In computing, news aggregators , also called feed collectors , feed readers , newsreaders , RSS reader or just aggregator , is a client software or web application that combines syndicated web content such as online newspapers, blogs, podcasts and blogs video (vlogs) in one location for easy viewing. RSS is a synced subscription system. RSS uses an expanded markup language (XML) to compile pieces of information for aggregation in feed readers that display information in a user-friendly interface. Distributed updates may include lists of journal entries, podcasts, videos, and news.
Video News aggregator
Function
Visiting many separate websites regularly to find out if the content on the site has been updated can take a long time. Aggregation technology helps consolidate many websites into a single page that can show new or updated information from multiple sites. Aggregators reduce the time and effort required to regularly check websites for updates, create unique information spaces or personal papers . After subscribing to the feed, the aggregator can check for new content at user-defined intervals and retrieve updates. Content is sometimes described as drawn to customers, as opposed to pushed by email or IM. Unlike multiple receiver push information, the aggregator user can easily unsubscribe from the feed.
RSS uses an expanded markup language (XML) to compile pieces of information for aggregation in feed readers that display information in a user-friendly interface. Before subscribing to RSS, users must install the application "feed reader" or "aggregator" to read the RSS feed. Aggregators provide a view of content consolidation in a single browser view or a desktop app. "Desktop apps offer the advantage of a potentially richer user interface and are able to provide some content even when the computer is not connected to the Internet.The web-based feed reader offers a great convenience that allows users to access the latest feeds from a computer connected to the Internet." Although some applications will have an automated process to subscribe to news feeds, the basic way to subscribe is to simply click the RSS icon and/or text link. Aggregation features are often created on web portal sites, in the web browser itself, in email applications or in application software designed specifically for reading the feed. Aggregators with podcasting capabilities can automatically download media files, such as MP3 recordings. In some cases, this can be automatically loaded onto portable media players (such as iPods) when they are connected to an end-user computer. In 2011, so-called RSS-narrators appeared, which collected text-only news feeds, and converted them into audio recordings for offline listening. Syndicated content to be taken and interpreted by an aggregator is usually provided in the form of RSS or other XML-formatted data, such as RDF/XML or Atom.
Maps News aggregator
History
RSS started in 1999 "when it was first introduced by Internet browsers-Netscape browser". At first, RSS was not an easy-to-use gadget and it took several years to spread. "... the RDF data model that the people in Netscape feels is too complicated for end users." The emergence of RSS began in the early 2000s when the New York Times implemented RSS: "One of the first, most popular sites that offer users the option to subscribe to RSS feeds is the New York Times, and the company's implementation of this format is revered as a 'tipping point' supporting the position of RSS as the de facto standard. "" In 2005, major players in the web browser market began integrating technology directly into their products, including Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla's Firefox and Apple's Safari. " By the end of 2015, according to BuiltWith.com there are 20,516,036 direct websites that use RSS.
Type
Web aggregators collect material from multiple sources to display in one location. They can also process the information after the retrieval for each client. For example, Google News collects and publishes materials independent of customer needs while Awasu is created as an individual RSS tool to control and collect information according to client criteria. There are various software applications and components available to collect, format, translate, and republish XML feeds, demonstration of presentation-independent data.
News aggregation website
News aggregators provide and update information from different sources in a systematic way. "Some news aggregator services also provide update services, where users are updated regularly with the latest news on selected topics." Websites like Google News, Slam Reports, Huffington Post, Fark, Zero Hedge, NewsLookup, Newsvine, World News (WN) Network and Daily Beast where aggregation is fully automated, using algorithms that perform contextual analysis and group similar stories together, while other websites automatically add RSS news feeds from leading news and leading news outlets, while including their own articles in a separate section of the website.
News aggregation websites begin with content selected and entered by humans, while an automatic selection algorithm is finally developed to fill content from a variety of automatically selected sources or manually added. Google News launched in 2002 using automatic story selection, but humans can add sources to their search engines, while the older Yahoo News, in 2005, uses a combination of automatic news crawler and human editor.
Web-based feed reader
The web-based feed reader lets users find web feeds on the internet and add them to their feed readers. Online feed readers include Bloglines, Feedly, Inoreader, Facebook News Feed, Flipboard, Digg, News360, My Yahoo !, NewsBlur, Netvibes and Tiny Tiny RSS. It is intended for private use and hosted on a remote server. Since this app is available over the web, it can be accessed anywhere by users with an internet connection. There are even more web-based RSS readers. For example, news aggregators made for scientists: "Michael Imbeault, HIV researcher at Università © Laval in Quebec, launched his fully automated website called" e! Science News ".
More sophisticated methods for collecting feeds are provided through Ajax coding techniques and XML components called web widgets. From full applications to small fragments of source code that can be integrated into larger programs, they allow users to merge OPML files, email services, documents, or feeds into one interface. Many customizable homepages and portal implementations provide such functionality.
In addition to aggregator services primarily for individual use, there are web applications that can be used to combine multiple blogs into one. One of these varieties - called planet sites - is used by online communities to combine community blogs in a centralized location. They are named based on Planet aggregators, server applications designed for this purpose.
