News Feeds From Activeminds Software Ltd.

WHAT ARE RSS NEWS FEEDS?

RSS news feeds allow you to see when websites have added new content. You can get the latest articles in one place, as soon as its published, without having to visit the websites you have taken the feed from.

There is some discussion as to what RSS stands for, but most people use 'Really Simple Syndication'. In essence, the feeds themselves are just web pages, designed to be read by computers rather than by people.

HOW DO I START USING FEEDS?

The latest versions of most web browsers, including Internet Explorer 7, Firefox, Opera and Safari, automatically check for feeds for you when you visit a website, and display an icon when they find one. This makes subscribing to feeds very easy. The normal icon used is the orange square with what looks like sound waves in.

If you don't have a browser that directly supports news feeds, then the first thing you need is something called a news reader. This is a piece of software that checks the feeds and lets you read any new articles that have been added. There are many different versions of news readers. If you need to find a news reader, we suggest you Google for "RSS News Reader".

Browser-based news readers let you catch up with your RSS feed subscriptions from any computer, whereas downloadable applications let you store them on your main computer, in the same way that you either download your e-mail using Outlook, or keep it on a web-based service like Hotmail.

Once you have chosen a news reader, all you have to do is to decide what content you want it to receive. If you click on the RSS news feeds button on Activeminds blog sites you can subscribe to the feed in various ways, including by dragging the URL of the feed into your news reader or by cutting and pasting the same URL into a new feed in your news reader.

USING ACTIVEMINDS NEWS FEEDS ON YOUR OWN WEB SITE

If you run your own web site, you can display the latest headlines from the Activeminds' web site on your own site using RSS.

We encourage the use of Activeminds' News feeds as part of a web site, however, we do require that the proper format and attribution is used when Activeminds content appears. The attribution text should read "Activeminds Software Ltd.". You may not use the Activeminds logo on your own web site.