XAM RSS

You will find an RSS feed on the XAM Capital website. RSS feeds allow you to stay up to date with the latest news by subscribing to it using a News Reader, such as in My Yahoo! For example, if you would like to use this feed to display XAM Capital's articles, you can add our content by specifying the following as a new feed url in your reader:
http://www.xamcapital.com/stockmarketinvestment/wp-rss2.php.

What is RSS?
For a long time users have been crying out to have the latest news and features delivered directly to you, rather than searching and clicking from site to site. This now comes in the guise RSS feeds. RSS allows you to see when sites from all over the internet have added new content. You can get the latest headlines and articles (or even audio files, photographs or video) in one place, as soon as they are published, without having to remember to visit each site every day.

The process of syndicating content from other websites by displaying RSS feeds is definitely catching on: these services are able to deliver fresh news to users as it happens using "Really Simple Syndication". Not only are the big companies using RSS to get ahead of the competition but smaller firms are also using it to the fullest extent.

A new term, "Web 2.0", is being used to explain a new paradigm for the internet — and refers to what some people see as a second phase of development of the world wide web, including its architecture and applications. As used by its proponents, the phrase refers the transition of websites from isolated information silos to sources of content and functionality, thus becoming a computing platform serving web applications to end users.

How do I start using RSS feeds?
The first thing you need is something called a news reader. This is software that checks RSS feeds and lets you read any new articles that have been added to them. There are many different versions, some of which are accessed using a browser, and some of which are downloadable applications. 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 Yahoo!.

Once you have chosen a news reader, all you have to do is to decide what content you want to receive in your news reader, by finding and subscribing to the relevant RSS feeds. For example, if you would like the latest financial news stories, simply visit www.ft.com, or any other financial news site, and you will notice a red RSS button. This will lead you to a page that lists a number of different financial news feeds. Simply copy and paste the url into your news reader and the feed will then be displayed in plain text.

News Readers
A list of a few popular news readers are: Bloglines, My Yahoo!, Plus Pluck, NewsGator, Newz Crawler, FeedDemon and Newsfire.



One-click subscriptions
To use any of the following web-based News Readers, click on the appropriate button to subscribe to the RSS feed.
      

Using RapidFeeds
You can also add content to your own site by signing up at www.rapidfeeds.com for free. Add all the RSS feeds you want to read into MySite. Then, after adjusting the settings — including colour, column width, display descriptions and number of stories, copy and paste the resulting code into your web page in the programming language of you choice. An example of RSS news for XAM, FT Equity Markets and the FT Asian Equity Market is shown by clicking on the icon below.