Zach and Evan ask about what in the world an RSS feed is. Why would they need to use Really Simple Syndication? Gigi explains they can bring the web right to their computers instead of emails, enewsletters, or checking back on websites.


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Female Speaker: Now, you guys don't use email, do you? Child: Yes. Child: Of course no. Female Speaker: You do, what do you do with email? Child: Check my emails, send the emails. Female Speaker: From, to, who? Child: People I know. Female Speaker: You get newsletters and stuff, do you ever put your name down, I want to get a newsletter? Child: No. Oh, I also get it from Delta Airlines. Female Speaker: You get a newsletter from Delta Airlines for what? Child: So when I am in airplane once and now they have been sending me like a million email messages. Female Speaker: Wow! You don't do any of that, do you? Child: No, of course not. Female Speaker: You probably get some things too. You don't have to give your email address to things, number one, and sometimes it's nice to have a junk email address. But I want to show you something else. I want to show you something really interesting, really simple. Child: Simpleness. Female Speaker: Simpleness. We are going to look at RSS. Do you know what an RSS is? Child: No. Female Speaker: I bet you do, and you don't know that you do. Have you ever seen that before? Child: No. Child: No, never before. Female Speaker: You have never seen that before. I bet you have. Child: No, I haven't. Female Speaker: It's a feed icon. Do you know what a feed is? Child: No idea. Child: No. Female Speaker: That is a symbol for really simple syndication, also know as RSS. Child: What's a syndication? Child: Yeah, what's a Syndication? Female Speaker: What is syndication? Okay, let's say we go to a website you really like. I am assuming it's not going to be the one I am going to take you to, I am going to take you to the New York Times. Child: No. Child: Eww. Female Speaker: Eww, what do you mean eww? Okay, what would be a non-eww site? Child: MySpace, its not boring. Female Speaker: Hey, New York Times isn't boring. Child: Yes, it is. Female Speaker: Why is New York Times boring? Child: Because it's about New York. Do we live in New York? No, we live in California. Female Speaker: It's not about New York, it's a newspaper for the world. Right there, thank you. Child: It's a thing. Female Speaker: It's a thing, it's that thing. Child: It's like a giant shock wave. Female Speaker: It is, it's like a little shock wave. Okay, I feel better now, because that's showed up, now I feel much better. So we are on something called Hulu right now. Do you guys know what Hulu is? Child: It has videos and movies and stuff. Female Speaker: It is a company that's owned by News Corp and NBC Universal that shows movies and TV shows. So if I would like to get an RSS feed, which stands for Really Simple Syndication, that all I should have to do is click this, and it's connecting me up to the Really Simple Syndication. So what it did is it took that little button that I pushed, and it took that code off that page, and its now giving me a box in my Yahoo!, because that's how I had my computer setup. So I use My Yahoo! to take in my RSS feeds. I can go to My Yahoo! page and see that updated pages for anything on the web that I have setup RSS. So if I happen to like trains, I could setup an RSS feed from a train site I like. If I have to like Spore, I can use the Spore RSS, that anytime they update that site, it will give me a little bleeps here on my page. So I can now say, I am going to keep it. So I have setup here, come on, keep it. I have setup all these different RSS feeds. So do I have to go to those websites? Child: No. Female Speaker: Only if there is something interesting here, but other than that I get to see here the recently added movies from Hulu. NPR, you can tell I have kind of boring interests. BBC, New York Times. Child: Facebook. Female Speaker: Facebook. So you can have that RSS feed coming from Facebook. Child: What's Facebook? Female Speaker: What's Facebook? It's kind of like MySpace for cooler people. Child: Oh, okay. Female Speaker: It's MySpace for maybe a little older people. Child1: Oh, okay. Female Speaker: Okay. It's very different, but Facebook in many ways has -- its like an RSS feed, but it pulls things from all over the place, and you can go to one place and find out everything. So I can go to one place and know what 200 friends are doing. Child: That's a lot of friends. Female Speaker: Here -- that's a lot of friends? It's kind of an okay number of friends. Do you have 200 friends? Child: No. Female Speaker: Do you have 200 friends? Child: Not even close. Female Speaker: Oh, okay, you will get there. Child: No, I won't. Female Speaker: So this I can use, and I can also have other things feed to it, so I have weather feeding to it, and actually, what I am avoiding looking at is I even have my eating trends on it. So I can use My Yahoo!, and in fact, I have it setup so that I do things in all sorts of different spaces. So here in the living section, I actually have a feed that comes in that shows me what movies are going on.