About Tafri
Really Simple Syndication
How does it work?
First we crawl websites for RSS feeds, or get the url's from people
that enter feeds in the suggestion form after that the work is done
by Cindy.
Cindy isn't a real person but a RSS spider created by us to
index RSS, Atom and OPML feeds. This robot or sometimes called spider,
indexes the feeds and tries to categorize it within the directory.
The following items are saved in our database name, description, RSS
version, language, image, siteurl and feed URL/URI. After the indexing
is done it's reviewed by one of our moderators, to ensure the quality
of the database, it is entered within the directory.
This isn't beeing
done in realtime, but this happens whenever we deside to make an update.
All search results are cached to speed up the process of searching.
What is RSS?
RSS is a mechanism used to distribute news content without depending on the browser or email client. Not everyone agrees precisely what RSS stands for, but “Really Simple Syndication” is a popular choice.
What are the advantages of RSS?
In general it means time savings because, thanks to RSS, you stay ahead of what’s new without having to browse every site you normaly visit. An RSS reader aggregates the content for you to view in one place, this saves time and brings you the content like when you're reading a newspaper with the advantage to view only headlines. You're in control of which articles you want to read.
RSS validators
- RSS 0.9x Validator - An online validator for UserLand's 0.9x RSS.
- RSS Validator - This multi-function validator validates 0.9x through 2.0, but it's optimized for RSS 2.0.
- W3C RDF Validation Service - You can either paste in your RDF file or type in a URI.
- Experimental RSS 1.0 Validator - Use this online validator to validate your RSS 1.0 feeds.
- Redland RSS 1.0 Validator and Viewer - This is an easy validator to use that validates RSS 1.0 fles.