Application feed reader
The feed aggregation app is installed on a PC computer, smart phone or tablet and is designed to collect subscriptions of news and subscription interests and group them together using a user-friendly interface. The graphical user interface of the app is often very similar to popular e-mail clients, using a three-panel composition where subscriptions are grouped in a frame on the left, and each entry is crawled, selected, and read in a frame on the right. Some important examples include NetNewsWire, Flipboard, Prismatic, and Zite.
Aggregator software can also take the form of news tickers that scroll through feeds such as ticker tapes, alerters that display updates on windows when refreshed, web browser macro tools or as smaller components (sometimes called plugins or extensions), which can integrate feeds into the system operations or software applications such as web browsers. Client applications include Mozilla Thunderbird, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Office Outlook, iTunes, FeedDemon and many others.
Social news aggregator
One example of a social news aggregator is Digg.com. This website collects the most popular stories on the Internet, selected and edited and proposed by various people. "In this social news aggregator, users submit news (referred to as" stories "), communicate with colleagues through direct messages and comments, and collectively select and collect stories submitted to obtain real-time compilation of what is currently regarded as" Hot "and popular on the internet." Social news aggregators are based on community engagement. Their responses, engagement levels, and contribution to the story build the content and determine what will be generated as an RSS feed. Some examples of social news aggregators: Reddit.com, ForensicFocus, Hacker News, etc. More about social news aggregators: Social Networking Aggregation
A personalized news collector
Personalized newsletters such as NewsPrompt and CityFalcon collect user search history and recommend articles that users may be interested in based on their profile. Browser extensions provide the best platform for personalized news aggregators because they can capture their entire browsing history compared to links they've viewed on individual sites or apps. Other news aggregators like Google News or Flipboard try to provide some level of personalization in this way.
Biased and aware media-aware
Media bias and Framing (social sciences) are concepts that fundamentally explain deliberate or unintentional differences in news coverage. A simple example is media coverage in two countries, which are in conflict (armed) with others: one can easily imagine that news outlets, especially if controlled by the state, will report differently or even otherwise on the same event (see eg Ukraine crisis ). While media and framing biases have been the subject of many decades of social research in social science, only recent methods and systems have been proposed for analyzing and demonstrating those differences. Such systems make use of text features, for example, NewsCube is a news aggregator that extracts key phrases that describe a topic differently, or other features; for example, matrix-based news aggregation includes a matrix over two dimensions, such as where the article has been published first) and in which country they report (second dimension).
Media aggregators
Media aggregators are sometimes referred to as podcatcher due to the popularity of the podcast term used to refer to web feeds that contain audio or video. A media aggregator is a client software or a web-based application that retains subscriptions to feeds that contain audio or video media attachments. They can be used to automatically download media, play media in the application interface, or synchronize media content with portable media players. Multimedia aggregators are the focus of the moment. The EU launched the Reveal It project to embed various media platforms within the RSS system. "Integrated infrastructure that will allow users to capture, store, index semantics, categorize and retrieve multimedia, and multilingual digital content across multiple sources - TV, radio, music, web, etc. The system will allow users to personalize services and will have semantic search, retrieval, summarization. "
Broadcatching
"Broadcatching is a promising mechanism for enhancing the BitTorrent user experience by automatically downloading advertised files via RSS feeds." Some BitTorrent client software applications such as Azureus ,? Torrent has added the ability to broadcast torrents from multimedia distributed through web feed aggregation. Broadcatching is an ervise for the smart TV era. "Broadcatching is the act of downloading TV for viewing on your computer." Files downloaded from BitTorrent must be read by the DiVX-specific screening tool.
Filter feeding
One of the problems with news aggregators is that article volumes can sometimes be overwhelming, especially when users have many web feed subscriptions. As a solution, many feed readers allow users to tag each feed with one or more keywords that can be used to sort and filter available articles into easy-to-navigate categories. Another option is to import a user's Attention Profile to filter an item based on its relevance to the user's interest.
RSS and marketing
Some bloggers predict the death of RSS when Google Reader is turned off. Later, however, RSS is considered more successful as an interesting way to get information. "Feedly, possibly the most popular RSS reader today, has gone from around 5,000 paid subscribers in 2013 to about 50,000 paid subscribers in early 2015 - that's a 900% increase for Feedly in two years." Customers use RSS to get information more easily while businesses take advantage of being able to spread announcements. "RSS serves as a submission mechanism for websites to drive online content to potential users and as an aggregator of information and filters for users." However, it has been shown that to encourage push content RSS should be user-friendly to ensure proactive interaction so users can stay engaged without feeling "stuck", good design to avoid overwhelmed by obsolete data, and optimize for desktop use and mobile. RSS has a positive impact on marketing because it contributes to better search engine rankings, to build and maintain brand awareness, and increase site traffic.
See also
- Associated Press v. Meltwater
- The comparison of the feed collector
- Web syndication technology history
- Lifestreaming
- Metasearch engine
- Web feeds
References
External links
- Feed Readers in Curlie (based on DMOZ)
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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