On the World Wide Web, a web feed (or news feed) is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content. Content distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby allowing users to subscribe a channel to it by adding the feed resource address to a news aggregator client (also called a feed reader or a news reader).

A web feed is your favourite website, delivered to you automatically the way you want it, as soon as it's available, and entirely free. More strictly, it's a chronological ordering of content such as blog posts, pictures, podcast episodes etc, created in such a way that computers can automatically process it and show you what's new.

Web feed is also known as the Syndicate feed or News feed. To access a collection of web feeds, Aggregation is used so that the user can collect all the informations in one spot. Web feeds uses Pull technology to support the user to receive updated contents. Two major Web feed formats are RSS and Atom.

A feed is also known as a “web feed”and the technical term (which you’ll see a lot) is “RSS feed.” A feed contains the latest content in a form that your newsreader appunderstands. (Your newsreader checks the feed automatically, every few hours.) Tons of websites already have feeds,mostly news sites and blogs.