You can use a personalized google homepage to catch new information from your favorites websites adn web pages. Or you can use your personalized yahoo home page to do the same. These free information gathering services, site or programs are called "readers." They are also call personal new aggregators or new aggregators.

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+ wikipedia's definition of rss
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