D
     
    nightlinker, Apr 15, 2008
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    what is the prupose of a feed?

    yeah didn't know that myself until i work at a internet based company and someone asked me about it...

    :D
     
    thedudleys, Apr 16, 2008
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    what is the prupose of a feed?

    Feeds are just a way for a site to display a small amout of regurlarly updated content into one file (an rss file). Say you have a forum like this, and you want to make each forum a channel... well you just develope a way of storing descriptive data each time someone starts a new topic... and those who are interested in the category(channel such as "Content Management") will be able to keep up with all the new topics without ever having to initialy visit the site. Instead of people thumbing throught topic after topic, they now can directly go to there topic of choice right from there desktop. The purpose of this site(for Adam) isn't just to share ideas, its to make money. So if Adam wants to target specifict people to a topic in which Related Ads are exposed to them, then that raises his potitial pay-per-click income by getting those people there.
     
    Steven, Apr 18, 2008
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  7. spinky.jones

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    thanks steven for nice info... i know now whats the use of feed thanks
     
    spinky.jones, Apr 24, 2008
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