What is RSS?
RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication" -- it's a format for distributing and gathering content from sources across the Web, including newspapers, magazines, and blogs.

Web publishers use RSS to easily create and distribute news feeds that include links, headlines, and summaries. Mobile Africa now delivers updated online content via RSS.

Mobile Africa offers dozens of RSS feeds you can read in My Yahoo! or using third-party RSS news reader software.

What kind of content does Mobile Africa syndicate via RSS?
Mobile Africa is offering three feeds in the RSS format. The feeds are free of charge to use for individuals and non-profit organizations for non-commercial use. Attribution (included in each feed) is required.

News:
Articles:
Forum:

What are the terms of use?
The feeds are provided free of charge for use by individuals and non-profit organizations for personal, non-commercial uses. We ask that you provide attribution to Mobile Africa in connection with your use of the feeds.

If you provide this attribution in text, please use: "Mobile Africa " If you provide this attribution with a graphic, please use the Mobile Africa logo that we have included in the feed itself.

We reserve all rights in and to the Mobile Africa logo, and your right to use the Mobile Africa logo is limited to providing attribution in connection with these RSS feeds.

Mobile Africa also reserves the right to require you to cease distributing these feeds at any time for any reason.

How can I use RSS?
Typical applications for consuming or using RSS include:

• Using a program known as a News Aggregator to collect, update and display RSS feeds
• Incorporating RSS feeds into weblogs

News Aggregators (also called news readers) will download and display RSS feeds for you. A number of free and commercial News Aggregators are available for download. Popular news readers include AmphetaDesk, NetNewsWire, and Radio Userland.

Many aggregators are separate, "stand-alone" programs such as those listed above; other services will let you add RSS feeds to a Web page. Yahoo! lets you add RSS feeds to your My Yahoo! page; to make this easier, you can click on the "Add to My Yahoo!" button to the right of each link above.

Another way many people use RSS feeds is by incorporating content into weblogs, or "blogs". Blogs are web pages comprised of usually short, frequently updated items and web links. Blogging as a publishing tool is used for many purposes: traditional journalism, personal journals, group discussions around a topic, and many combinations in-between.